Over last weekend, the heartwarming story went viral of a young woman looking to reunite with a friend she had met and quickly bonded with during a dinner cruise in Hawaii in 2006. Taking a shot in the dark, she tweeted out a photo of the two as children. “We were basically best friends for that night so I need y’all to help me find my best friend cause I miss her and I need to see how she’s doing now,” @briannacry posted on Twitter, adding “Please retweet this so we can be reunited.”
Suffice to say, Twitter worked its magic and the two were quickly and adorably reconnected:
OMG OMG HEY GIRL HEY GIRL HEY!! https://t.co/elWi5t1bPq
— B (@briannacry) November 24, 2018
Taking a page from the two pals book, a 27-year-old London-based writer named Bolu Babalola thought she’d employ the same tactic using a bit of fancy Photoshop work to meet Creed and Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan.
“I met this guy on holiday this summer, we had a such a great connection but I changed my number and we lost touch,” she joked. “Twitter do your thing!”
https://twitter.com/BeeBabs/status/1066481720294342657
It's upsetting me and my homegirls that people think this is photoshop. Please have some respect and stop being so cynical. Respect romance and stop trying to interrupt the course of true love. 🙏🏿 what's understood don't need to be explained❤. 📸 @FUERTESKNIGHT
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 25, 2018
Well, as it just so happened, Jordan was in town for the London premiere and Q&A for Creed II, and after her tweet went viral, Babalola managed to get herself an invite.
I am going to the Creed II Q&A tomorrow
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 27, 2018
I am still tripping that he happened to be in London just as I was pulling a stunt like this
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 29, 2018
watch me be too shook to ask shit, I'm fake pic.twitter.com/zjSVIg0wLG
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 27, 2018
I stood up& asked a question about tenderness&romance in the film despite the brutality (💅🏿)&then I was like "um so speaking of romance" and then I was ended up being like "remember last summer" and explained but he KNEW& THEN HE SAID "you know we have to get a pic right?" And I pic.twitter.com/8L4Kje6pGW
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 28, 2018
When @BeeBabs took the mic, I was like "yesss go on honey, take a chaaance"!
Creed 2.5: A Twitter Romance, co-starring @michaelb4jordan #Creed2 💕 pic.twitter.com/HDiOCfFDbX
— Michelle Owusu (@MichelleShanti) November 29, 2018
Yes, mission accomplished — she not only got to ask her question, but Jordan was so gracious that he even insisted they get a photo together.
Ms Steal Your Man. Case closed. pic.twitter.com/tqNe6P9aA6
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 28, 2018
I cant speak talk later im shaking…we touched
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 28, 2018
We spoke
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 28, 2018
We hugged
— Bolu Babalola is technically on leave 🍯&🌶 (@BeeBabs) November 28, 2018
And Jordan had such a good sense of humor about the whole thing that he even later retweeted her, adding that it was nice to meet her, “for the second time.”
Happy Twitter did it’s thing 🙌🏾🌹🙏🏾😂 Great meeting you (for the second time 🤷🏾♂️😂😂😂) https://t.co/JDeBxnJjTb
— Michael B. Jordan (@michaelb4jordan) November 29, 2018
Babalola later told Buzzfeed that when seeing the original viral post, she thought in a “split second” thought it would be fun to spoof with the image, which a friend of hers had Photoshopped.
“Obviously I have a crush on Michael B. Jordan,” she explained. “Everybody who likes men has a crush on Michael B. Jordan, but in my group chat it is known that I *very much* have a crush on Michael B. Jordan.”
Well, she’s not 100 percent wrong. And at the very least, it gives Creed II an added bump of extra publicity — not that it exactly needs it, anyway.