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Earlier this week, 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson achieved social media fame with the most retweeted tweet in history. The tweet, posted on April 5th, asked Wendy's how many retweets he would need for a year of free chicken nuggets. The fast food chain responded with an ambitious 18 million, and while Carter only has a little over 3.5 million now, Wendy's decided to grant him his request for breaking such a monumental record.
Of course, lots of people jumped on his viral bandwagon, including Ellen Degeneres, who brought him onto the show to confront him edging her out of having the most retweeted tweet ever with her viral Oscars selfie. They even took a selfie together in an effort to tie for first place.
That was really cute. You know what wasn't cute, though? United Airlines trying to get in on the action as a way of resuscitating their dying image.
"If you get the 18 million RTs, we'll give you a free flight to take you to any @Wendys in the world in a city we serve. Good luck!" they wrote.
Obviously, Twitter was merciless in their subsequent roasting.
Like, clearly it's way too early for you to try to be cool again. Not that you were ever cool, tbh.
On the other hand, maybe if you give Carter a Pepsi to wash down those nuggets, everything in the world will be good again!
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