Not everyone is born with a flair for interior design. Some are able to transform a room using a throwaway scrap of Hessian and a pot of Pantone-approved paint, while others can only cheat their way with Pinterest tutorials and a few cheeky trips to IKEA. Sometimes you’ve either got it, or you don’t.
Michael Reeves falls into camp don’t.
The 21-year-old, whose robot-related YouTube videos clock up to 6 million views, put an interesting offer to his followers on Tuesday.
In a one-minute video, the software developer implores the Twitter community to redecorate his somewhat sad-looking new bedroom.
Use Twitter to decorate my room pic.twitter.com/ZHpeV9HtFh
— Michael Reeves (@michaelreeves08) October 10, 2019
‘The reason it’s so empty and boring and looks like the purgatory realm between life and death is because I don’t know how to decorate anything,’ Michael revealed.
‘So instead I wrote a Twitter bot that let’s you decide what goes into my room, just by tweeting.’
The video has since amassed nearly 4 million views.
To help revamp the space, users simply had to tweet the link to the Amazon item they would like to see in his bedroom. Every 15 minutes, the bot purchased the product with most likes. There was also a $25 limit (£20), which he later increased to $90 (£71).
In the 24-hour period after the original tweet, a melting pot of items, tastes, cultures and passions was birthed.
The bot ordered shower curtains with sassy text, a 7 x 5 ft Jurassic Park party decoration, a 72-piece pack of fuzzy worm toys, a copy of The Communist Manifesto, an inflatable hotdog pool toy, a copy of the Bible (that’s a King James Version, folks), and a 5-film DVD set of Twilight.
A ‘Boyfriend Pillow Microbead Companion Pillow’ even made the purchase list, which will certainly come in handy for those lonely nights when Michael has scared off all potential partners with his newly-decorated room of terrors.
His constant updates on the purchases the bot has made has been the gift that keeps on giving, with plenty of Twitter users along for the ride.
‘I swear half this thread is trying to convert him to jesus the other half is building a sex dungeon with adam sandler and twilight movies,’ remarked one user.
It’s startling how many users are also trying to convert Michael into the K-pop faith.
A group of Kpop fans – referring to themselves as an army – managed to get enough likes so that his bot purchased a boy band figurine, a popstar wall hanging and a 28-piece banner of popular male South Korean singers. Unfortunately folks that last item does NOT ship to United Kingdom.
One cheeky user didn’t want it to end.
‘Y’all we should suggest things on Amazon that are only available for PRE-ORDER so that he continues to receive items MONTHS after this ends.’
Fortunately for Michael, and for the Amazon warehouse team who are probably working furiously to source these niche, cursed products buried under mountains of stock, after 24 hours Michael shut down the bot and thanked his fellow netizens for ‘playing’.
His new bedroom is going to look wild but we sure do stan this nifty way to get some new followers.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/11/youtuber-asks-people-to-decorate-his-room-using-a-twitter-bot-10901426/
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