Hillary Clinton’s campaign is enduring a fair bit of embarrassment on Twitter after it attempted to embrace the hot new trend of using emojis for everything.
It all started Wednesday afternoon with a Clinton campaign tweet asking Twitter users to describe their feelings about student loans in a series of three emojis:
How does your student loan debt make you feel?
Tell us in 3 emojis or less.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 12, 2015
Things did not go according to plan. While some users embraced the intent of the tweet, most did not, and it was instead hijacked for every conceivable purpose.
Hillary: Ok so tell me about millenials
Advisor: they are being crushed by student debt; they use emojis
Hil: Gotcha https://t.co/1HQj7IB4YX— carrie from prom (@CarriePotter_) August 12, 2015
RT @HillaryClinton How does your student loan debt make you feel?
Tell us in 3 emojis or less. pic.twitter.com/yJmjF1vqJM— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 12, 2015
Not helping was the fact that Clinton’s original tweet bungled its grammar. Rather than “3 emojis or less,” it should have been “3 emojis or fewer,” because emoji is a count noun.
@HillaryClinton fewer, not less. 🙁 🙁 🙁 <– these emoticons brought to you by the tears of good grammar.
— elizabeth tobey (@dahanese) August 12, 2015
Clinton’s Twitter account finally responded to the blow-up in just about the only way it could:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
(But in all seriousness: http://t.co/A4pWb3fOf4) pic.twitter.com/qQBYSnkJZa— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 12, 2015
In truth, Hillary trying to be cool is as pathetic as John Kerry allowing himself to be photographed riding a pink girl’s bike or attempting to talk sports.
This report, by Blake Neff, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
