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2025-06-26 14:45:36 [Digital Culture] Source: Happiness Information Network

Twitter became slightly more tolerable when a group of mascots started a wholesome thread hyping each other up.

Mascots don't get enough credit -- inside every massive costume,Request Movies there's a human being working hard to make money.

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User @iPurrple tweeted a mirror selfie on Tuesday wearing the Baskin-Robbins mascot costume at work, captioning it, "Wake up hustlers, let's get this bread. No days off."

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His tweet, which he insists "isn't even [his] best work," blew up overnight, getting reposted on Diplo's Instagram story and rising to the front page of Reddit.

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Redditors supported @iPurrple's hustle. "This person is making an honest dollar working a shit 9-5, There’s just no way I can hate on this, I feel for them," u/jack12380 commented.

"All work is honorable," u/firesideflea agreed.

The tweet also spurred fellow mascots to tweet their own mirror selfies.

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Others on Twitter joined in.

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Soon, mascots in the comments were hyping each other up.

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It's not the first time @iPurrple has joked about working hard. In May, he tweeted nearly the same thing, except with photos of someone dressed as Ronald McDonald.

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No matter how terrible the news cycle seems, just remember that somewhere in the void that is Twitter there is a thread of mascot mirror selfies.

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