INT. PARTY
MIKE and DAVE are chatting. Music and party is heard in the
background.
DAVE
I think I'm gonna delete my
twitter.
Mike is taken aback.
MIKE
(whispering nervously)
You're kidding, right?
DAVE
No, I'm really gonna do it.
MIKE
Shit... is everything ok?
DAVE
...yeah?
MIKE
(still whispering)
There's gotta be something wrong.
Mike pauses to think for a moment, before yelling to call the
room to attention:
MIKE (CONT'D)
HEY EVERYBODY!
(getting some responses)
Everybody! Quit talking for a
second! Shit, someone get the music-
(the music stops)
We have a situation.
WOMAN IN THE CROWD (NOT NECESSARILY
VISIBLE)
What is it?
MIKE
Dave here's considering biting the
big one. Calling it quits. Dave
here wants to wipe his own twittery
self of the face of the earth.
Crowd MURMURS.
DAVE
Shit, guys-
MIKE
(speaking half to Dave and
half to the crowd)
Is it something we did, Dave? Is it
something we didn't do?
DAVE
There's nothing-
MIKE
Ohdon'tsaythat. I know-
(yelling)
By show of hands, who here is
followed by Dave on twitter?
A good chunk of the crowd (let's say 8-10 people) raise their
hands.
MIKE (CONT'D)
Ok - and now: how many of you
follow dave on twitter?
Everyone in the chunk keeps their hand raised-except for one
guy-DJANGLETHORPE.
MIKE (CONT'D)
Who was tha-!? What the fuck,
Djanglethorp?
DJANGLETHORPE
I'm sorry!
MIKE
No wonder he's about to take
drastic action, he's got asshole
friends like-
WOMAN IN CROWD (NOT NECESSARILY THE
SAME WOMAN)
Hey Djanglethorpe, do you follow
me?
DJANGLETHORPE
Uhh-no?
WOMAN IN CROWD
(angry)
That's shitty! I follow you!
MAN IN CROWD
I just checked, he never followed
me back either!
Crowd GETS ANGRY.
CROWD VOICES+MIKE (TAKE WHATEVER
LINES)
What the fuck, Djanglethorp? What
an asshole! Yeah jeez.
The abuse continues until...
DAVE
(a light is shining down
on him from the cieling
now)
I did it.
The abuse of Djanglethorp abruptly stops and the room goes
SILENT.
DAVE (CONT'D)
(a peaceful smile on his
face)
I deleted my twitter.
More silence, broken by the sounds of a girl crying on a
shoulder. The room watches on as Dave ascends, the beam of
light making him disappear as he drifts upward, out-of-frame.
FADE TO BLACK.
FADE IN:
(SUBTITLE)
In memoriam: @digitaldave87
Above the subtitle is displayed Dave's avatar photo, which is
a photoshopped photo of him that makes it look like he's in
cyberspace. He's excited. Poor little guy. We'll miss 'em.