Scott Baio

"Joanie loves Chachi." I'm sure we've all heard it. But, where did it come from? Most people aren't aware that it is from the popular American Sitcom Happy Days, which was broadcasted in the 1970's and 80's. Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola were two of the more well known characters in the show, played by Erin Moran and Scott Baio. Baio is still an actor, but he's creating headlines a different way nowadays. You guessed it, he tweets. 

In 2010, Baio was stirring up some controversy when he tweeted about Michelle Obama. Baio is a vocal republican who tweeted "WOW He wakes up to this every morning," Along with the picture above. C'mon man, she's the first lady, you cant just go around tweeting stuff like this. Not surprisingly, his followers were not amused and began leaving him instructions to kill himself and calling him a racist idiot. Then he tweeted, "I'm NOT racist for posting a pic of M.O. My WIFE'S BEST FRD IS BLACK,HELLO" and "Do I look like I'm racist? This is Renee's BEST frd. STOP USING THE RACE CARD!!!" along with the picture below. What are you talking about? That is the most ridiculous set of tweets i've ever heard. Baio later tweeted that he was up to 5000 because people "love to hate".

"People love to hate" bears a lot of similarities to the Iranian "Twitter Revolution" in 2009. Maio was saying, about his increase in followers, that people only followed him because of what he was saying and what was going on. In Iran, the protesters could all used Twitter to communicate with each other. The people were only following what each other was saying just because something exciting was going on. Its not surprising nowadays that when something like the Iran Protests and Maio's comments happens, people pay attention. Why, cause its exciting? The stuff like Maio's comments is what makes me love the stupid stuff people post on twitter. So Maio, #Cheers to you.