My talk with Gary Johnson ( but not really)

This post is a little less formal

I just recently started using Instagram. And about a week ago, I got a surprising follow.

Now I voted for Gary Johnson, so this was an exciting moment for me. I thought maybe I will DM him and say thanks. But then, the next day, I noticed he DMed me

I thought the message was a little strange. Not exactly what was expected. Honestly, I even felt a little uncomfortable, but I don’t exactly know why.

So I responded. “Gary’s” response seemed even stranger to me. I thought he would be excited to hear I officially made the switch in my voter registration. Now here things take an interesting turn.

I did a little googling and found nothing on the subject. So I thought I would test if this was a real person or a bot, as I was suspicious, so I asked a question (additionally, all the past responses seems inappropriate, like bot might guess what people will say and responds to it).

So when he says yes to my question, I know it’s a real person, but I’m pretty sure this is a scam, so I decided to ask a technical question about non-profits (after all, I used to work for one) to see if he knows what he is talking about.

He read this and did not respond. Which pretty much ensures that I wasn’t talking to the real Gary Johnson after all. Additionally, I followed that hashtag and found two posts, here is one of them.

So I DMed the real Gary Johnson. Maybe he will respond and then I can truly say, I spoke to Gary Johnson. Uncut DM below for reference.