The burner account has become a go-to method of communication for many athletes and other sports-related figures. It allows them to just look like faceless annoying trolls instead of overly paranoid insecure people (or in the case of Kevin Durant, it allows them to do both).
Unfortunately for the people who decide to do this, it leaves them vulnerable to mistakes. Like when Skip Bayless did this in 2016:
Skip Bayless forgot to switch accounts and ended up leaving himself a comment about his own show
(via @MLG_Mahal) pic.twitter.com/6CZw5DoBMS
— Someone's An Idiot (@SomeonesAnIdiot) December 19, 2016
That guy is paid a gazillion bucks to talk sports. Yikes.
With the increasing number of burners that have been discovered, the Internet has gotten better and better at figuring out potential burner accounts. The latest discovery seems to have come out of nowhere, but it happened just as he made public comments … Raiders QB Derek Carr.
Uhhhh guys I’m 99% certain I found Derek Carr’s burner account, someone only tweeting about Derek Carr and Fresno State pic.twitter.com/5JdiFB6hLM
— Tom (@TJFsports) August 5, 2020
This makes some sense because Carr just said publicly he’s tired of being disrespected, so if this is his burner as Twitter suspects, that’s all he did to basically his entire franchise:
More tweets from the deleted Derek Carr burner uncovered by @TJFsports pic.twitter.com/an8bAVpb8n
— Bird Law Expert 🇺🇦 (@RealBirdLawyer) August 5, 2020
boy Derek's teammates are not gonna like being called the worst supporting cast in the NFL by their starting QB pic.twitter.com/YHHfAELuIF
— Bird Law Expert 🇺🇦 (@RealBirdLawyer) August 5, 2020
yo @TyrellWilliams_ ask your QB about his deleted burner account at practice tomorrow pic.twitter.com/LuNG3NmISk
— Bird Law Expert 🇺🇦 (@RealBirdLawyer) August 5, 2020
And it wasn’t done there. NO ONE is safe from the wrath of Jayce Frost:
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SLANDER OF DEREK CARR'S BURNER ACCOUNT NOT EVEN JON GRUDEN pic.twitter.com/nbACUY2tZt
— Bird Law Expert 🇺🇦 (@RealBirdLawyer) August 5, 2020
Nooooo not the Hooters spokesman. Damn you Jayce, damn you.
Well as soon as these were outted, the account was deactivated. Was it Derek? Or another one of the many Carrs? Imagine David on set at NFL Network trolling his brother’s haters. That’s either hilarious or sad (a little of both).
The Vegas Raiders are off to a nice start. Just trainwreck baby.
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