Someone is trolling a US senator with Nickelback newsletters
Nickel-rolling — or the practice of trolling someone with songs, images, or lyrics from Nickelback — is a time-honored tradition at The Verge. It’s why I have the band’s not-really-seminal album Here and Now on my desk. (No one knows for sure where it came from, only that the troll is strong.) So finding out that a US senator is being nickel-rolled is like seeing a child grow up and hit it big.
Right now, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) is being bombarded with Nickelback promo materials and newsletters, apparently because someone signed him and his family members up for them. He’s not pleased about it:
To whoever just subscribed my email accts (family, work, obsolete) to multiple @Nickelback promotional & fan newsletters:
It’s. Not. Funny.
— Ben…
