There Is A Person Bizarrely Capitalizing Off Kevin Ware’s Injury On Twitter And Facebook

Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created to try and build someone a following by pretending to be the injured Louisville player.

Yesterday, a Twitter user took advantage of Kevin Ware's horrifying injury in the Louisville-Duke March Madness game to make a fake Kevin Ware account.

Yesterday, a Twitter user took advantage of Kevin Ware's horrifying injury in the Louisville-Duke March Madness game to make a fake Kevin Ware account.

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As of yesterday evening, the account had only tweeted five times: once thanking people for their support and rooting for Louisville, and four times responding to prominent Twitter users who had tweeted about Ware. (Ware's real account appears to be @_Woody23; it hasn't tweeted since January 2012.)

Since then, though, whoever thought this was a good idea has only gone farther with it.

The tweets started mostly as schlocky attempts at inspiration

The tweets started mostly as schlocky attempts at inspiration

but quickly spun off in more disturbing directions. Here, whoever's running the account tries to call out another fake Ware Twitter.

but quickly spun off in more disturbing directions. Here, whoever's running the account tries to call out another fake Ware Twitter.


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