Netizens found MCMC tweets from 2013. And they are hilariously offensive

Note: This article was originally written on January 12th 2021 and updated on December 24th 2021.

The way the government and many of our politicians have been handling the current flood crisis has left many unhappy Malaysians flooding social media with their criticisms. So then the politicians took note, made the necessary changes, and made Malaysia a better place selamat aman maju jaya.

Just kidding. The MCMC asked Twitter to take the posts down. 

MCMC koyak dan complain diatas 2 tweet.

1. Rina Harun buat majlis derma banjir
2. Noh Omar cakap PPS tak daftar, mangsa tak layak dapat bantuan.

So far, Twitter tak layan request MCMC.

Kerajaan nak tutup mulut Rakyat?!
#KerajaanBangsat pic.twitter.com/IFDdwGZcE3

— Joker #KerajaanBangsat (@BadBoy2662) December 22, 2021

This of course created another round of backlash when users started sharing screenshots of the emails from Twitter (who said no, btw) and led to a whole new discussion of government attempts to censor criticism. But it also reminded some people of the time the MCMC professed their love of rap and cussed out bald people on Twitter. 

Yup, because in January 2021….

Netizens found MCMC’s tweets from 2013 and turned them into memes

The first few things we saw when we looked into the topic MCMC on Twitter was screenshots after screenshots of Tweets from MCMC. It went from something like this…

…and this…

But some tweets were a bit offensive as well…

And soon enough, MCMC’s old tweets eventually became memes…

Waitamin. How did all these start in the first place?

Well, it all began with MCMC’s tweet reminding people to be courteous online. What seemed like an innocent reminder kinda backfired when netizens dug up all these ol’ (yet gold) tweets.

And netizens didn’t just stop at finding out MCMC’s old tweets. They also discovered that those tweets may not be posted by MCMC at all!

Turns out, MCMC’s Twitter account used to have a different username (aka twithandle) – @nazrulllhakim. We did a lil digging but could not find much about who this person is except for a SoundCloud and Ask.fm account with the same username.

And, apparently…

MCMC was suspected of buying a Twitter account from a form three kid?!

In the midst of this chaotic event, the original user of the MCMC Twitter account (aka @nazrulllhakim) came forward to reveal something even more… shocking. He apparently admitted to have sold his old account, which had 50,000 followers, to another person.

In his tweet, he also mentioned that it didn’t cross his mind to actually delete his old tweets as he didn’t think that the next owner would eventually sell that account to MCMC. Well, who could’ve anticipated that, right?? (Not us!)

While selling and buying Twitter accounts may seem common to some (this writer has personally seen people trying to sell their twitter accounts), it actually violates Twitter’s regulation.

Besides prohibiting people from creating fake accounts that take the identity of someone else, Twitter also mentioned in its regulations that you CANNOT buy, sell, offer or even give temporary access of your Twitter account to someone else.

And while we’re on this topic, Twitter also mentioned that you also cannot buy or sell followers and/or the engagements on your tweets (aka your retweets, likes and replies) as Twitter believes that this is a form of manipulation. *cough* We’re really not looking at anyone *cough*

Don’t believe us? Click here or the image below to read the full regulation on this:

Anyways, seeing how netizens have been suspecting MCMC of buying a Twitter account, MCMC has recently come up with a statement clarifying what was actually happening. According to its press release, MCMC mentioned that its Twitter account got hacked.

And now…

MCMC temporarily deactivated its Twitter account

Just as with anything fun in life, the series of MCMC’s hilariously offensive tweets have come to an end when people reported these tweets to the MCMC itself. This was also the reason why MCMC had quickly come up with the aforementioned press release to clear the air.

And this eventually led to MCMC temporarily deactivating its Twitter account.

But almost 6 months later, they were back on Twitter; ready to protect Malaysians from the horrible realities of the internet and other forms of online abuse. That is…. if you can get through to them.