The Iowa high school sophomore is doing nothing less than pranking America’s entire electoral process.
What’s the deal with Gotham City-style pranksters popping up in the national discourse lately? I love it.
I’d love to see Deez Nuts team up in some fashion with the Internet troll impersonating Target’s online customer service.
And don’t think that Deez Nuts is too young to be among Batman’s rouges gallery. Anarky was a kid. And the General (Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong) was just eleven years old.
Check out the following article:
“A 15-Year-Old Going by ‘Deez Nuts’ Is Doing Surprisingly Well in the Presidential Polls, by Carlton Ferment, Vice.com, 8/20/15:
His (or her!) modus operandi is actually pretty simple. Anybody can right-click a corporate logo for use as a Facebook profile picture, and then create a false account using a corporate-sounding name and a throwaway cell phone number. (Troublingly enough, spammers are known to do the same thing to impersonate private users, by right-clicking publicly available profile pictures.)
But this guy is the Lex Luthor of trolls, and his antagonism of complaining Target customers achieves the level of online performance art. The controversy into which he’s inserted himself is whether or not Target should have gender-specific sections for children’s toys.
Check out some samples of his pathos via this recent article at Adweek:
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 