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Twitter Feed White Girl Problems Becomes a Book
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/31/twitter-feed-white-girl-problems-becomes-a-book-authors-on-babe-walker.html
Twitter Feed White Girl Problems Becomes a Book: Authors on Babe Walker
Jan 31, 2012 4:45 AM EST The anonymous Twitter feed has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers with hilarious musings such as “I hate my horse.” Now it will become a book. Isabel Wilkinson meets the real authors behind the phenomenon.
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That's a good one...
“You look like you’re from the Midwest.” “Casey Anthony will burn in hell for wearing a pink, ruffled top on national television.” “Osama’s been dead to me for a long time.” “I wish I could unfuck you.” This is White Girl Problems, the anonymous Twitter feed that has, for the last two years, been a source of pithy meditations on being rich, jaded, and extremely bored. The account, which came to life in March 2010, now has almost 700,000 followers and has developed into a household name. It is, perhaps, the original Shit Girls Say.
Now, White Girl Problems will become a book, out Tuesday, authored by Babe Walker, a fictionalized rich girl who personifies the Twitter account’s unique combination of apathy and total excess.
The real writers of White Girl Problems couldn’t be more different from their protagonist. There’s Tanner Cohen, a 25-year-old actor who lives in Brooklyn and wears one hand painted with gray nail polish; David Oliver Cohen, his 31-year-old brother, who is married with a kid; and Lara Schoenhals, 27, a former production assistant from Oklahoma City. Together they’re the voice of Babe, a motherless Bel-Air princess who speaks West African dialect to her Jamaican nanny, winds up in rehab for a shopping addiction ($200,000 on a single trip to Barneys!), shit-talks her therapist, and says things like “I hate my horse.”
Now, White Girl Problems will become a book, out Tuesday, authored by Babe Walker, a fictionalized rich girl who personifies the Twitter account’s unique combination of apathy and total excess.
The real writers of White Girl Problems couldn’t be more different from their protagonist. There’s Tanner Cohen, a 25-year-old actor who lives in Brooklyn and wears one hand painted with gray nail polish; David Oliver Cohen, his 31-year-old brother, who is married with a kid; and Lara Schoenhals, 27, a former production assistant from Oklahoma City. Together they’re the voice of Babe, a motherless Bel-Air princess who speaks West African dialect to her Jamaican nanny, winds up in rehab for a shopping addiction ($200,000 on a single trip to Barneys!), shit-talks her therapist, and says things like “I hate my horse.”
I like this feed almost as much as shit my dad says... https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Sample: "These candidates are dog shit. All we're doing is picking out the dick that's going to fuck us."
