Musician, radio host and presenter John Tesh grew to become a trending subject on Twitter at present after he introduced his departure from the platform in favor of Parler, a social community favored by conservatives and right-wing personalities.
In a submit yesterday earlier than deleting his verified Twitter account, Tesh mentioned he was leaving and urged his followers to “say goodbye to viciousness and censorship.”
Although he didn’t present examples of what he was referring to, Tesh had tweeted a hyperlink to Parler on Saturday, describing it as a “much nicer place.” Before its deletion, Tesh had 136,573 Twitter followers, in response to analytics platform Social Blade.
Memes and jokes unfold throughout Twitter at present, with some customers seemingly unaware who Tesh is, why he was initially related and why it issues that he has gone. There had been so many posts that his identify was within the prime 10 most trending matters at present.
“John Tesh deleted his Twitter account and went to Parler. Serious question, did anyone know he was on Twitter?” learn one widely-circulated tweet from a well-followed profile with the deal with @NotHoodlum. Another submit featured a picture of former Trump aide Steve Bannon with the caption: “I’m gonna tell my grandkids this is John Tesh.”
As the pattern unfold, many customers had been seemingly unaware of Tesh’s profession, asking “who is John Tesh?” Other customers mentioned they didn’t know that he was ever on the web site.
John Tesh left Twitter on the identical day most individuals realized he was on Twitter. 🤷‍♀️
— JenLars (@TheJenLars) November 16, 2020
John Tesh, first ten years he’s on Twitter: *posts inspirational nonpartisan content material that will get principally no engagement*
John Tesh, two weeks after 2020 election: Man, this place censors individuals, comply with me on Parler
— Ernie “Roundball Rock” Smith (@BriefFormErnie) November 16, 2020
Oh no! John Tesh has left Twitter? HOW we could EVER get BY? Alas! Alack! Oh! WOE is WE!
(Psst!… who’s John Tesh?)
— Loretta Sue Ross ⚖ (@lorettasueross) November 16, 2020
For anybody unaware, Tesh has loved a prolonged and various profession spanning a wide range of mediums, together with radio, tv, information broadcasting and music. He was a co-host of the favored TV program Entertainment Tonight between 1986 and 1996.
According to his web site biography, he has six Emmys, two Grammy nominations, 4 gold information, seven Public Television specials and has bought eight million information.
He hosts the syndicated radio present Intelligence for Your Life. His YouTube account, which has over 12,000 subscribers, contains a lot of his stay performances.
Tesh was identified with a uncommon type of prostate most cancers and given 18 months to stay in 2015, in response to an interview with The New York Post in February this yr. He mentioned he’s now wholesome however indicated that he doesn’t obtain common check-ups.
“I got cancer the same exact year almost to the month my dad died of cancer. DNA is not programmed like that—I manifested that cancer in my body because I worried about it my whole life,” Tesh was cited as saying within the Post interview.
According to his Parler profile, which doesn’t have a foremost picture on the time of writing, Tesh signed up roughly one week in the past and has amassed greater than 4,000 followers to this point. He is following 21 profiles, together with Senator Ted Cruz, Fox host Maria Bartiromo, radio present character Dan Bongino and the political activist James O’Keefe.
In his most-recent Parler submit, Tesh pitches the idea of “divine healing,” suggesting to followers the phrase of God can “destroy disease in the human body.”
Downloads of the Parler app surged prior to now week within the wake of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump within the 2020 election, with some leaving Twitter citing the web site’s repeatedly flagging of the president’s posts as a cause for leaving the platform.
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