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Satirizing the recent trend of fake fact-checking warnings on Twitter, The Boys shared an anti-supes one using the colorful rhetoric of Billy Butcher.

The Boyshas jumpedin on social media'slatest meme trendof producing fake Twitter warnings with a statement that, in typical The Boys fashion, reminds fans that superheroes are more problematic than whattheir PR campaigns suggest.

At first, thetweet offered a seemingly innocuous and uplifting message: "The world needs more Supes!" However, in what feels like a direct rebuttal from Billy Butcher himself, that quotewas followed up by a more "truthful" disclaimer: "This claim is a load of fucking horse shit. Fuck Supes and fuck Vought."

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Some Twitter userswere unable to read the faux-warning due to its bolded font, however. One user posted an image of thetweet with its lower half redacted and replaced with rectangles,writing, "what a fantastic tweet, if only I could see it though." In response, The Boysposted an image of the original, fully uncensored post below, reassuring that user, "We got you, mate."

This jab at Twitter's warning labels -- atrend thatarose out of mockery towards the disclaimers put on DonaldTrump's false claims aboutelection fraud in the 2020 Presidential election --feels on-brand with howThe Boys regularly satirizesmodern pop cultureobsessions likesuperhero fandom and social media. The latter was heavily featured in Season 2as a toolused by Stormfront to generate support for her alt-right/literal Nazi crusade, winning over millions of devoted followers through memes and livestreams to the initial annoyance, and later admiration, of Homelander. It also pokes fun at how Vought -- a pharmaceutical mega-corporation with departments for running the variousmedia campaigns whichpaintthe Seven and other supes as altruistic figures -- works against the purposeof Twitter warnings calling out suchfalse statements.

Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander and Aya Cash as Stormfront. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Ben Wasserman is a graduate of NYU's M.A. Cinema Studies Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. He's previously written for the pop culture websites ComicsVerse and mxdwn Movies- as well as mxdwn's film editor from 2019-2020- and currently writes reviews for the website Film-Forward. Ben loves all things film, television, gaming and comic-related, especially when it comes to Marvel.

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