You, too, can have a rad name like ‘Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson’
by Justine Calma from The Verge - All Posts on (#65R04)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 15: Rainn Wilson attends Jerry & Marge Go Large" premiere during the 2022 Tribeca Festival. | Photo by Dominik Bindl/WireImage
Actor Rainn Wilson (you might know him as Dwight from The Office) had a grand scheme to bring his hilarious brand of climate advocacy to Twitter this week. That plan, however, wasquickly thwarted - another victim of the name-changing drama that has flourished on the platform recently.
Wilson took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce he was changing his name on social media to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson." As a cheap little stunt to help save planet Earth I've changed my name on Twitter, Instagram, and even on my fancy writing paper," Wilson said in a video. He points to a memo pad with scrawled changes to his printed name, so that it reads Acid Rainn Kills Trees Wilson."
Some 35 minutes later, Wilson tweeted, P.S....