Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection

Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection
A blurry, blue-tinted image of Jack Nicholson with the word "DRIL" in all caps
Author dril
Illustrator dril
Publisher Self-published
Publication date
 August 21, 2018
Pages 420
ISBN 978-1724941688

Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection is the first book by dril, a pseudonymous Twitter user known for his absurdist humor. The book is the author's compilation of the account's best tweets from its first ten years, alongside new original illustrations.

The book received generally positive reviews. Even though the book's written material was already available online for free, critics agreed that the compilation's quality justified its publication.

Development

The @dril Twitter account began posting in September 2008; in the years that followed, dril became well-known for his idiosyncratic humor and accrued a cult following. In January 2017, dril opened a Patreon account for fans to make monthly payments in support of his tweets and future projects, including "video, illustration, and long-form writing."[1] On the Patreon, dril described his plans for two book projects:

as I believe I've mentioned earlier, I am working on two (2) new books, and as of right now your generous contributions are mainly funding the completion of these projects: [...] BOOK #1: Just absolutely, cover to cover, the worst bullshit imaginable [...] all loosely tied together with a narrative adjacent to the 'Mythos' surrounding my posts. [...] BOOK #2: a lot of people ask me for a 'Best of' release, like some kind of coffee table book of my top posts, and while I think a book containing nothing but short messages you can easily dig up online would be sort of Shitty, I decided to make it worthwhile by filling the thing up with new stuff as well.[2]

dril self-published the compilation project as Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection in August 2018.[3]

Content

The 420-page book compiles 1,500 of the account's best posts from its first ten years, as selected by the author.[3] The compiled tweets are sorted into topic areas by chapter, which are presented alphabetically.[4] Individual tweets do not include the date they were originally published.[4] The book features 70 new illustrations by dril.[3] According to its preface, the book was published to preserve dril's posts in the event of a societal collapse that destroys Twitter's servers, ensuring that his work "permeates the hearts and minds of post-collapse generations, in order to prevent the whole of humanity from reverting to the way of the cave man."[4]

Reception

In an article for Vice, Peter Slattery wrote "[o]rdinarily, throwing together a book full of old tweets would seem pretty lazy, but given how much legit influence dril has had on Twitter humor and online culture at large, everybody probably owes the account at least 20 bucks."[3] Rachel Pick, reviewing the book for Vice, concluded that the book was worth it "so that one day, centuries from now, after the bombs go off and EMPs take out the electrical grid, long after Twitter has died, a solitary wanderer may find a scrap of paper buried in the ruins of my Brooklyn apartment building, and they will lift it up to the dying sun and squint through their protective goggles to read" a dril tweet.[5] Bijan Stephen at The Verge said that, "[d]espite literally being a book of tweets, Mr. Ten Years chronicles Dril's rise from a funny writer to a writer who's defined the way people write and think about internet culture."[4] In an article for HuffPost, Sean T. Collins called the book "simply too funny for me to read for more than a page or two at a time without laughing so hard, I feel physically ill."[6]

Citations

  1. ↑ Colburn, Randall (January 20, 2017). "Get Involved, Internet!: Donate to Twitter god dril's Patreon so he can 'create Hell'". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ dril (February 21, 2017). "'what is this shit. why am i giving you money'". Patreon. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Slattery, Peter (August 23, 2018). "Dril, the Only Account on Twitter, Has a Book Now". Vice. Vice Media. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Stephen, Bijan (September 27, 2018). "@Dril Is the Best Chronicler of the Internet's Last Decade". The Verge. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Pick, Rachel (August 28, 2018). "Cowards and Trolls Log Off: Dril's New Book Is Awesome". Vice. Vice Media. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Collins, Sean T. (October 5, 2018). "The Love Song of Dril and the Boys". HuffPost. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
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