Mystique has an entire cottage industry of social media trolling.
Just the other day, video game creator and cartoonist Joffe started wondering what Wolverine would be like with a smartphone. What resulted was a rapid-fire tweetstorm of all the various SCARILY ACCURATE* ways that the X-Men and their assorted mutant/alien/whatever brethren act on social media.
*Although Gambit’s probably a Tumblr obsession more than a Twitter one, but anyway…
There is absolutely no way Wolverine knows how to use a computer. I refuse to believe this.
— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
he heard about how Cyclops has a “surprisingly popular low-key aesthetics instragram” and has angrily been demanding Jubilee make him one too for weeks
— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
Beast creates a LOT of joke twitter bot accounts.
Gambit is the least online of all the X-Men despite his doings often being the subject of huge twitter threads.
Mystique has an entire cottage industry of social media trolling.— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
Jubilee makes vaporwave and is excited about vine 2
Rahne has stumbled into viral stardom for her extremely sincere posting style and is unsure what to make of that
Sunspot replies to every x-woman’s post with “hey girl”
Colossus has made exactly one tweet since 2008— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
Rogue is always exactly one day away from turning her social media presence into full-on southern marxism
Jean Grey is 90% baby animal pics and tweety bird facebook memes
Kitty keeps trying to get Rachel into streaming— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
Spiral has the dankest meme twitter account in existence. It is unsettling to everyone
Sabretooth learned how to use a computer just because he knew Wolverine didn’t
Forge has an unboxing youtube channel
Calisto follows Spiral’s account
So does Magik— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) December 6, 2017
You can jump into this game, too! Emma Frost probably has assistants finely curating her Instagram and Twitter, with endorsements of edgier GOOP-style products on a secondary Pinterest. Doop splits his time between his surreal improvisational Twitch stream and his more cohesive YouTube edits. Forge is KIND OF A BIG DEAL on Stack Exchange and the Maker sub. Glob Herman and Beak both have video game speedrunning streams. Husk moderates several activist subreddits. Storm has verified accounts on Twitter and Facebook where she releases statements regarding political/societal events of the day….
We like this game a lot.
I think I don’t understand social media enough to understand why this is funny or fits with their particular personalities. I’m officially old ;)
@Lisa…thank you! I was feeling sooooo left out of this one!
The Inhumans are on Friendster.
(Except Lockjaw. He has more Facebook followers than George Takei.)
1,2, Oh, adults these days! Maybe we should let you go back to your Acoustic coupler modems and ASCII art.
Magneto just discovered MySpace.
None of them buy new phones when the old ones die, they just wait for them to come back to life on their own.
Colossus only has one tweet because he is on Livejournal.
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If you like this sort of thing, you’ll probably also like Kitty Unpretty‘s DCverse fanfic series “Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts.” It’s got a fair bit of pretty serious examination of how fucked up the inside of Batman’s head must be, but it’s also got a whole bunch of DC superheroes not really getting social media with hilarious consequences. Start with “Anti-Social” and “Bad Publicity”.
Nightcrawler: Fencing tumblr with demo and stunt videos. Posts constantly during Olympics, occasional funny Catholic memes. Has second account for skincare blog focusing on mutants with fur and scales, no one else knows it’s his but Beast and Rahne are followers. Sabretooth is also a follower but he doesn’t have a Tumblr.
The Stepford Cuckoos have separate Twitter accounts but all post nearly the same things and retweet one another constantly.
Meggan has an Instagram that Kitty set up when Captain Britain forgot. Posts photos of Captain Britain and herself with cute animals that she finds/find her. Unintentionally famous “Lifestyle Instagram Model”. Captions all photos with emoji.
Dust has bilingual Twitter and Tumblr accounts mostly to keep in touch with friends but also posts about anti-human trafficking efforts.
Rachel mostly lurks without accounts on a variety of sites. Likes all of her mom’s posts and made Wolverine “forget” his password cause the Phoenix cosplay retweets were getting weird. Pays Mystique to troll Emma’s Twitter.
Squirrel Girl and Gillen and McKelvie’s Young Avengers run, both have a lot of fun with superhero faux-Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr accounts. Both used them as a way of filling in what happened in the previous issue in the main.
Bobby gets all sorts of youtubers to cameo in his videos: trickshots with DudePerfect / acapella singalongs with Peter Hollens, etc.
It’s unclear whether what Jamie Madrox does with his accounts qualifies as sockpuppeting or not.