Kanye Fans Don’t Know Who Paul McCartney Is? Twitter May Have Just Trolled Beatles Fans

Have you heard that Kanye fans don’t know who Paul McCartney is? That’s what’s being said, since the pair recorded a song together — but is it really accurate, or did Twitter get trolled?

Screenshots of tweets from people who appear to love Kanye West and have no idea who Paul McCartney is are going viral, with people bemoaning the youth that has never heard of The Beatles. Here are a couple of the tweets that are inspiring the forehead-slapping and social media sharing.

Who is this Paul McCartney?❓❓❗??? He boutta blow up thanks to Kanye!!! ❗️

— mamacita (@cuntbino) January 2, 2015

Who's this Paul McCartney guy everyone keeps talking about? Props to Kanye for helping struggling artists.

— Morgan Evans (@totallymorgan) January 3, 2015

I don't know who Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this man a career w/ this new song!!

— Josh (@OVOJosh) January 2, 2015

https://twitter.com/CurvedDaily/status/551042428523020289

The first one appears to be the most-retweeted, most-quoted, most screenshot of the whole lot. However, let’s look at a few of her later tweets:

why am I getting so much hate? I didn't know people used to listen to beatles in the 60

— mamacita (@cuntbino) January 3, 2015

why did people used listen to bugs?

— mamacita (@cuntbino) January 3, 2015

Maybe this is really a rap fan who just doesn’t understand that ‘Beatles’ is a band name, despite an endless number of bands whose names also mean other things (and that the bug is spelled differently), but maybe this is the red flag that this account is just playing. The same account later tweets about ‘bae’ meaning ‘poop’ in Danish, calls The Beatles ‘bae,’ and tweets ‘Goals accomplished.’

Next up? The person behind the second tweet above retweeted the people giving him corrections, then tweeted this:

I think I'll RT five more people who think I don't know who Paul McCartney is before I tell them Brian Epstein is my favorite Beatle.

— Morgan Evans (@totallymorgan) January 4, 2015

And this:

OK I learned who Paul McCartney is. He did Wings and then that song with Kanye. Thanks everyone for helping me understand.

— Morgan Evans (@totallymorgan) January 4, 2015

Oh, and on his website, he talks about employment by The Onion (the satirical news site.)

It’s probably safe to assume he was having Twitter on, too.

The account behind the third tweet above announced that the tweet wasn’t serious — after he woke to texts telling him he was on TV.

the thing is if I was serious about that tweet I would have just deleted it and put my account on private LMFAO.

— Josh (@OVOJosh) January 4, 2015

The fourth account represented has also admitted it was a joke.

Is it possible that any of these Twitter users really didn’t know who Paul McCartney is? Certainly — but it’s not what their Twitter accounts seem to show. It’s also certainly possible that there are other Kanye fans out there who’ve never heard of Paul McCartney or The Beatles — but it doesn’t appear that we really do have evidence for it in tweets.

[Photo Credit: The Admirality]

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