About

Fantasy Supreme Court refers to a social game on Twitter in which a person, following directions from with instructions on how to play, tags several of their followers to be their version of the United States Supreme Court.

Origin

On June 27th, 2018, following the news that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy would be retiring, Twitter user @doubleplusgoo^[1] posted the game. The instructions involve taking letters from the names of existing members of the Supreme Court and tagging users on Twitter who appear in the suggestions when writing the @ symbol and a corresponding letter (shown below).

Spread

As the game began spreading, political pundits and politically active Twitter users began participating. CNN anchor Jake Tapper posted his version, gaining over 520 likes (shown below, left). New Yorker writer @hels' version gained over 120 likes (shown below right).

Some Twitter users began noticing that Twitter user and political writer @SeanMcElwee came up numerous times in their versions of the game. For example, Twitter user and Vox writer @mattyglesias found the user came up 5 times in his game (shown below, left). This is potentially due to McElwee's long Twitter handle. McElwee tweeted that he was aware of his popularity in the game, gaining over 230 likes (shown below, right). The spread of the game was covered by Slate.^[2]

Various Examples

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