In the UK, the Twitter community is going crazy. The reason for this is the hashtag “Prince of Pegging”. While the first term refers to Prince William, the second alludes to a sexual practice. How the trend came about and what it is all about.
Anyone who has been on Twitter in the past few hours can’t avoid the hashtag “Prince of Pegging” (Editor’s note: “Pegging” is an anal sexual practice). In the late evening hours of Thursday in Great Britain, he was even number 1 in the Twitter trends with over 55,000 posts. And the hashtag is also spreading rapidly in Germany and other European countries such as France.
The social media trend started with an Instagram post from the Gossip portal “DeuxMoi”. Das writes about himself: “This account does not claim that the information published is based on fact.”
The page, which is followed by 1.5 million people, published an anonymous letter, which read, among other things: “The British royal’s extramarital affair is an open secret in the aristocratic circles in England and the subject of every party. I was told that the reason for the affair was a penchant for pegging, which the wife was too prudish for.”
The letter goes on to say that the wife would accept extramarital affairs if her husband got his money’s worth sexually. However, this must be done under the condition that the relationship remains purely physical. However, this was not the case with the last woman.
After these lines, the Internet made sense that the British royal described must be Prince William. Finally, in 2019, rumors circulated that he cheated on Duchess Kate with her friend Rose Hanbury. But the same applies here: These claims are based on pure speculation.
However, none of this prevents Twitter users from happily continuing to spread the hashtag “Prince of Pegging”. So-called memes, i.e. a combination of a humorous line and an image, are particularly popular. And most of them fall into the Schadenfreude category.
Here are a few samples: “The next season of ‘The Crown’ could be really interesting.” Protecting her might have protected him from today” and “Now we know what people mean when they wonder if Prince William will ever be able to ascend the throne”.
Particularly spicy: The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair also joined the Twitter memes
These puns may be funny for the Internet community, but certainly less for Duchess Kate and Prince William. In any case, the hashtag “Prince of Pegging” shows how quickly rumors based on free speculation can spread on social media. By the way, “Twitter” means “chirping”. How fitting.
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