This article contains explicit material.
The small subsection of Twitter that is actually funny mourned the sudden loss of one of its own this week… by sending a picture of a guy’s naked butt to a Philadelphia TV station. No doubt it’s what he would have wanted.
@TomBroDude, real name Tom Reynolds, who was extremely prolific and consistently funny on Twitter, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend, leaving many behind to mourn the loss of a genuine, kindhearted goof.
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/777520775641206784
Friends and fans paid tribute by calling attention to his best work:
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/478905359877537792
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/566280028544315392
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/516711585482416128
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/585176399834644480
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/551571522847268866
Soon, a plan emerged to celebrate Tom by doing what he loved so much: trolling Philadelphia’s ABC station, WPVI. He had an annual winter tradition of hijacking their snow hashtag, #6abcsnow
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/559796771761946624
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/559796909104459776
Following in his footsteps, his friends decided to spam the station with this weird picture of a naked dude’s butt:
TomBroDude/Twitter
https://twitter.com/SquidDad/status/778035983732342784
https://twitter.com/RockChalkChief/status/778080378980532225
https://twitter.com/thespinzone/status/778066204258930688
https://twitter.com/notkerouac/status/778036039046881280
https://twitter.com/FanSince09/status/778243292915834880
Check @6abc’s mentions on any tweet from the past 36 hours, and you’ll see the naked guy over and over and over. It’s truly glorious.
I never thought seeing a naked man 200 times in a minute would make me cry but… wait actually this has happened to me before
— necromanced krabman (@SquidDad) September 20, 2016
The naked dude’s identity and the source of the photo are murky—a reverse-image search gives you nothing but Twitter results—but Tom was a big fan.
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/576596850041597952
https://twitter.com/tombrodude/status/576608796874768384
So it makes sense that his “favorite Twitter pals” would remember him by ass-spamming his local TV station.
They’re also taking more practical steps, though, like donating to a GoFundMe for Tom’s family and girlfriend.
Although Twitter is a bad irony website, none of this is ironic. Tom and his good tweets will sincerely be missed.