In our short time of covering the happenings of the wild world of Twitter dot com, we’ve documented quite a few tweets that have caused some type of controversy. Thinking back to moments like Nell Scovell opining on tornadoes in Kentucky, Pete Dominick’s awful take, and Jason Nguyen’s tweet about his ‘journalism’, several tweets in a given year will stand above others when it comes to being either uniquely bad, wrong, dishonest, etc. While 2023 has had quite a few tweets that many would consider ‘bad’, political talk show host David Pakman may have just raised (or lowered) the bar with his recent tweets surrounding the tragedy that took place in Nashville. Between the actual tweet itself, his replies and follow-up tweets about it, the subsequent deletion of several other tweets, and more, Pakman’s ‘bad tweet’ differed greatly from others we previously mentioned.
Who is David Pakman?
A name people outside of Twitter are probably not familiar with, Pakman is somewhat unique when compared to other Blue Checks we’ve written about. Based on the tone of his tweets alone, we originally thought he was a Krassenstein-esque ‘current thing’ tweeter. As it turns out, Pakman has a YouTube political talk show with over 1 million subscribers, where he masquerades as ‘Progressive’ for his centrist audience. Thus, it’s fair to say that Pakman IS somewhat successful while also being a relative ‘no-name’.
While it is puzzling how such a bland and unoriginal show gains such a large following, he clearly has to be doing SOMETHING entertaining that we aren’t seeing but to each, their own. As you can see by follower discrepancies, Pakman has nearly 4x the followers on YouTube than he does Twitter.
David Pakman’s Bad Tweet “Timeline”
Unlike most people who post “bad tweets” and delete them shortly after, David Pakman’s tweet was far more eventful. A saga that involved several deletions, numerous Twitter ratios, an entire YouTube video devoted to it, and more, we figured the best way to tell the whole story would be via a timeline. Below the timeline, you will find a gallery that contains several of Pakman’s tweets and others who reacted as well.
No matter how the person voted or what their prevailing views were, everyone seemed to agree that this was an objectively ‘bad’ tweet by Pakman.
Note that he didn’t actually share any messages or emails he claimed he was receiving.
A classic Blue Check “hoax” strategy is to claim that you are receiving hateful messages without actually sharing any. As you can see by the large amount of Quote Tweets and eventual deletion, people weren’t buying it either.
With a large YouTube following of over 1.67 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS, Pakman couldn’t even manage to get more Likes than Dislikes.
The 12,000+ comments on the video weren’t exactly in support of him either.
It is interesting that the company who so strongly supports “free speech”, in their own words, doesn’t want to actually reveal their name. If we didn’t know any better, we’d say Pakman made that “message” up too…
In a series of tweets, Pakman seems to imply that his initial deleted tweet + subsequent attention led to new “fans”, as opposed to trolls who want to comment on upcoming videos of his.
Everyone knows that people with “right-wing” views in 2023 just love Sean Hannity, Trump Jr, and Michael J. Knowles…..
It’s not ‘Cancel Culure’. It’s ‘Accountability Action’. At least that is what Blue Checks have been telling us for years.
In true Blue Check fashion, supposed “progressive” Pakman shifts the topic of conversation to his favorite: Donald Trump.
