Carter Wilkerson, famously known as the Chicken Nugget Boy of Twitter, was chasing Ellen DeGeneres’ record for most retweets. The Nugget Boy approached the fast food restaurant Wendy’s, on Twitter and asked them for a year long chicken nugget supply, The company challenged Carter to gain 18 million retweets, which was held by Ellen’s famous Oscar star studded Selfie.

Ellen, alongside Bradley Cooper, put in efforts to compete with Carter. But the #NuggsforCarter took over twitter and helped him achieve his goal. The Oscar selfie was dethroned by #NuggsforCarter, proving that food beats everything!

Ellen DeGeneres and Bradley Cooper Appealing to tweeple to retweet Oscar Selfie alongside #NuggsforCarter on The Ellen Show.

Carter took to twitter to express his happiness and urged tweeple to show some more love. Though Carter did not achieve 18 million tweets, Wendy’s was generous and kept their promise.

Carter went ahead and tweeted Ellen about the same and asked if he could keep his gifts.


Ellen proved that no one can beat her wit and tweeted:

Well, he may or may not meet Bradley, but nothing beats a year long supply of free chicken nuggets according to us!