E4′s Poor Attempt at Character Borrowing by shoutingatco.ws

For years, internet-pop juggernaut Popjustice has employed Dumper, a ‘work experience robot’ and comic foil for editor Peter Robinson.

Dumper started out writing a blog on the site about various has-been pop acts now relegated to the bargain bins of HMV. But his popularity really took off when he got his own Twitter account, detailing a pathetically typo-filled version of his increasingly tragic life:

Onmy Way to my frinds’ house for some Pancaks yum!!

Thereis no nobodey ansewring thedoor

maybe itis a trick likeOn my bithday when theySaid ‘wewil be in nadno’s’ so iwent there but theywent boleing insted haha

i wil just wait on thedoorstep for ten more minuets incase theyhave gone to,the shops,for suplies (egs, fluor Etc.!)

Socold

IM GOENGHOME

Dumper has become a well-loved figure on Twitter, and not exclusively among pop fans. His tweets are heartbreaking and comical; his robotty naivety provides a unique viewpoint on the world. Well, it was unique until E4, out of absolutely nowhere, got their own intern. An intern with an awfully familiar style:

my names keith im the e4 intern. they make me do things in the office that make them all laf but i dOnt think it funny. today im tweetin. hi

@anthonylapusata i once wrote a script about a intern who solves crimes but they just slapped me dwn n gave me a chinees burn

@style_cramp this isnt hackin. im an intern at e4. spellin hard cos am on fone in disabled loo on 1st floor as no desk space. sory

@style_cramp im 4 reel e4 intern. i can proov it if u want. shall i film the e4 office n post it?

It’s like someone took the awkward spelling of Dumper and thought that copying it entirely without charm would be hilarious, wonderful and that nobody would notice. Except Dumper(‘s creator) did:

@e4tweets Youshuold Check your cotract with e4 becuase they wil stealyour ideas and pas themoff as their Owen! Ithapens to intrens Althetime

Keith disappeared again without a trace just half a dozen tweets later, and E4 acted as though it had never happened.

Smooth work, E4.

Comments

1. Eager Fox says:

   July 4, 2011 at 7:18 pm

   @dmuper has just over 5000 followers, he’s not exactly a phenomenon. And faux naivete was not invented by Peter Robinson.

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