That Shea Patterson viral tweet is a hoax

The latest example that you can’t trust anything on the internet involves Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson and a bogus Twitter account.

Did you see that tweet purportedly from Shea Patterson that went viral on Sunday? If you’re an Ohio State or Notre Dame fan, chances are you retweeted it and had a good laugh at the expense of Michigan football. But, sorry, the joke’s on you. You just got played.

The tweet in question originated from the Twitter account @cfbquotes and showed a tweet that looked like it came from Patterson’s account where he is talking in the third person, talked some trash about Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields and said he would have won the Heisman if he was allowed to call his own plays.

It’s been retweeted more than 2,000 times and liked close to 8,000 times. The problem is 10,000 people were duped into thinking this was real. You got catfished by a teenager who will be an incoming freshman at Washington this fall who runs this “quotes” account and has a history of being exposed for outright lying on his account.

https://twitter.com/cfbquotes/status/1147976312910274560

Just last week, the account was outed for making up a quote from Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal about how easy it will be to beat Auburn in their season opener. The only problem? Cristobal didn’t say it.

Before that, it was making up a quote from Colorado wide receiver Laviska Shenault.

The gimmick isn’t original, funny or clever. It’s just the latest example of a parody account deceiving people on Twitter. I’m not the Twitter police and I have no problem with parody accounts if they are funny. But this isn’t funny. It’s just kinda sad this is what people choose to do with their free time.

So while you retweet this attempted comedy, just remember you’re only making yourself look like a clown.