WASHINGTON, Okla. — An Oklahoma college student brought her grandfather some Twitter fame after she tweeted a picture of him appearing to be sadly eating a burger.
According to Kelsey Harmon, she and her five other cousins were invited to dinner by their grandfather on Wednesday, but only she showed up.
The Northeastern State University student said her grandfather, whom she calls Papaw, made 12 burgers for his six grandkids.
The tweet was retweeted more than 130,000 times in about 36 hours.
The story that Harmon tweeted gained so much traction, it made it to Twitter's "moments" page, which tracks trending tweets and compiles them into a feed.
According to BuzzFeed, some people on Twitter found Brock Harmon, one of Kelsey Harmon's cousins, and one of Pawpaw's grandchildren.
It looks like Twitter went so far as to find a 2014 tweet in which Brock said he was hungry.
I am so hungry 😩😭😩😭😩
— Brock Harmon (@BHarmon_10) January 3, 2014
According to Kelsey Harmon, the spread of her tweet led to death threats against her cousins.
But Brock Harmon, perhaps after getting so many Twitter notifications, tweeted that he went to Papaw's burger dinner and that his grandfather forgave him.
GUYS DON'T WORRY!!!! I CAME TO PAPAWS HOUSE AND AM HAVING A BURGER!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/2EHVllGG2U
— Brock Harmon (@BHarmon_10) March 17, 2016
PAPAW SAID HE FORGIVES ME AND WANTS ALL OF YOU GUYS TO KNOW YA'LL ARE AWESOME FOR MAKING HIM FAMOUS👌🏼👌🏼
— Brock Harmon (@BHarmon_10) March 17, 2016
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