“Go Fuck Yourself”: The Rock Just Owned An Australian Comedian On Twitter
We asked him what it felt like to be owned by The Rock.
Over the course of his wrestling and acting careers Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has made it clear he is not a man to be trifled with. He is an extremely wholesome and pure man, but if you fuck with him he will you fuck you up right back.
We feel that it’s a lesson that shouldn’t need to be reiterated, but some people haven’t learnt that you don’t mess with The Rock. One person in particular, Australian comedian and author Ben Pobjie, has just learnt first hand what happens when you try and throw a bit of a shade The Rock’s way.
This morning The Rock tweet a congratulatory message to his wrestling buddy Kurt Angle, who is making a return to the WWE today.
Congrats to my good bud @RealKurtAngle and his return tonight to a @WWE ring. Special athlete and great human being. Have FUN brotha #WWETLC
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 22, 2017
The post was classic Johnson: respectful and supportive.
Pobjie, a satirist and the author of Aussie Aussie Aussie, quoted The Rock’s tweet about Angle with the comment “Dwayne, wrestling isn’t real. It’s time you knew.”
Dwayne, wrestling isn't real. It's time you knew. https://t.co/3iqKjHfNAn
— Ben Pobjie (@benpobjie) October 22, 2017
I mean the chances of The Rock not knowing that wrestling is fake are pretty slim, given he was a professional wrestler for years. But hey, it’s just a tweet. The Rock has 12 million followers and most of his tweets get shared thousands of times so he probably doesn’t even pay attention to stuff like this. Except… he did pay attention to Pobjie’s tweet.
And he returned fire.
It started out wholesome enough, with a couple of emojis and an appreciation of Pobjie’s “dry wit”. But it ended much more savagely.
? ?? I like the dry wit
Correct, I do in fact know wrestling isn’t real. Thats why I said “have fun”. I also know, you can go fuck yourself.— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 22, 2017
BOOM.
The Rock’s own of Pobjie quickly gathered thousands of retweets and likes, and the fans loved it.
Drop the People's Elbow on his candy ass pic.twitter.com/lFwtqy7T2a
— Corey Longest (@CoreyLongest) October 23, 2017
Rock just #brokebad pic.twitter.com/fDjG80Kl93
— Saul Goodman (@ltsSaulGoodman) October 23, 2017
And now he smells what The Rock is cooking
— Brian Fowler (@farwell3d) October 23, 2017
— susie (@misssusieclark) October 23, 2017
But that wasn’t the end of their interaction. After being inundated with messages from angry wrestling fans, Pobjie tried to walk back from his tweet.
I'm playing a dangerous game hoping @TheRock gets my zany sense of humour and doesn't just have me killed.
— Ben Pobjie (@benpobjie) October 22, 2017
Which led The Rock to respond that he actually appreciated the initial joke!
Haha I just hit you back. Yes, I not only got the zany but appreciated it as well. ??
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 22, 2017
And there are so few of us left ??
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 22, 2017
So not only did Johnson tell someone to go fuck themselves, he managed to end the conversation in a very wholesome and respectable way. Who else could pull it off?!
We got in touch with Pobjie to ask how it felt to be owned by The Rock.
“It feels good,” he told Junkee. “It feels like for once in my life, I am engaging with the elite.”
Pobjie said that most of the wrestling fans who had messaged him since the incident were “very polite, apart from the ones who have threatened to beat me up, the ones who have posted mic drop gifs, the ones who have called me rude names, and the guy who wants to ‘yell like Ric Flair’ at me. But apart from that there was one polite one too.”
“If it matters (probably not) I am genuinely a massive Rock fan, and it actually was really cool to have a bit of banter with him,” Pobjie said.
We’re not sure what the lesson is here. Maybe it’s “Don’t have a go at The Rock unless you want to be thoroughly owned and also end up having a polite conversation with him”.
Fair trade?