Ryan Reynolds Jokes About Aristotle And Mint Mobile

This hilarious promo with Ryan Reynolds continued with a time-honored philosopher dragged in the act. Reynolds wrote: ‘Was it Aristotle who said “Yes, you can have premium wireless at affordable prices”? @Mintmobile’, thus triggering a deluge of laughter and havoc with funny responses. Some took his joke too seriously, some roasted him, and some just wanted to have a good conversation about cellphone plans. Classic Twitter chaos, really.
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First: an absurd case would have to be made of the tweet for Reynolds, who, by all accounts of sarcasm, actually thought no one would bother to check for Aristotle backing a budget option for wireless, a former ad to which most took apparent offense. It was, of course, impossible for the internet, the center of controversy, to allow such a 350-word tweet to be read without its own analysis. To that, Fake History Hunter replied to the obvious, ‘No, it wasn’t.’ Thanks for that, Captain Obvious. Then another user, Marty, joined in for good measure: ‘No, it was Socrates… Jesus, read a book…’ as if Reynolds was trying to pawn this off as a fact. The dude was just joking, people.

Quite a number of replies were beginning to descend towards the drama territory. User Sherrybaby posted, ‘No product is wanted from losers who lie, harass, and tear down a man’s life. Are you “man enough” to apologize?’ Ouch! That escalated fast! Another furious response was from Pamela Loop, stating that “You and Blake are trying to ruin a good man’s life. I don’t want anything you are associated with.” Obviously there is some unrelated beef that got dragged into the comments completely, because what has that got to do with Mint Mobile? Nobody knows.

Then again, the conspiracy theorists rolled in. John Matas actually countered, ‘So your saying Ancient Aliens is correct and the aliens had set a network after all.’ Why not? I mean if Aristotle is hawking wireless plans, the aliens probably set up their own 5G towers back then in Atlantis! Alancedillo inventor (yes, that’s the user’s display name) lifted it to another level, saying, ‘Ryan! Mintmobile! Deadpool God! be ya open the door let’s talk next level for ya!! let’s talk about some zero gravity green energy!! It’s common sense! You will be unstoppable!!.’ Ouch to Ryan, better check those DMs.

Others seemed to have taken the bait, as some users made promotional-like comments into the tweet. Joey Lawson tweeted, ‘It’s a trap! After three months, you have to pay yearly to have the same rate. Also, there is no monthly plan.’ Sweet of you to warn us, Joey. Meanwhile, user Gordon09224838 blasted, ‘Your wasting Canada’s time until you have service up here!!! so we can get rid of the 3 companies who are ripping us off every day.’ Fair point. Canada’s telecom prices are awful.

And then there were some odd replies. There was this optimistic joke from King Bee: ‘Yes you can go and direct your own movie’s screening, but you have to do it from the basement.’ What does even that mean? Nobody knows? Some more laughter. For another user identified as Double D, all there was to reply to Ry was to post a gif of someone looking bewildered with ‘wait what?’ written as a caption. That’s just the mood.
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In the end, Reynolds’s tweet created what it was supposed to create: chatter. Laughter, anger-fuelled debates about whether reality itself was pretty much engaged through the roof. And if this made one Mint Mobile signing, that is already a win. What Aristotle would or would not say about wireless plans, we are lost about now.