I see, thx for the explainer

The whole “Buddy, they won’t even let me fuck the flag” might be my internet joke.

This is crazy. I’m pretty wired into a lot of internet, from the days of IRC to quietly lurking on 4chan/bottom feeding reddit. I’ve learned of subcultures on Tumblr and the darkness of Twitter. I am one of those guys that gives a polite nod when you send me a meme - I’ve probably already seen it.

It’s crazy that I never heard of Dril, and reading the Wikipedia history makes me feel out of touch.

Impact on Internet slang edit

Like Dante or Shakespeare, Dril is a creator of vernacular: If you've ever tweeted about the boys being back in town,[dril 13] or bemoaned some group of people being at it again,[dril 14] or ruminated on things "they" won't even let you do,[dril 15] or asked for budgeting help because your family is dying,[dril 16] you're quoting Dril, maybe without even consciously realizing it by now ... [T]hrough sheer force of genius, his sense of humor has become everyone else's as well.

Armin Rosen, Tablet[41]

References to dril’s tweets have become part of the vernacular of Internet slang. Some of dril’s distinctive phrases have become so ubiquitous that they are used even by those who are unaware of the phrases’ origin.[2][41][42] Although dril’s biggest influence is on Twitter, his tweets are also popular on other social media platforms—for example, meme-aggregating groups on Facebook commonly share his content,[43] and several Tumblr users and trends have referenced and been influenced by dril.[44][45][46] There was a Know Your Meme guide to dril in 2014, at a time when KYM pages for individual Twitter users were comparatively rare.[8]

A common piece of conventional wisdom on Twitter holds that it is possible to find a dril Tweet that corresponds to virtually any situation or statement,[9][47][48] leading to the saying “There’s always a dril Tweet.”[49][50][51] As an example, the dril Tweet below has been widely referenced after a person apologizes for making a dramatically offensive and obviously incorrect statement:[52]

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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
February 15, 2017[dril 17]

As described by Purdom, finding the dril tweet that matches an event or statement has become an online parlor game, made possible because dril had “rendered a tightly written comedic exaggeration of every daily outrage and conflict from the news cycle in which we find ourselves trapped.”[9] Purdom also found that dril’s early preoccupations and sensibility had an outsized, “Velvet Underground-like influence on the tenor of the internet to come.”[9] By the end of 2017, the staff of Deadspin declared that “comparing everything to @dril” was a trend that “should die” in 2018, asserting that dril himself remained funny but dril comparisons had become an overused, lazy trope, because too many Twitter users were relying on dril references “as a substitute for an actual joke.”[48] Until 2021, dril’s first tweet, “no”, was used by dril as his “pinned tweet”, a feature of Twitter that allows one tweet the user considers to be particularly important to be “pinned” out of chronological order at the top of a Twitter feed. Despite, or because of, its lack of context, it has amassed thousands of likes and retweets. According to Will Oremus at Slate, the popularity of the “no” tweet is an example of how “The metadata is the message” on social media, as metrics like retweets provide important context and carry independent meaning, akin to a laugh track on TV.[53][54]

I still have no idea about anything he’s said that has had any impact on internet slang

Is his wiki written by a fan?