Pakalu Papito / Xavier
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About
Pakalu Papito is a novelty Twitter account for a fictional Indian convenience store clerk which is known for posting joke tweets using puns and irreverent humor.
Origin
The @pakalupapito Twitter feed was launched on July 12th, 2013, with the first tweet announcing "hello twitter I am single."[1] Over the next two years, the tweet gained over 17,000 retweets and 6,000 favorites, while the account gathered upwards of 739,000 followers. The character is presented as a 7-11 convenience store clerk who has an intimate relationship with his pet camel.
Spread
On September 2nd, 2013, the Pakalu Papito Facebook[2] page was launched, which reposts tweets from the @pakalupapito feed. In two years, the page received more than 478,000 likes. On October 5th, Urban Dictionary[6] user pakulu submitted an entry for "pakulu papito," defining it as "the act of crashing a camel into a bridge." On March 17th, 2014, Imgur[4] user somedaymynudeswillcome uploaded a gallery of notable @pakalupapito tweet screenshots. On January 18th, 2015, Redditor zealousear submitted a screenshot of a @pakalupapito tweet referring to Kanye West as his brother to /r/indianpeoplefacebook[10] (shown below).
On April 20th, the men's interest blog MensXP[3] published a compilation of 36 tweets from the account. On May 4th, the Pakalu-Papito Tumblr[7] blog was launched, which highlights screenshots of tweets from the @pakalupapito feed. On May 11th, the Yahoo Singapore Tumblr[9] blog pointed out similarities between tweets posted by Facebook user Lee Nova[8] and the @pakalupapito feed (shown below). On June 10th, Tumblr user oiltipped published a post titled "Those 'Pakalu Papito" posts need to fucking die," which accused the account of racism.[5]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @pakalu papito
[2] Facebook – Pakalu Papito
[3] MensXP – 36 Tweets By Pakalu Papito That Prove He Is The New Gag Lord Of The Internet
[4] Imgur – Be honesty you love Pakalu Papito
[5] Tumblr via Wayback Machine – tenaflyviper response
[6] Urban Dictionary – pakulu papito
[7] Tumblr – pakalu-papito
[10] Reddit – Pakulu lov his brother
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