Ed Balls

The man. The myth. The Ed. The Balls.

Ed Balls is a British politician in the Labour Party, who is apparently no stranger to controversy after getting caught red handed trying to usurp power like a typical American or European politician.

He's also somewhat of a minor Twitter celebrity, or an enigma of social media, depending on how you interpret the following meta-tweet.

The tweet that started it all

"Sorry... But this is getting really weird.." - Ed Balls response to this photo

Originally tweeted on April 28th, 2011, it has since become somewhat of a holiday on Twitter as of 2013. It's possible that Mr. Balls was trying to search for tweets mentioning his name without directly @mentioning his handle, but ended up tweeting his own name and thus creating a legend in the process, but no one really knows why he tweeted his own name, or why it became so popular.

As of this writing, the tweet itself has 20,969 retweets and 8,475 favorites.

It doesn't seem to be a forced meme, or 15 minutes of fame since this weirdness has been going on for a while. All we know is this: ED BALLS!!

Other happenings

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