A Thread About How Much I Love Asriel is a Twitter / X thread by web developer Nasso dedicated to detailing his obsessive fixation on the fictional character Asriel Dreemurr, with tongue planted mostly in cheek. The thread began on April 2, 2019, concluded on the same day in 2021, and can be read here
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A Thread About How Much I Love Asriel contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Geology: Nasso attributes global warming to Asriel.
- Author Appeal: The thread exists to publicly announce Nasso's love for Asriel.
- Birthday Episode: Nasso made two tweets to mark his birthdays.
- Blatant Lies: Nasso asserts that the World Health Organization has "officially classified [his] love for Asriel as genuine and extremely important."
- Book Ends: The thread began and ended on April 2.
- Crying at Your Birthday Party: Nasso apparently cried when Asriel didn't appear for the former's 18th birthday.
- Devoted to You: If the thread is anything to go by, Asriel is this to Nasso.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Nasso admires Asriel's claws.
- Even the Guys Want Him: According to Nasso, Asriel is "the reason everyone has a gay side."
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The thread is about how much Nasso loves Asriel.
- Global Warming: Nasso calls Asriel "the real reason" behind this.
- Once per Episode: Every tweet in the thread is about Nasso's fixation on Asriel.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Given that Asriel is a fictional character, Nasso's love for him is this.
- Phony Degree: Nasso claims to have a PhD in "loving Asriel." No known educational institution recognizes "loving Asriel" as a field of study.
- Played for Laughs: While Nasso's attraction to Asriel seems to be genuine, the thread is exaggerated for this purpose.
- Push Polling: Nasso posted a poll where he asked Twitter users to decide how he would spend the next 24 hours. All four options were "love Asriel."
- Shout-Out: Nasso says he is better at loving Asriel than Walter White is at cooking meth.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Nasso labels himself "Asriel-sexual."
- World War III: Nasso declares himself to be on Asriel's side for this hypothetical conflict.
