By now, you've probably heard of Sonja, Sweden's social media experiment gone horribly wrong.
To recap: Back in December, the country of Sweden came up with the idea of letting a random person control its Twitter account each week. The only qualifications were that the person had to speak English, be interesting, and be Twitter-literate. Up until last week, the little experiment was all well and good.
Then it came to be Sonja Abrahamsson's turn. And, well, I'll just let Forbes take this one:
Her offensive tweets have included a Henry Blodget-worthy digression on “what’s the fuzz with Jews?,” the claim that “before WWII Hitler was one of the most beautiful names in the whole wide world,” a photo of Freddy Mercury with strawberries captioned “hungry gay with aids,” a video on “breastfolding,” the need to get some eggs so she wouldn’t “starve like an African child,” that her life might be easier if she “had downs syndrome,” and the suggestion “that Happy Feet is probably the worst movie ever.”
Sonja is either completely out-of-her-mind or a troll. Regardless, she is, along with @dadboner, one of the most entertaining trainwrecks to follow on Twitter. You need to follow her.
Right now, here's a small sampling of how she's shaming her country worse than assembly instructions from IKEA. Taken as England beat the Swedes in the Euro:
































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