Thousands of Twitter Idiots Agree that Will and Kate Won't Name Their Baby 'Shaniqua'
When it was announced earlier today that future Queen of England Kate Middleton had created, inside her body, with help from Prince William, the eventual ruler of the United Kingdom and its associated territories, Twitter quickly jumped into the fray, doing what it does best: unfunny jokes.
Among the least funny, setting aside the maddening "parody" accounts that pop up after news events like guys selling $20 umbrellas in the rain, was the hashtag game "#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames." Unfunny because basically any word in the English language — that isn't among the few dozen sufficiently regal-sounding saint's names from which Kate and Will will choose their kid's name — will qualify. Doubly unfunny because hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter all came up with the same joke name: "Shaniqua."
There is a new shaniqua tweet about every 1.5 seconds. Shut Twitter down.
— keptsimple (@kept_simple) December 3, 2012
So many people on Twitter are making this same "joke" — which boils down to, I think, "it's unlikely that the future King and Queen of England will give their child the first stereotypically black name I can think of" — that if you search #UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames, the first "related" search is "#unlikelyroyalbabynames shaniqua."
This is a drop in the bucket:
#unlikelyroyalbabynames shaniqua
— Ollie Shipp (@OllieShipp1) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua Savile
— Carpe Diem (@DanielClarke22) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Robyn Barron (@robynbarron) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— Can u stop pls (@ShavonTesse) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua.
— † Lucy ☺ (@lucy_williamson) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua hahah
—alicia savage (@alicia_savage2) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— LUCY ✌ (@ohluce) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames Shaniqua
— Ben Sherwood (@bsherwood87) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Ronald Mcfondled (@UncleBobFeltMe) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Sophie Lovestein☮ (@OYVEY__) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames - Shaniqua
— Hannah Bowns (@HannahBowns) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua @n1ggaliv
— jessieD (@jess_dent) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— gem (@gemthind) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua!! =P
— Wasim[killljoy] (@waspz909) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames Shaniqua
— ☯ FRΞΔK ✝(@jessicamarsh_) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames shaniqua
— Nick howes (@Fencer22) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames tyrone (boy), shaniqua (girl)
— Squeaky (@Squeakyyy) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua.
— aimee (@aimeerebekahxo) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Ryan Johnston (@ryanjohnston95) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua Latifa the 3rd
— MattieBrass∆ (@MattieBrass) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Alannah Cadwallader (@Wench0803) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua?
— Alison Kilsby (@MissKilsby) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames Shaniqua
— eve wright (@evewright_) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Gabriel Quinton (@lunacasteri) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— Sophie Lidyard(@sophielidyard) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— Moncakes (@monika27x) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames Shaniqua
— Carina Girgenti (@CarinaGirgenti) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua.
— Amy McCreanor(@AmyMac92_x) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Amelia Gregorian (@sinkingwater) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— Courtneyy. (@HughesCourtneyy) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames shaniqua
— emily. (@hiemilyyyyy) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua !
—REVOFEV (@3azoz_) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames SHANIQUA
— meg the peg (@MegRyzy) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames -Shaniqua
— London Tipton (@lolzontoast_) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua ✌
— nockersss (@bethanykaitlin) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Whatsername (@_partypoison) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Lois (@loiscornflakes) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Jason Ekundayo (@JasonEkundayo) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Ranjit from maths (@georgesebtaylor) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— ~bronwyn~ (@BronwynMuir) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— crazy cat woman (@__katiethompson) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Emily Aldridge (@emily1994a) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Caroline K (@wheezymuncher) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— amelia may turle (@ItsMeAmeliaT) December 3, 2012
#unlikelyroyalbabynames Shaniqua
— Joshua Butler (@Josh_But) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua.
— ♡Olivia†Diamandis♡ (@OliviaRosee97) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— amelia may turle (@ItsMeAmeliaT) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Crystal Beth xo (@bethglasspell) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Gemma Dobin (@GemmaDobinx) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames shaniqua
— bellaheath (@bellaaheath) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Elena Standerwick (@Elenastanderwic) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Hollie Brolls (@HollieBrolls) December 3, 2012
#UnlikelyRoyalBabyNames Shaniqua
— Jason Ekundayo (@JasonEkundayo) December 3, 2012
Twitter is the greatest tool in the history of humanity for demonstrating how few original thoughts anyone has, ever.