Elmo Is Being Absolutely Dragged Over His Most Recent Tweet

Well, it appears everyone is after Elmo.

Elmo, a red furry puppet from Sesame Street, appears next to a person wearing a denim jacket
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It all started with this completely innocuous tweet from the fuzzy red muppet showing how he could count:

Twitter: @elmo

That little post has garnered thousands and thousands of reactions, and a lot of them are negative.

Social media post with 3.1K comments, 10K shares, 151K likes, and 3K saves

It appears it set a bunch of people off.

Tweet by JP Lockwood (@jplockwood27): "Not really that cool, I can do it too."
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"He's not special," this person said.

Profile image of a cat. Text: "Kells @Uncxvil I can count to 20 too, he’s not special."
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"I'm not impressed. not one bit," another person chimed in.

Tweet by @psyfxz saying, "im not impressed. not one bit."
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Another person challenged him to go to 30.

Twitter post by user @kookiecrumbl: "shut up bitch count to 30."
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And this person wanted him to do something about the port strike. It's never enough!

Tweet by coach nick (@drbeanwell) asking Elmo to address port strike
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I'm not exaggerating when I'm saying this tweet has thousands of retweets and replies! People went after him!

Tweet by Sascha Vogel saying, "Elmo you've been 3.5 for 44 years. I hope you would have learned how to count to 20 by now."
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But let's not focus on that!

Twitter: @pigeon_lmao

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A bunch of people have also come to Elmo's defense.

Twitter: @ToothDroid

"Keep it up," this person said.

Twitter: @BLoadin_

"Nice job," another person replied.

Twitter: @UhThisIsAWendys

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And this person said, "For a 3 year old this is quite impressive."

Twitter: @RealPbg

Anyway, this tweet is further proof our society's expectations of muppets have gone too far. Let's keep it civil out there, people. I'm sure some of y'all can't count that high either.

Elmo puppet posing cheerfully in front of a backdrop with various international Sesame Street logos
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