https://twitter.com/KidRock/status/719983895043829760/photo/1
Kid Rock is essentially a walking Bud Light advertisement and his brand is basically “stand defiant of authority as long as it doesn’t get in the way of your job, which you need to make payments on your Ford Fusion.” But you don’t need to take a nebbish blogger’s word for it, just check out that #totallysweet photo of him being a #rebel that he posted to Twitter. As they should when a 45-year-old man flicks off a camera to be edgy, the Internet noticed and took the American Badass to task.
First, came the straight-up mocking:
https://twitter.com/JoeMande/status/719993918532796416
https://twitter.com/rusty_shackles/status/719993204683091968
https://twitter.com/pregnantmoron/status/719994795339419649
https://twitter.com/MayorBurnsy/status/719996824036073472
https://twitter.com/classic_lunch/status/720001704071069696
After that, “Hey, Authority” went as all great Twitter trends do and got a little Dada:
Hey, authority. pic.twitter.com/PRR8SY3x7S
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 12, 2016
Hey authority: pic.twitter.com/qS6bN4UHG3
— Drew Schnoebelen (@Dschnoeb) April 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/719995513790050304
Hey, authority. pic.twitter.com/X5sX39EMFg
— Paula Dune 2 (@BuzzfeedGDebord) April 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/720004930258472961
https://twitter.com/katiemathewson/status/720005247335137280
There were a few nerds who have clearly never made love next to a body of water chock full of fecal coliform bacteria. They came to question Kid Rock’s revolutionary bona fides:
https://twitter.com/_bam/status/720002248177090560
https://twitter.com/rusty_shackles/status/720000109845422080
I bet they’ve never even sang “Sweet Home Alabama” for three straight months. Losers.
Then, as only happens in the most transcendent Internet pile-ons, angry monkeys got involved:
hey authority pic.twitter.com/x3TdBmH9ar
— Megan Neuringer (@MeganNeuringer) April 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/MeganNeuringer/status/719998003885379584
Hey, authority: pic.twitter.com/ePh3yaJQtK
— goop dreams (@verbal_kunt) April 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/joshuaolusa/status/720001791178514434
(Let’s play “Spot the Uproxx commenter.”)
And in the end, some folks just really wanted Authority to notice them:
hey authority pic.twitter.com/IitfllMbBN
— Eric Brown (@ericbrownzzz) April 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/nprevenas/status/719996753479512065
Really, what did the Internet expect from a Michigan-born rapper who supports the Confederate flag, Donald Trump, and your dad’s taste in porn?