Which person from history no longer with us would have the most insane social media presence?

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Which person from history no longer with us would have the most insane social media presence?

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  1. stunspelledbackwards Avatar

    Adolf Hitler

    Commander of the Third Reich

  2. productivity-ge Avatar

    Nikola Tesla — man would’ve been subtweeting Edison nonstop.

  3. CatalystForAll Avatar

    Gengis Khan. The way he reasoned in doing what he did is just insane. He was also fighting fundamentalist islamists, so it would be like if someone attacked ISIS during their hay day and then was just worse than they were.

  4. Moorglademover Avatar

    Aleister Crowley.

    ….Edgar Allan Poe.

  5. RandomPersonBob Avatar

    Ernest Hemingway would certainly be something to watch….

  6. Shadow3199 Avatar

    Charles Manson. He’d have quite a lot of followers

  7. teamaugustine Avatar

    Friedrich Nietzsche.

  8. BlackMilk23 Avatar

    Seems like Mata Hari would have found a way to use this to her advantage

  9. IAmNotScottBakula Avatar

    Guy Fawkes, especially since his handle would (hopefully) be @ThisGuyFawkes

  10. hoganpaul Avatar

    Freddie Mercury

  11. Naive_Violinist_4871 Avatar

    Every Medieval king, but I’ll give an honorable mention to imagining Roald Dahl drunk tweeting about Israel-Palestine.

  12. wholewheatscythe Avatar

    Stalin. Mao. Any dictator basically.

    I think Stalin’s would be more insane. Dude would probably be announcing mass arrests/executions on his social media weekly.

  13. VeliraBloom Avatar

    Oscar Wilde. His tweets would be pure gold.

  14. wholewheatscythe Avatar

    Voltaire would have an awesome social media presence.

  15. Gluten-Free-Jesus Avatar

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He’d be unhinged and wildly entertaining. 

  16. Plus-King5266 Avatar

    Probably Rasputin, the Russian priest.

  17. TheWillsofSilence Avatar

    henry david thoreau would be using social media to complain about social media

  18. SirNortonOfNoFux Avatar

    Those lying girls from the Salem witch trials

  19. Candle_Flower Avatar

    Cecilia Vasa… Swedish princess who caused several scandals, like being caught with a guy sneaking in her window and trying to flee England with her husband since they couldn’t pay their bills anymore and Elizabeth I wasn’t really interested in continuing their friendship (for obvious reasons)

    Oh, and she was a pirate for a while as well…

    If she had had social media I have a feeling it would have been kinda insane😂

  20. carmineragu Avatar

    Dorothy Parker. Her tweets would be epic.

  21. Mobile_Bad_577 Avatar

    William Shakespeare?

  22. 12345_PIZZA Avatar

    Mitch Hedberg would’ve had a great Twitter

  23. mortscoot Avatar

    Dorothy Parker would have been the queen of sick burns. 

  24. NewCaptainGutz57 Avatar

    Churchill.

    No one would be safe.

  25. drRATM Avatar

    Amelia Earhart would have a hell of a blog and people would be following her big trip.

  26. SafeEnough7138 Avatar

    Liberace would be off the chain.

  27. NeoMoose Avatar

    I could only imagine what John McAfee’s social media accounts would look like today when they were already crazy as hell when he was alive.

  28. Unstableavo Avatar

    Freddie Mercury? He would be a gay icon

  29. Rekdon Avatar

    Marilyn Monroe’s Instagram would be nuts

  30. MardawgNC Avatar

    GEORGE CARLIN 100%

  31. CharlesAvlnchGreen Avatar

    Andy Warhol. He was on the internet early, and I recall he even web-cammed his death (I tried to watch some of it but I only had dialup).

    He would have shared a ton of art, selfies, and pics from his social life.

    EDIT: He died in 1987, too early for web cams, but the rest of my comment still stands.

  32. Festamus Avatar

    Frank Zappa would have been straight fire. And all the time with his serious caffeine dependency and he would have been able to upgrade from a percalator to monster.

  33. CaptainFartHole Avatar

    Mark Twain would have been a Twitter god.

    And Jim Jones would have killed it on YouTube and Tiktok.

  34. yearsofpractice Avatar

    I thought about this the other day – Muhammad Ali. A young Ali would have been absolutely hilarious and devastating on the socials.

    EDIT: He would have been the greatest ever shitposter

  35. Last_Pineapple_6361 Avatar

    George Carlin 👀🤭

  36. Blew-By-U Avatar

    Franz Liszt. The greatest piano player of his time, and possibly the greatest piano player ever. 1811-1886. People would faint at his concerts. Women and men. The term was lisztomania.

  37. takeusername1 Avatar

    Edgar Allen Poe would probably have some wild tweets

  38. Fine-Environment4809 Avatar

    Benjamin Franklin. Wild man, ladies man, international traveler and quite an interesting mind and sense of humor!

  39. s2sergeant Avatar

    Alexander Hamilton. He’d be on Twitter 23 hours a day.

  40. Delicious_Rule_7324 Avatar

    Genghis kahn. The family album alone🤯

  41. bobchin_c Avatar

    Harry Houdini. The man was a shameless self promoter. One of the best of his time. He’d have an amazing on-line presence.

  42. BlueEyedWalrus84 Avatar

    Napoleon Bonaparte would be interesting to see

  43. GuyfromMemphis Avatar

    Elvis would have some wild content.

  44. wormwoodscrub Avatar

    Doctor Bronner. He would love social media.

  45. uwillnotgotospace Avatar

    Ea Nasir would have the single largest block lists of any platform he was on.

  46. mamajustice_me Avatar

    F Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. Can you imagine the trolling by Zelda? Cryptic & passive aggressive messages. Calling out Hemingway or whoever she was upset with. Then F Scott trying to smooth the waters after.

  47. sorandom21 Avatar

    Dorothy Parker would have the best twitter of all time

  48. Top_Willingness_8364 Avatar

    I could imagine Nanni, the man who wrote a complaint tablet to Ea Nasir about substandard copper, writing business reviews on Google or Yelp.

  49. MorrisCody1 Avatar

    Steve Irwins energy would catapult him to top tier levels. He was made for TikTok before TikTok.

  50. plz2meatyu Avatar

    Catherine the Great would be awesome imo

  51. leviathan0999 Avatar

    Hitler. Can you imagine the sway he’d hold over “incels”* if he was actually posting for himself on X, with Elon and the Cheeto-in-Chief verbally fellating him every time he crapped out some racist shitpost?

    *FOOTNOTE: There’s no such thing as an InCel. Each and every one is voluntarily choosing to be completely unfuckable.

  52. LongjumpingJob3452 Avatar

    The apostle Paul.

    He was a shameless promoter of Christianity back in his day, and he was a real scrapper. He’d make today’s mega churches look like pathetic broom closets. He’d shitpost the hell out of Trump and the billionaires—figuratively and literally, lol.

  53. kzkahn Avatar

    Mohammad Ali.

    And it’s not even a debate. He had social media level hype in the times of radio and cable TV.

  54. JohnKCarter Avatar

    I would love to see what Carl Sagan would post.

  55. Otterhendrix Avatar

    Mr. Rogers. The dude was the most amazing human being. He would be Gen X’s version of Steve from Blues Clues if he was still alive. 

  56. Professionalrebel401 Avatar

    Shakespeare….can you imagine the drama