If you logged into Twitter over the New Year weekend and wondered why on earth ‘Bean Dad’ became a trending topic with over 100k tweets, here is everything you need to know.
Last Saturday, Musician and podcaster John Roderick took to tweeting an anecdote about his peckish 9-year-old daughter requesting some baked beans over a total of 23 tweets. However, Roderick did not receive the reaction he expected and social media blew up.
Instead of helping his daughter to open the can of baked beans, Roderick decided to turn this into a ‘teaching moment’, whereby she learned how to use a can opener. The punchline of Roderick’s tweets was that it took six hours for the frustrated nine-year-old to open the beans.
Clearly, the chaotic tone did not sit well with Twitter users, who expressed over the weekend ‘she’s 9,’ framing Roderick as an ‘Apocalypse Dad’, and emphasising that it took ‘SIX HOURS’.
This was not the reaction Roderick had expected, deciding to delete his thread and delete his Twitter account. On Tuesday, he even issued a lengthy apology on his website, where he cited his angle as ‘the asshole dad’ on his ‘comedic persona’.
Roderick went on to state his ‘ignorance and sensitivity to the message that my “pedant dad” comedic persona was indistinguishable from how abusive dads act, talk, and think.’
The styled ‘Bean Dad’ went on to apologise for ‘the many racist, anti-Semitic, hurtful and slur-filled tweets’ from his early days on Twitter which he now viewed as inappropriate. Roderick admitted that whilst he was making light of religion, in many cases, it was not his place to.
