Not so shockingly, like most of the actions that he’s taken as vice president thus far, Vance’s seeming attempt at trolling the app’s audience backfired spectacularly. At the time of writing, his first Bluesky post has, at the time of writing, a brutal ratio of 2.4 thousand likes and 6.5 thousand replies.
To quote just one user’s reply: “Welcome to Bluesky. No one likes a fawning flap mouthed fascist pig.”
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Despite being the country’s ostensible second-in-command, Vance only has around 10,800 followers. Like I mentioned before, he’s already become the most-blocked Bluesky user in the site’s four-year history — according to the third-party data tracker Clearsky, Vance has been blocked by over 113,303 people at the time of writing.
As if all that weren’t enough, Bluesky temporarily suspended Vance on Wednesday before verifying that the page was authentic.
“Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past,” a Bluesky spokesperson told TechCrunch on Thursday. “The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity.”
So let this be a lesson: yes, it is possible to fail your way upward until you’re privy to draconian cartoon villain schemes in the White House. But if you’re JD Vance, that doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day, you still look like an absolute dweeb.
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