John's Tumblr persona: the Awesome Coffee Club and its 'unpaid intern' (2023)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2023) · last event: callback (2023-08-29)
In 2023 John returned to Tumblr posting memes as the Awesome Coffee Club, a coffee company that gives its profit to charity. Through 2023 he kept calling himself its unpaid intern, even after being 'demoted' from CEO.
Part of: Awesome Coffee Club: the brothers' coffee subscription for charity (2022)
About: Tumblr, Awesome Coffee Club
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-03 | first use | In a channel comment, John says he has become the Awesome Coffee Club's unpaid social media intern, so far only on Tumblr, and may start a TikTok. | TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH creator comment |
| 2023-01-24 | first use | On Tumblr John sometimes answers questions but mostly posts memes about being famously bullied off Tumblr and returning not as a soul-endowed human but as a charitable coffee company. (playful) | Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:02:00 |
| 2023-08-01 | callback | John jokes that nobody pays him to say it, since he is the club's unpaid intern, but it really is the best coffee in the world and good to drink thanks to Marta, Dolores and others. (playful) · also in: John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations | Three Mornings 00:05:35 |
| 2023-08-29 | callback | John says he wasn't very good at the job and is thrilled to be demoted back to his natural role as unpaid social media intern making memes about the coffee. (playful) | Breaking News: CEO Demoted 00:01:57 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John says he no longer wants to be an individual, with all its inherent fragility; he wants to be a company and would rather not be a person on the internet again. (playful) — 00:02:29
- 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John: Posting on, John invented his own lore: having worked unpaid for the Awesome Coffee Club, he is the world's only ethically sourced unpaid intern. (playful) — 00:02:29