JULY 14 UPDATE: breaking news!
The Count from Sesame Street has an official Twitter account (doesn't everyone) that has a very characteristic gimmick. Once or twice per day, the account simply counts a different number in sequence. For example...
This has been going on since the feed's inception, as far as I can tell. May 22 of this year seemed like a day just like any other...
....except this was the last tweet. After almost a full month, the feed is still silent.
It begs the question, did something happen to the Count?! Did he accidentally walk into the sun and get vaporized? Did his bloodlust suddenly overcome even his love of counting and he, like, murdered Ernie or something? Was the Count finally revealed as the true cause of Mr. Hooper's death all those years ago, and Sesame Street just leveled the audience with a massive plot twist in its season finale? I'm not sure I'm prepared for next season's plotline of Big Bird, Snuffy and a Muppet-ized version of Sarah Michelle Gellar out for revenge against Countgelus.
I won't lie, I looked up "1329" on Wikipedia just to see if that was the year Vlad The Impaler died or something, and this was all just some very clever and literate reference from whomever maintains the Twitter feed. No corresponding historical reference could be found, however. What was I thinking, "whomever maintains the feed." It's clearly run by the Count himself!
The Count from Sesame Street has an official Twitter account (doesn't everyone) that has a very characteristic gimmick. Once or twice per day, the account simply counts a different number in sequence. For example...
One thousand one hundred fifty two!— Count von Count (@CountVonCount) February 18, 2017
One thousand one hundred fifty three!— Count von Count (@CountVonCount) February 19, 2017
One thousand one hundred fifty four!— Count von Count (@CountVonCount) February 19, 2017
This has been going on since the feed's inception, as far as I can tell. May 22 of this year seemed like a day just like any other...
One thousand three hundred twenty nine!— Count von Count (@CountVonCount) May 23, 2017
....except this was the last tweet. After almost a full month, the feed is still silent.
It begs the question, did something happen to the Count?! Did he accidentally walk into the sun and get vaporized? Did his bloodlust suddenly overcome even his love of counting and he, like, murdered Ernie or something? Was the Count finally revealed as the true cause of Mr. Hooper's death all those years ago, and Sesame Street just leveled the audience with a massive plot twist in its season finale? I'm not sure I'm prepared for next season's plotline of Big Bird, Snuffy and a Muppet-ized version of Sarah Michelle Gellar out for revenge against Countgelus.
I won't lie, I looked up "1329" on Wikipedia just to see if that was the year Vlad The Impaler died or something, and this was all just some very clever and literate reference from whomever maintains the Twitter feed. No corresponding historical reference could be found, however. What was I thinking, "whomever maintains the feed." It's clearly run by the Count himself!
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