STOPPPP.
Yesterday, Ireland took to the polls to decide whether to repeal or retain the eighth amendment.
As we now know, the country appears to have voted overwhelmingly in favour of ‘Yes’ – great news for all involved.
Today, we all waited with baited breath for the official results to come in knowing that we had all gone to our polling stations, put an ‘X’ in the box, and done our bit to make Ireland a more compassionate place.
One person who also did the above was James Kavanagh.
He announced that he had voted by sharing a GIF of a very nervous looking cat saying: “Actual footage of me putting an X on the YES box making sure I’m doing everything correctly.”
A thread: So I Tweeted this GIF of a nervous cat to express my fear of filling out my voting card accurately in the booth. pic.twitter.com/urNebup5DB
— James Kavanagh (@JamesKavanagh_) May 26, 2018
It was gas.
Some people, however, didn’t think James’s tweet was that gas at all.
In fact, they thought it was so not-gas that they decided to literally report him for filming himself while voting (which is, as we all know, not allowed).
Except, as well also know, James wasn’t filming himself. It was a GIF of a cat. A literal GIF of a cat.
James wrote:
A man got upset about this and Tweeted me back. He thought the cat was actually footage of me filming myself in the booth (which isn’t allowed). In his reply, he also @‘d the Taoiseach and a load of media in a bid to get me in trouble. pic.twitter.com/3W00p3Z0hi
— James Kavanagh (@JamesKavanagh_) May 26, 2018
I thought I might try clear things up for the distressed man and explain that I wasn’t the cat, and that it wasn’t actually footage from an attempted filming inside the polling booth. pic.twitter.com/jU30nXw3fj
— James Kavanagh (@JamesKavanagh_) May 26, 2018
This guy wasn’t satisfied though.
He couldn’t accept that this cat was not James Kavanagh and he decided to email the Data Commissioner about it.
No, really. He CC’ed James and everything.
This, however, did not satisfy the man. He then went and emailed the Data Commissioner about the crime (he thought) I had committed. And CC’d me. pic.twitter.com/BNlsVusTs7
— James Kavanagh (@JamesKavanagh_) May 26, 2018
He even attached the GIF of the cat.
And he attached this as the evidence of me filming myself. Again, just to clear it up, I am not that cat. pic.twitter.com/DqdogY1EfR
— James Kavanagh (@JamesKavanagh_) May 26, 2018
Stunning scenes.
It remains to be seen as to whether James will get in trouble for daring to share such a bold video of himself voting in yesterday’s referendum.
More to follow as we have it.
