Comedian Blaire Erskine, who is best known for making MAGA parody videos that are so good they enrage her fellow progressives, turned her attention to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsAppâs major outage on Monday. And she got it up just in time for the social networks to go back online so she could share it.
Posting as a spokesperson for the company, Erskine began with, âWe here at Facebook would just like to say, I thought you deleted Facebook.â
Then, referring to the outcry over the whistleblower who appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night, she added, âWe just think itâs kind of funny that last night everybody was like #DeleteFacebook and then this morning theyâre like #FacebookDown. You know, because which one is it? Did yâall already delete it or is it down? Because it canât be down if you deleted it.â
And in response to everyone hailing âTom from MySpaceâ as the internetâs new hero, she said, âTom left you! Do you think Tom thinks about you now? He doesnât. Heâs a photographer now.â
Finally, she concluded, âGood luck remembering your momâs birthday now, you pieces of shit!â
Erskine, who recently landed a gig writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, got a bit conspiratorial on Monday evening when she told me via Twitter DM that it âjust seemed like such a high school move to makeâ when Facebook went dark the day after they were exposed on such a major platform.
âLike when youâre a teenage girl and you hear your boyfriend is planning on dumping you, so you dump him first like âthatâll teach himâ haha,â she shared. âA petty power move. Gotta respect it. You will never be able to convince me they didnât do it themselves just to scare everyone.â
She also said she âdidnât realizeâ that Facebook was already back up when she went to post the video, joking, âThis is another example of FACEBOOK TRYING TO ASSERT DOMINANCE AND SABOTAGE ME PERSONALLY.â
In the past, Erskineâs videos have been met with a barrage of outraged comments from people who think theyâre real, from Michael Moore to Katie Couric. Itâs possible that people are finally starting to catch on to the satire.
âNo one prominent has been confused yet, but build it and they will come, you know?â she tells me. âIâm holding out hope for a Tom from MySpace retweet.â
For more, listen to Blaire Erskine on âThe Last Laughâ podcast.