A quick thread on "Black Twitter" & #39;s most recently elected President, the parody @MrHandsome_ZA.

A few days ago, @Natz_online pointed out a blatantly fake account to me, pretending to be a white guy and being very obvious about not being that white: https://twitter.com/Natz_online/status/1295249824187588608">https://twitter.com/Natz_onli...

With @TracyZille still in mind, I poked a bit at the account.

I noticed something peculiar. One of the earliest accounts that had followed Ol& #39; Frikkie here had me blocked.

I had never seen nor heard of this account, and it had a pretty solid following.

After some digging, it turns out that this is the same account that was previously named @youranonsa, an account that pretended to be the South African version of Anonymous.

Turns out I had been blocked after this thread: https://twitter.com/jean_leroux/status/1267755916839063552">https://twitter.com/jean_lero...

The account deleted its old tweets and reinvented itself as the @MrHandsome_ZA account in late June/early July.

This is clear from replies (previously sent to @youranonsa) now being directed towards @MrHandsome_ZA as seen in these tweets.

https://twitter.com/Lunga_26/status/1269214017312165891">https://twitter.com/Lunga_26/...

Before that, the account pretended to be an SABC parody account called @SABDNews - searching for that handle also returns tweets directed at @MrHandsome_ZA.

The current profile picture is no doubt stolen from an unsuspecting user on social media.

There might be some more to this cherry, but I& #39;m taking bites out of another (likely associated) account right now https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">