Oxlade Sparks Birthday Buzz With Spider Man Pose

Near October 2023, the birthday shout-out by a Twitter user, MBAH, went viral, thus putting Oxlade on the chopping board. ‘WORLD OXLADE DAY’ was the unadulterated text, accompanied by the cake emoji, spurring reactions from well-wishing to all manners of roasting about the classic Spider Man pose.

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The tweet featured Oxlade in what would soon become the chaos in the replies: his now-famous crouched pose, limbs akimbo as if engaged in a superheroic landing. Yusuph || tech 📊📉📈 kicked it off with an ‘Oshey spider man,’ a Nigerian slang of sorts, to essentially hype the pose. Quite a few others were not having it, though. ‘You mean world scorpion day?’ was Mazi Akinola’s retort, a smooth backhand comparison of the pose with angry scorpion-like flair. ‘Pose like Toofan 🤣🤣’ was Leklaw001 laying down the hammer on the popular Ivorian duo known for a rather obnoxious choreography.

While the roasting tsunami was on, plenty of love from fans. KIRA 🤍 tagged Oxlade’s handle to send him wishes. Animus fortis was more Portuguese: ‘Happy Birthday Lãoshi Oxlade.’ Randomest interjection came from AddyUkay confessing out of the blue, ‘I miss Oxford cabin biscuits fr’ – proof that Twitter has the ability to veer any conversation off course for nostalgia’s sake.

By then, BarcaLakers05 had already gone on a rant about crop tops in Nigeria, to which CHEFJOJO001 replied, ‘Where that video?😂😂😂.’ Which one? Not specified. Sirpwlrd added more mystery by pleading ‘Abeg who get that his video where him dey play ball abeg,’ from where a small side-thread discussing whether oxlade was playing any form of sport with the girls arose.

In all that Twittery things, captured is that Oxlade’s slightly loved and slightly roasted spirit. He gives us music we swoon over, but these poses? Extra! Memes for days. Regardless of whether these poses give you famous Spider-Man vibes or the scorpion glare or Toofan moves, the one thing which you can be sure of is that Oxlade knows how to keep the conversations rolling. For real; crop-top criticism was quite uncalled for-let him rock his superhero dreams.

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The birthday love (and roasting) foregrounding the fact that Oxlade occupies this unique space whereby his fans celebrate him, while not afraid to hit with rather harsh humor. It’s this then makes Nigerian Twitter so enjoyable to languish on. If only someone would…find that elusive basketball video everyone wants to talk about.