{"id":"rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson","name":"Rahul Ligma And Daniel Johnson","summary":"Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson are the gag names two pranksters used on October 28, 2022, when they posed as laid-off Twitter data engineers outside the company's San Francisco headquarters after Elon Musk's takeover. CNBC and Bloomberg interviewed them on camera and published the story before catching the crude ligma joke baked into the fake surname.","tags":["rahul ligma","daniel johnson","twitter hoax","elon musk twitter","ligma meme","cnbc prank","deirdre bosa","twitter layoffs 2022"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":7,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-elon-musk-ligma-johnson-tweet.webp","caption":"Elon Musk publicly acknowledged the prank on October 28, 2022 with a tweet reading 'Ligma Johnson had it coming,' referencing news reports naming the two pranksters as fired employees.","width":430,"height":796,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-reddit-ligma-johnson-reactions.webp","caption":"Reddit users unaware of the prank offered sympathy and legal advice to 'Ligma Johnson,' as documented in this viral tweet from the Reddit Lies account.","width":680,"height":668,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-musk-welcomes-ligma-johnson-twitter-hq.webp","caption":"Musk played along with the prank by inviting Rahul and Daniel to Twitter headquarters, tweeting 'Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!' on November 15, 2022.","width":521,"height":479,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-gene-park-tech-reporters-trolled-tweet.webp","caption":"Tech journalist Gene Park called out mainstream media for falling for the ligma joke, noting the term had even been said on a Reuters livestream.","width":680,"height":533,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-rahul-daniel-pranksters-pose.webp","caption":"Pranksters Rahul and Daniel pose together after successfully fooling news outlets into reporting them as fired Twitter employees named Ligma Johnson.","width":433,"height":720,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-telling-my-kids-ligma-johnson-meme.webp","caption":"A joke tweet applying the popular 'telling my kids' format to falsely identify Elon Musk and Kanye West as the Ligma Johnson pranksters.","width":424,"height":651,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-simpsons-moe-ligma-johnson-meme.webp","caption":"A Simpsons prank call meme captures how mainstream media (MSM) unwittingly repeated the Ligma Johnson name on air, just like Moe falling for Bart's phone gags.","width":680,"height":808,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson/history.md","related":["english-or-spanish","caging","cheese-slap","dumb-starbucks","hollywood-sign-parodies","i-want-this-on-a-shirt-bot-bait","justin-bieber-to-north-korea","moo-virus","no-pants-subway-ride","prank-calling","pranking","swatting-swatted"],"popularityRank":1595,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}