Hillary’s Tweet Requesting Emoji Responses Predictably Backfires
Between her campaign’s handling of #BlackLivesMatter protesters and its penchant for ignoring or mistreating journalists, Hillary Clinton‘s second run at the presidency is about to get a whole lot worse. And no, I’m talking about the recent email news.
One of Clinton’s latest talking points is college affordability. Keeping this in mind, someone in her campaign probably thought the best way to approach the touchy topic of student loan debt would be via emoji. Yes, that’s right — the colorfully detailed faces and feces strewn throughout social media and text messages.
So they tweeted about it:
How does your student loan debt make you feel? Tell us in 3 emojis or less.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 12, 2015
Needless to say, the response to the latest “hip” tactic of the Clinton campaign is kind of amazing. Mainly because no one is taking it seriously.
The @HillaryClinton campaign has discovered emojis. pic.twitter.com/un70GXlGKy — Danielle Kurtzleben (@titonka) August 12, 2015
Show me on the emoji where the candidate’s tweet hurt you.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 12, 2015
.@HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/CSTDHw1wMN — J. Dana Stuster (@JDanaStuster) August 12, 2015
@HillaryClinton How does finally handing over your server to federal investigators make you feel? Tell us in 3 emojis or less.
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 12, 2015
.@HillaryClinton fewer* — victoria berenstain (@victoriaramirez) August 12, 2015
@HillaryClinton this connects with me as a young person
— jon hendren (@fart) August 12, 2015
.@HillaryClinton is there a “condescended to” emoji — Jennifer Schaffer (@jmschaff) August 12, 2015
@HillaryClinton 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) August 12, 2015
🙎🏼👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👏👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿…………👴🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙎👈🏻😱😱😱😱 how does that feel, in three emojis or fewer, @HillaryClinton? 😏 — Brooklyn Middleton (@BklynMiddleton) August 12, 2015
Yet it wouldn’t be complete without an utterly honest, true-to-form answer:
— Myles Tanzer (@mylestanzer) August 12, 2015
[Image via screengrab]
