Los Angeles comedian and Vice contributor Josh Androsky discovered a clever way to turn what most would consider a hobby — trolling marginal GOP candidates on Twitter — into actual online activism, the Daily Dot’s Eve Peyser reports.
On August 28th, Androsky informed the world of his plan:
As they often do online, things escalated quickly:
@OhlsenEric @ShutUpAndrosky @PPact Hell, I've decided that I'm going to donate $100 EVERY DAY until he blocks Josh, so he better hurry… 😈
— em dash, pharm.d., et al, etc 🫀🔥🧠(@shelldash) August 29, 2015
Of course, Androsky needed to provide the poor intern manning Ted Cruz’s Twitter account with some block-worthy material:
Eventually, Androsky’s followers learned that the could donate not only in Ted Cruz’s name, but that they could customize their donations, at which point things took a decidedly different turn:
The work @tedcruz and @ShutUpAndrosky are doing to help Planned Parenthood is inspiring!! They've got me hooked! pic.twitter.com/ZKfqt2Mlm6
— Zach Pugh (@ZachPugh) September 3, 2015
As silly as this seems, Androsky told the Daily Dot, it’s for a good cause — or against an evil one, as the case may be. “Ted Cruz is truly evil,” he said. “Why not combat it with targeted silliness?” His goal “is to raise $2,294,642, because that spells out ‘bazinga’ on a phone keypad,” and while it’s highly unlikely he’ll meet that goal, he is starting to get some help from high places:
.@tedcruz wants to defund @PPact and @ShutUpAndrosky is raising $$ for PP by "giving Ted the business". JOIN HIM. https://t.co/XXooMgUuvq
— Tig Notaro (@TigNotaro) September 3, 2015
