Teen ‘promposed’ to himself with epic tweet

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Asking someone to prom isn’t the awkward sideways shuffle it used to be. Now, teens spend endless amounts of time, effort and money crafting elaborate "promposals" in order to secure a date for the biggest night of the school year.

And Raul Rodriguez is no different.

Not interested in waiting to see if he would receive an elaborate prom date request, the Garland, Texas teen took things into his own hands by simply asking himself.

“I got the idea from all these promposals I saw on Twitter and all the girls’ reactions and how hilarious they looked. Surprised, some crying,” Rodriguez told the Daily Dot. “I was like ‘hmm,’ at the moment I didn’t have a prom date, so how would it look like if i asked myself to prom?”

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With the help of a friend, he took photos and worked his Photoshop magic to create a cardboard cutout of himself to use as a prop. The two then came up with a caption and posted the images to Twitter.

“I wasn’t really expecting it, I kind of surprised myself, for a moment I thought I was going to go alone,” he jokes. “I just heard the door knock and I saw myself standing there in front of me with a prom poster and I basically wanted to cry.”

Since posting, the tweet has over 37,000 likes and 27,000 retweets.

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But there’s also been some backlash.

“I got a lot of hate for it, because people think I’m a middle-aged dude,” he says. “Someone posted it on iFunny and the top comment was like, 'dude you’re not going to prom unless you’re a pedophile or chaperone.'”

But Rodriguez isn’t letting that get him down. Oh, and he’s actually not going to prom alone. But he’s keeping the details about his actual date under wraps for now.

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