In a post-#AlexFromTarget world, literally nothing about Internet fame should surprise you anymore. But one subset of teens on Twitter, the all-mighty One Direction fandom, just found a new, equally-random Twitter icon in Jerry Riekert, aka @jrtoh15, a 50-year-old dad from Long Island who makes lamps and kind of likes One Direction.
On Sunday night, the unsuspecting dad tweeted:
Directioners noticed his tweet after One Direction's AMA performance and responded appropriately:
Jerry couldn't have been more surprised:
Sure the lamp man was trying to play it cool. But there's evidence of his fandom dating back to December:
Naturally, this time around, it didn't take long for @jrtoh15 to get some meme-ified:
And while @jrtoh15 is just becoming familiar with the wonders of One Direction, he clearly already knows how Twitter fame works. Proof? Here he is, with a little casual self-promotion:
He even offered to meet the 1D-ers halfway, in the form of: One Direction lamps!
Loyal-ish fans of @jrtoh15 are freaking out, of course:
And loving his adorable dad-like cluelessness:
Long live weird Internet fandom, where a simple dad and his lamps can rise to fame overnight.
h/t Buzzfeed