Patriots Fan's Heat Check Goes Wrong

Sound the Twitter drama foghorn, because you’re about to read about something incredibly stupid and meaningless.

During the Boston Marathon on Monday, one man held up a sign with the third-quarter score of the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl. (Remember how that turned out?) It was a clever motivator for the runners, and a display of good old Boston pride. Abdul Dremali, who goes by @Advil on Twitter, posted the photo, and it really clicked:

Eventually, this caught the attention of media outlets, and they politely asked Abdul for permission to use the image even though Twitter is public. ESPN, a network which Patriots fans hold in contempt for doing fake news to the team, did not receive permission:

Who did this, fam?

Fam—he did it.

He fammed the fam out of that fam. There was more to this famming, however: The photo wasn’t his.

Whoops. Dremali, who had been determining how to be credited for a photo he didn’t take, tried to make it up to the original photographer.

There’s a lesson in all of this: Validation on the internet is the most addictive drug of all.