While the Emmys dominated Twitter on Sunday night, a new topic has been taking over social media Monday morning. If you haven’t seen #Piggate or #Hameron trending on Twitter, let us fill you in.
On Monday morning the Daily Mail’s front page featured allegations against U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. According to a new unauthorized biography by Lord Ashcroft, Cameron allegedly put “a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth when in college. This claim of course immediately made waves across the Internet as #Piggate and #Hameron started trending. But TV fans also drew connections between the allegations and Charlie Brooker’s dystopian sci-fi series “Black Mirror.”
In the first episode of the series, “National Anthem,” a princess is kidnapped. The seemingly only way to get her back safely is for the PM to have sex with a pig on live TV (that’s “Black Mirror” for ya). Brooker caught on to the similarities as well on Twitter.
Shit. Turns out Black Mirror is a documentary series.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
Just been nosing through old Black Mirror files now, of course. pic.twitter.com/6Xhuhby0Gj
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
Perhaps the least prescient line from the script. pic.twitter.com/xrXZ3tsaW3
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
Promo poster for Black Mirror: The National Anthem (2011) pic.twitter.com/BUjplHrSkd
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
But the series creator wanted to assure everyone that the show wasn’t based on any known information about Cameron.
Just to clear it up: nope, I’d never heard anything about Cameron and a pig when coming up with that story. So this weirds me out.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
Like the rest of us though, Brooker hopes this doesn’t mean the rest of his crazy fictional episodes will happen as well.
I hope White Bear doesn’t come true next.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
For more, head to The Daily Mail and The Guardian.
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