Update: Sorry folks, it seems like this whole story is most likely a hoax and some unsavoury concerns have been raised over the people involved in the story.
Original Story: Over the last few days, a teenage girl has gone viral on Twitter after using a number of unorthodox devices to send tweets to her followers and we have to say, we're pretty impressed.
The series of humorous tweets began on 5th August when @thankunext327, an avid Ariana Grande fan named Dorothy, tweeted from her Nintendo 3DS to announce that her mother had taken her phone away. In a somewhat dramatic message, she said, "ill miss u all sm. im crying. goodbye".
Later that day, the following tweet appeared on Dorothy's account, this time from the phone-confiscating mother. It reads, "I seen that Dorothy has been using twitter on her Nintendo. This account will be shut down now".
And so, the 3DS was gone, too. But that didn't stop good ol' Dorothy. A couple of tweets soon appeared from the Wii U's social media Image Share function. These modern consoles sure do come in handy, huh?
As it turns out, she didn't find her phone, but she did find her 3DS. The next couple of days went quite smoothly, with a couple of tweets coming in from her 3DS just like before, but then things took a very unexpected turn.
The 3DS was once again confiscated, as was the Wii U by the looks of things, as Dorothy was forced to use her LG smart fridge. Genius.
Somehow, we don't think Mom will be taking away the fridge any time soon.
Funnily enough, the whole situation has caused multiple accounts - such as the official Twitter account and fridge maker LG to share the hashtag #FreeDorothy.
Well played, Dorothy. Well played.
[source twitter.com]
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Wow. I can't imagine Twitter ever being that important to me.
*Are we certain there are no safeguarding issues going on behind the scenes?
Brilliant! #FreeDorothy
So... it is possible to send a tweet using just a fridge? Surely not. PC connected to fridge? Is that a thing?
Bloody hell the quality of the articles on this website continue to nosedive.
Random or not.
So we're supposed to be rooting for a daughter who's finding ways to circumvent her parent's discipline. Not really the best message to endorse, Nintendolife.
That or this is all fake, not very believable, and, overall, not even that funny a joke.
I see this as more of a post on a meme blog or image board. Also you've got to admit, as much as I understand that I wouldn't have some of my friends that I have without Twitter. This girl obviously did something to deserve this.
Brilliant hashtag from LG aside... that girl either needs help or a couple of slaps from her parents - you choose.
@Ooyah There are Smart fridges out there with many of them running Android OS.
It's just a matter of logging into twitter via the web browser or even download the Twitter App from the google play store.
So yes you can tweet from your fridge or check recipes & school Holidays, even for the more adventurous play Doom.
Oh God, get a life (off the web).
Looks like massive click-bait to me, look she is even hash-tagging LG
Maybe she should play the awesome games on the WiiU and DS? She’d have a much more satisfying life than tweeting.
@Kienda different people enjoy different things.
https://mobile.twitter.com/successfuliana/status/1158624476206120965
Yeah there’s a lot more to this story than shown here. Might want to rethink having this article up.
Internet Addiction is the new thing for teens.
They don't understand the concept of 'stop it'.
This kid now has random people egging her on, like OJ Simpson.
They're just enjoying the spectacle of someone blowing everything.
She was able to do it from her fridge but the switch wouldn’t even let her
What a sad situation. I mean why would a young person care so much about about twitter, why does the internet give a toss and it’s all very disrespectful towards the parents. Sad very sad. Someone turn off the internet please. It needs to be restarted.
Looks fake. Like most on Twitter.
@MJayVevo 🙃 I have no idea what's going on 🙃
Dreadful clickbait article. Most of the time phones are taking away for a good reason. So don't know why she is being praised . Just seems she is self centred and has no respect for parents and thinks she's entitled too do want she wants
So many ways to say absolutely nothing....
@Ooyah smart fridges essentially have phones built into them
she runs an obsessive Ariana Grande fan twitter account 😂 the dedication to something so pointless is honestly somewhat impressive
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@GamerDad66 nothing new for teens, I see plenty of adults being addicted to their phones too, plenty of times a parent gives more attention to their phone than their child, or give their child a phone to "shut it up"
And I'm not talking about young parents, also the ones in their 30s/40s and older, smartphone addiction and Social media addiction is something that happens to people of all ages, and the worst thing is that stuff like friends, school, work, family and the world don't really help getting rid of it.
I most of the time don't have that issue, but from my own experience it is so damn hard to not get addicted to your phone, especially when your friends, school but mostly work (my own experience) expect you to be there for them on that goddamn thing 24/7.
And I've heard so many times people saying "ignore it" or "get a different job" but it does not work that way, the irony is that most people that put it that easily I spoke to are addicted themself but refuse to see it that way.
@suikoden not always most of the time, I've seen plenty of parents taking away a phone from their child because addiction but the parents themself are addicted to those cursed things too but use the excuses "I am the parent so that's not possible"
Reminds me of my parents, I'm 30 and they keep complaining I have one, but I am not addicted to it, they on the other hand are (smartphones are truly a curse)
In this case her parents did the right thing, but most parents don't (as a parent start with being the good example, punishing a child for something you do yourself (certain 18+ exceptions aside) never made sense to me)
Kitchenware is getting smart! My new microwave has wi-fi. I tried to play my Lasagne online but my latency was terrible. I was waiting 6 minutes for a ping!
Twitter is still like a foreign world to me.
Slow news day huh.
@sanderev It is fake. It's already been confirmed that there's no Twitter app for said refrigerator.
@Shepdawg1 prime example of an adult who adults too much. You're on a Nintendo fan site, calm yourself.
Smart enough to tweet from a fridge but not smart enough to know the public library can let her use a computer.
@GrailUK our washing machine has a app and you can use certain functionality with it.
I hate it, but it wasn't me who bought it...
@HikaruKitsune but it has a browser which is enough to use Twitter.
@MJayVevo The only thing I gathered from that entire link is that quite a few people need to unplug from social media.
@blackbox64 nope, what makes you say that?
Omg this was hilarious, 😂
Bless her.
Very random indeed. I still believe some kids need a gentle motivation to behave, like a big slap on the face every now and then.
@Rhaoulos without copy pasting my upper comment, first slapping a child won't solve anything, second most parents/adults aren't any better nowdays online and with their addiction to smartphones and Social media.
In most cases childeren AND parents need to behave, especially the latter because they should give the good example themself.
And yes if the parents try and fail but the child does wrong then doing something about it (like in this case taking away their phone) could be the solution, sadly nowdays I see more and more adults and parents complaining about what young people or their childeren do wrong, but they themself do the same wrong things.
It is a issue across all ages, and a knife cuts always on both edges.
That's just sad
What a sad lack of intelligence all round...
@Shepdawg1 Yeah, exactly, I came here to say this. As funny as it is that she’s tweeting off of her 3DS, Wii U, and fridge, she obviously must have done something to deserve getting her phone taken away, and therefore doesn’t deserve to be “freed”.
@SBandy I actually like this article.
LG’s tweet is hilarious, lol!
What a trooper
@Rayquaza2510 “(as a parent start with being the good example, punishing a child for something you do yourself (certain 18+ exceptions aside) never made sense to me)”
As Iron Man once said “And I wanted you to be better”.
That pretty much covers it
@Bunkerneath She did not hashtag LG.
How the heck did this make her famous? From 2013-2016 I only had my 3DS to do anything online. 2013 was the first time I ever got on the internet, and all I had was my 3DS to get me by. This is some BS xD
@Rayquaza2510 Who better to tell someone not to eat too much candy than someone with diabetes? Who better to tell someone not to steal than a thief? Perhaps it's hypocritical to punish your child for the same thing you do, but what's the harm in wanting your child to turn out better than you?
Good god, her parents are billionaires!! How can I tell? She owned a Wii U, something only like 100,000 other people in the world can say! It's not like Wii U sold 10 or 15 million systems, nope, it was only on the market for 4 1/2 months, not 4 1/2 years, because it failed, meaning not even 1 million systems were sold to the world.
Reminds me of how my cousin violated a hipaa by telling the world on Twitter of her sisters new medical conditions. She even got a visit from the police and a hefty fine. The fine screwed the whole family as she couldn't pay it so she turned to the rest of the family... Then she posted on Twitter again another HIPPA violation because no one can tell her what to do.
Once again NL not doing much actual backround work to see just how inappropriate this article truly is...
https://mobile.twitter.com/successfuliana/status/1158624476206120965
@Sahnec It is impressive. It reminds me of my dedication to trying to recreate every theme park I went to in Rollercoaster Tycoon, when I was 9. They were consistent; always unfinished.
She sounds truly pathetic.
2019: you can ban a person from Twitter, but you can't ban Twitter from a person.
I reckon the girl must also be under house arrest... or have so-called 'internet cafés' gone extinct worldwide by now?
I think it's pretty dangerous for people to interfere in the way a parent looks after their child.
@Rayquaza2510 i disagree, the problem with most kids these days is they don’t get enough discipline. fear / pain is a great motivator (which is why we use it to break soldiers, eg boot camp). problems come when this technique is overused but the entire reason you see kids running around now acting a-fool is because of parents not slapping the sh*t outta their kids when they deserve it.
@MJayVevo Right. This is a fake and so many news outlets fell for it. Unfortunately NL is one of them.
@antdickens Because she's a fake. See @MJayVevo link above.
This sounds really stupid. But I have to admit, Dorothy is pretty smart.
I thought this was pretty funny, even if it is fake 😂
God save us from this utter banailty of uninteresting peoples lives.
HAHAHA. What is wrong with this generation? Lol
Wow. Why would the mother just take away her electronics?
Sounds like a very rude person.
@nintendork64 thanks, we're looking into it!
Boy I have a story relating to this from like 6 years ago:
When I was 15 and my parents took away my 3DS and Wii U. I enjoyed hangning around on Miiverse so much that I couldn't bare to not be on it. The reason they took it away was over some delayed punishment over my grades even though they took it away from me because I fought with my brother and pushed the reason onto my grades. Now before you say I was in the right or wrong... I managed to take back my stuff and they caught me twice and the second time where I refused to give them my 3DS games they threatened to disown me and my racist parents said they'd put me in foster care with "blacks" over 3DS games and I'll never see anyone I know ever again. Before you say they were just scaring me, they forced me to get dressed and drive me to who knows where. Even if they weren't serious, that's still a messed up thing to do to your own child. Sure I doubt this girls' mother is as bad as fine but my point was to anyone saying the kid circumventing the punishment is the only one in the wrong here.
While I appreciate the ingenuity (if this isn't indeed fake), clearly the phone was taken away for a reason. I'm sorry, but I can't endorse someone who's blatantly circumventing a punishment and doesn't seem to be learning anything from it.
@Rhaoulos On the face is a horrible idea, and the parents should be arrested for child abuse. You're only going to make the kid mentally screwed up.
There's a lot more to this story. If I were NL, I'd be searching around that Twitter thread people have linked. Nothing about this girl adds up...
>Confiscates fridge
Funniest thing (or saddest thing, depending on how you look at it) of the original article that this article is based upon, is that once again, it is painfully obvious how general media still don't know the difference between a Wii and a Wii U:
"Over the next few days, Dorothy tweeted several more times and claimed she had found other devices with access to Twitter, including her Nintendo Wii."
And what makes the article writer extra stupid, is that there's a picture in the very article underneath that sentence, clearly showing a #WiiU and mentioning "Wii U Image Share"...
It would have been heccin' hilarious if this was real. I'm disappointed.
@gamefreak77
I got my Wii U on Christmas 2015.
The Wii U came out in 2012.
Not a few months. More like 3 years.
Thank you Nintendo life, for another quality piece of relevant gaming journalism l, that is totally not social media attention grabbing BS from some drama queen.
Oh, wait... 🙄
What is wrong with everybody? Jesus Nintendo Life comment section is always such a debbie downer, this is a lighthearted joke, not a damn life lesson, seriously this is a little laugh, also PS none of you guys were perfect when you were children/teens, deal with it.
@patbacknitro18 there is nothing wrong with that, but in my opinion parents should stop using the excuse to not change themself.
If you as a parent punish your child from something stupid you do, because you don't want it to become like you then that is fine, but such parents should stop being lazy and start to change themself too.
That's my point.
@tekknik I know people that had or have such parents, that method doesn't work because it is based on fear, not true discipline.
Punishing a child and learning it what is bad or good is 1, but your method will only work in front of the person they fear, outside of it their discipline vanishes like ice on a hot day, you don't learn such a kid nothing for when they get older, sometimes you make it even worse
And I also know some people saying they thank their parents for using your method in the end, but when you know them and dig deeper you see it only made their lives worse, and that they learned nothing from it.
@Ajent that's true but many parents use it as a excuse, my own included (even now after all these years I started to live on my own)
OMG get a life and do something that is important than tweeting
its like that girl couldn't be stop, l bet her mind becomes CRAZY if she couldn't find a way to tweet on twitter.
I find this hilarious. Question is though, how the heck did the mother find out about the 3DS Internet Browser and the way to use it? I remember I had to teach my mom how to play Mario Kart 7. She didn't know what the buttons were and how to get the game going. She played the Wii and Wii U version before, but now she doesn't have time for those anymore. I still have my Wii with Mario Kart Wii and Super Paper Mario, and it still works.
lol geez this is gold
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