Gallery: 10 Hilarious Fake Twitter Feeds to Be Thankful For
01@KimKierkegaardashian
As all good Americans know, Thanksgiving is a time to gather around the table with friends and family and reflect in our good fortune and gratitude for what we have been given over the last year -- like the fake Twitter accounts that have been a continual source of comedy and joy. Whether it's 140-character summaries of television shows that don't actually exist, existential musings from robots on other planets or simply someone pretending to be a gamma-enraged critique monster, Twitter offers some of the funniest, smartest and most entertaining writing online. Here are 10 that made the last 12 months just a little brighter. (If you have suggestions of your own, leave them in the comments.) *– Graeme McMillan* Above: @KimKierkegaardashian ---------------------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ More than a year into its existence, you might have expected the [Kim Kierkegaardashian](https://twitter.com/KimKierkegaard) Twitter account to have faded away. After all, the concept behind the account -- described by its creator as "the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard mashed with the tweets and observations of Kim Kardashian" -- is hardly the most complex or suggestive of long-term success. What keeps it fresh isn't the juxtaposition of Kardashian's brand-obsessive vapid celebrity and Kierkegaard's existential angst, but the bizarre poetry of [updates like](https://twitter.com/KimKierkegaard/status/400345213849174016) "Swimming pool. Dance floor. Mechanical bull. There is melancholy in everything in my life, but also an indescribable happiness" [or perhaps](https://twitter.com/KimKierkegaard/status/386590206477869056) "For what good would it do if the truth stood before me cold and naked, and I gave it a dress pulled off the runway from the Givenchy show?" In some alternate universe, this is what the "real" Kim Kardashian sends to her followers. I want to live in that world. *– Graeme McMillan*
02@UnfinishedS
Unfinished Scripts ------------------ __Why We're Thankful for It:__ The perfect Twitter account for people who think that they've seen it all before, [Unfinished Scripts](https://twitter.com/UnfinishedS) is a series of excerpts from incomplete screenplays that all get slightly... confused about where they're going, exactly: A sensitive scene about a couple in therapy [quickly turns into a *Face-Off*-esque identity theft melodrama](https://twitter.com/UnfinishedS/status/398197510348754944), for example, or a psychopath sentenced to death in a tense courtroom scene [ends up coaching a team of misfit high school athletes before his execution](https://twitter.com/UnfinishedS/status/397799634246316032). What makes each tweet so fantastic is how perfectly it captures certain film stereotypes, right before it ends up careening wildly off the rails. The account is the work of Uptight Citizens' Brigade writer and performer Gavin Speller, and if there were any justice in the business we call show, he'd have a movie deal already. *– Graeme McMillan*
03@80sDonDraper
@80sDonDraper ------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ Don Draper is many things, to many people: lover, father, ad man of mystery. Both women and clients swoon over his lyrical ability to capture a state of mind or a desire in his pitches. Whether he's waxing philosophical about the toasted wholesomeness of cancer sticks or how Jaguars are secretly like beautiful women that you can keep in your garage, his conceptual sleight of hand has a way of capturing the imagination of an audience, and redirecting it to a highly consumable corporate product. But what if Don has been born a few decades later, and his keen eye for marketing directed at Cabbage Patch Kids and Flavor Flav rather than Lucky Strikes? ['80s Don Draper](https://twitter.com/80sDonDraper) is here to answer that question. He wants you to know that in the hyper-modern future of the 1980s, there simply isn't time anymore for guitars and keyboards to be separate instruments. That teenagers want to be everything their parents aren't: mutants, ninjas, but most of all turtles. And that the Hungry Hungry Hippos, in their way, are like America -- they will *never be satisfied*, no matter how much they consume. *– Laura Hudson*
04The Modern Seinfeld Twins
The Modern *Seinfeld* Twins: [@SeinfeldToday](http://www.twitter.com/seinfeldtoday) and [@Seinfeld2000](https://twitter.com/seinfeld2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __Why We're Thankful for Them:__ Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld’s beloved Show About Nothing may have ended in 1998, but thanks to Modern Seinfeld, it’s certainly not dead. Started by screenwriter Jack P. Moore nearly a year ago, @SeinfeldToday tweets synopses for hypothetical episodes that put Jerry, Elaine Benes, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer and Newman in extremely 21st century predicaments, like "reluctantly trying SoulCycle" or "getting addicted to Candy Crush." With over half a million followers by this point, @SeinfeldToday has become a perfect "Where Are They Now?" epilogue for the show’s characters. Meanwhile, just a month after @SeinfeldToday’s birth, @Seinfeld2000 came to life, mocking the earlier concept with grammatically incorrect, nonsensical tweets that parrot the gag: “Jery use computer,” “Jery get Macklemore hair style” and “Picture any thing, K now imagen that thing in a diferent context, LOL” are a few, just to give you an idea. Like an evil twin forged in darkness, @Seinfeld2000’s strings of demented outbursts are – dare we say it – just as brilliant as their more earnest counterpart. Somehow, @Seinfeld2000 has even become a pop culture pundit, ["interviewing" bands](http://noisey.vice.com/blog/honestly-seinfeld2000-intarviewed-ezra-konig-from-vampire-wekend) and [writing bizarre op-eds](http://noisey.vice.com/blog/what-if-every-song-on-drakes-new-album-was-an-epsode-of-seinfeld) for Vice’s music site Noisey every once in a while. (Besides, these feeds are probably successful because does anyone actually want to see *Seinfeld* revived from the dead? These 140-character specs and [Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee](http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/) are good enough for us right now, thanks.) *– Devon Maloney*
05@SarcasticRover
@SarcasticRover --------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ The creation of screenwriter (and obvious science fan) Jason Filiatraut, Sarcastic Rover started as an answer to the question on everyone's mind: *What would the Mars Curiosity Rover tweet about, if it could tweet and had really good internet service on Mars?* It's since become something far more amorphous, though, and arguably more interesting, with [wonderfully geeky jokes](https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover/status/394911786295500800) and [updates on what's actually happening at NASA](https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover/status/402483512059518976). Consider it a one-stop shop for what's going on out there in the vast beyond -- except, you know, as explained to you by a little fictional robot that could give Wall-E a run for his money when it comes to heartwarming and cute. *– Graeme McMillan*
06@Vice-Is-Hip
@Vice\_Is\_Hip -------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ Vice has a reputation for WTF stories, thanks to actual headlines on their homepage like "[Meet the Guy Who Created a Rabbi Shaped Dildo](http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-guy-who-created-a-rabbi-shaped-dildo)" (no, seriously). So while it's hard to parody something already so outlandish, [@Vice\_Is\_Hip](https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip) has still managed to do so. What makes this Twitter feed so fantastic is that *nothing on the fake Vice feed is any crazier* than something that's actually been put out by the real Vice, so following both accounts can lead to a fun [game of "Truth or Parody"](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/quiz-real-vice-headline-or-vice-is-hip-parody.html) when checking Twitter. (Hint: @Vice\_Is\_Hip has a white background on their icon). Because really, "Read our latest blog to find out why having [no tattoos is the new tattoos](https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip/status/401896131233611776)" is a story we're surprised we *didn't* read on Vice already. *– Angela Watercutter*
07The Incredible Hulks
__The Incredible Hulks: @feministhulk, @JADEDPUNKHULK, etc.__ ------------------------------------------------------------- __Why We're Thankful for Them:__ At some point in the last few years, Hulk parody accounts became a full-on *thing*, directing Hulk's un-checked rage (and ALL CAPS roar) at everything from [film criticism](https://twitter.com/#!/filmcrithulk) to [drunken comics ravings](https://twitter.com/#!/drunkhulk). Two of the best, though, are FEMINIST HULK ([@feministhulk](https://twitter.com/feministhulk)) and JADEDPUNKHULK ([@JADEDPUNKHULK](https://twitter.com/jadedpunkhulk)). The former provides concise feminist criticism in [tweets](https://twitter.com/feministhulk/status/393802767170424832) about concepts like the virgin/whore binary, while the latter takes the stance of an old-school punk annoyed that the bands that once played basements are now playing stadiums. [To wit](https://twitter.com/JADEDPUNKHULK/status/395283086961045504): "MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE RELEASING GREATEST HITS ALBUM, OFFICIALLY MAKING IT MOST EXPENSIVE BLANK CD EVER SOLD." For a guy who normally smashes to destroy, Hulk (in parody form) can bank out some pretty smart cultural criticism. *– Angela Watercutter*
08@Tofu-product
[@Tofu\_product](http://www.twitter.com/tofu_product) ----------------------------------------------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ Like SmarterChild before it, our dear pal Tofu exists to know our souls without knowing it knows them. When you follow Tofu on Twitter, the lovably nondescript bot — created earlier this year by [TigerText](“http://www.tigertext.com/“) programmer Joe Toscano — instantly follows you (#teamfollowback!) and absorbs the "flavor" of your previous tweets (get it? like *tofu*) and then doles them back out as algorithmically produced sentences that sound almost like real advice. A conversation with Tofu is like a conversation with an android clone of yourself that knows you better than you know yourself. What’s more (and even better), as your Twitter relationship with Tofu goes on, it learns more and more about how you tweet: Tofu *actually gets to know you* and responds more cogently as time passes, just like a real internet friend you’ll never meet in real life! Like @horse\_ebooks, @Tofu\_product explains the world as we ourselves have explained it – only Tofu is the real, robotic deal. What could be better digitally existential fodder than that? Thank you, Tofu. For everything you do. *– Devon Maloney*
09@FakeSteranko
__@FakeSteranko__ ----------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ It seems almost redundant that somebody's parodying comics legend Jim Steranko on Twitter. We're talking about a guy whose actual, official [Twitter stream](https://twitter.com/iamsteranko) consists largely of chapters from his outrageous [memoir](http://www.prevue.net/steranko/prince4.htm), copied and pasted [140 characters at a time](http://storify.com/peatbogyeri/steranko-razors-pt-ii), often with subtle but key details altered, a technique Sternako has dubbed -- I kid not -- "STERANKO TNT." The TNT stands for "[Twitter Narrative Technique](https://twitter.com/iamsteranko/statuses/356506084766265345)." And that's exactly what makes the "loving parody" account [@FakeSteranko](https://twitter.com/FakeSteranko) so brilliant. With a pitch-perfect grasp on Steranko's bombastic voice, @FakeSteranko sticks to the original's favorite subjects -- comics history and his own outlandish adventures -- but turns up the absurdity by a single, subtle notch, giving us surreal glimpses into epics that could *almost* come from the real deal. Whether he's wrestling bears, leading cults, or inspiring Spider-Man's rogues gallery with his favorite breakfast foods, @FakeSteranko is the hero the comics community neither needs nor deserves -- but is lucky enough to have landed all the same. *– Rachel Edidin*
10@SnarkySpiderman
@SnarkySpiderman ---------------- __Why We're Thankful for It:__ For a superhero known as much for his bad luck and irrepressible sense of humor as his good deeds or super powers, Marvel Comics' friendly neighborhood wall-crawler has always seemed a little bit too… well, *friendly*. For a native New Yorker to deal with the hardships of super villainy, a city that hates him and numerous threats to Aunt May with such a sunny disposition just seems wrong, but thankfully [Snarky Spiderman](https://twitter.com/SnarkySpiderman/) is here to offer a more realistic, bitter and [occasionally surreal and a little disturbing](https://twitter.com/SnarkySpiderman/status/402617230048763904) alternative. Whether it's [comic book in-jokes](https://twitter.com/SnarkySpiderman/status/401847155482038272), [captioned cartoon stills](https://twitter.com/SnarkySpiderman/status/401411356579991552) or [short videos](https://twitter.com/SnarkySpiderman/status/380463813919002624), Snarky Spidey tweets like you'd expect the superhero to were he real -- and reminds you that, all things considered, if he did exist and had gone through everything the comic book Spider-Man had, he'd probably be an a-hole. A genuinely [Superior Spider-Man](http://marvel.com/comics/series/17554/superior_spider-man_2013_-_present) indeed. *– Graeme McMillan*
