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#DevinHasALeakingAnus is a hashtag which refers to a parody headline from The Onion^[1] that began trending in October 2019. The article "‘At Least They Don’t Know About My Leaking, Prolapsed Anus,’ Thinks Devin Nunes Filing Lawsuit Against Mocking Twitter Accounts" parodies California Republican Representative Devin Nunes' defamation complaint filed against Twitter parody accounts @devinnunesmom and @devinnunescow in March.

Origin

On March 18th, 2019, Devin Nunes filed a complaint in Virginia against Twitter parody accounts “Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow."^[7][2] On October 9th, The Onion^[3] reposted their article "‘At Least They Don’t Know About My Leaking, Prolapsed Anus,’ Thinks Devin Nunes Filing Lawsuit Against Mocking Twitter Accounts" to Twitter (shown below). The tweet gained over 4,900 likes and 900 retweets in a day.

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On October 9th, 2019, Twitter user @GlenBrown15^[4] tweeted, "Lawsuit coming ..Ask @DevinCow about that. (Unless its not parody).😂" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 20 likes in a day. Soon after the article was posted many Twitter users began using the hashtag #DevinHasALeakingAnus. The hashtag began trending the next morning. Twitter user @NocturnusLes^[5] posted a "Imma Head Out" image captioned, "Me after logging onto twitter and the first thing I see trending is #DevinHasALeakingAnus" (shown below, right).

On October 10th, 2019, Twitter user @GrayAndrew^[6] tweeted a screen show of one Twitter user who believed that the the hashtag echoed a fact and complaining about liberals who talk about something the representative cannot change (shown below).

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