Well, since then, a screenshot shared by the "satirical" news site Huzlers, which claims an 11-year-old black boy was arrested for yodelling, has gone viral.
However, the picture of the young boy is actually the police mugshot of Jarrell Milton, who was arrested in connection to a homicide in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2015. Milton was only 12 years old when he was charged with criminal conspiracy and use of a weapon to commit a felony.
Instead of being sent to prison, Jarrell was given open-ended probation and sent to Boys Town, a treatment facility in Nebraska, which supports young people with behavioural problems.
However, one Twitter user has since used the fake screenshot alongside the success story of Mason Ramsey to make a comparison between the two boys. The tweet has over 68,000 retweets with a mixture of responses.
Yodeling while White Vs Yodeling while Black πππππππ
The person who tweeted it later clarified in a reply that his tweet was a joke, pointing out that he knew the boy in the picture was not arrested for yodelling.
Yβall ainβt even let the joke take off before the backlash, so let me clarify, That lil boy was wanted for murder not no damn yodeling. That boy rough π
@StarryToronto told BuzzFeed News said the screenshot was a popular meme and that it's always used as a joke.
"Many of the people who believe itβs real are same people who believe anything they see online," he said.
He said he received aggressive comments and racial slurs from people after they realised it was fake.
ππMan I been getting called the βN-wordβ alot this year, but everytime that shit makes me laugh. This is probably a bank teller or school teacher wit a decent job thatβs angry cos they have to work wit black people everyday, so they make fake accounts to come vent on Twitterπ https://t.co/Xga5r0oSUb
However, that didn't stop some people from believing it, sharing it, and then getting angry about what they thought was a clear case of discrimination.
