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Currently Ian Karmel is trending in Memphis. How did such a thing occur? The answer lies in Ian’s “Everything as Fuck” column this week in which he ladled on a heaping helping of hilarious shit-talk on the Memphis Grizzlies. READ IT HERE. Then Ian tweeted this:

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As it turns out, people in Memphis have Twitter, too! And they used theirs to say things like this:

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At least one person hoped that Ian would “die slowly.”

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Then it gets a bit confusing… because some of the tweets are protected… but someone threatened Ian with a gun.

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Which led to….

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But then some Memphis fans rushed to Ian’s defense!

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So naturally, someone DID write a “response column.” (Read that here.)

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And that’s when it became official: @iankarmel is trending in Memphis.

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Follow more of the fun here.

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

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