Did Kevin Smith Tweets Start the Egyptian Protest?

Kevin Smith unveils his plan to self-distribute his new film Red State.

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OK, so technically Kevin Smith didn’t start those Egyptian Protests.

He rallied his troops to the Eccles, not Park City’s iconic, though decidedly smaller Egyptian Theatre at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The point remains the same—when Kevin Smith Tweets, his followers mobilize.

Perhaps it’s his aw-shucks-I’m-just-like-you-but-I-got-lucky persona. Or maybe its because he relates to his fans like they are his personal friends, going through his trials and tribulations, fighting in the trenches with him.

He’s like a whiter, fatter Tyler Perry. (WIth pot, foul language, and masturbation.)

Smith’s approach to his fans is alarmingly similar to our own master marketer, self-promoter, and independent phenom, whose emails and online chats have formed a personal connection that incites fierce loyalty.

In response to a planned protest by Westboro “GOD HATES FAGS” Baptist Church, Kevin Smith leveraged the platform of his 1.7 million Twitter congregation, to rally enough rabid fans to stage a counter protest.

An inspired piece of buzz-generating street theatre, Kevin Smith followed-up these shenanigans with an even more noteworthy performance inside after he unzipped and pulled out his “big, fat Red State cock” and showed it to everybody at a jam-packed Eccles Theatre.