# ConcernedMom420
ConcernedMom420 was a Twitter troll account that posed as a bumbling, devout Utah mother on an anti-marijuana crusade. Registered in December 2012, the account collected thousands of retweets with absurd claims about weed killing teenagers and Christ saving the owner from 'the devil's lettuce.' By January 2013, The Daily Dot had traced the profile photo to an unrelated woman, pointing toward what most readers already suspected: a hoax.
## Origin
Twitter user @ConcernedMom420 registered the handle on December 4, 2012, but stayed silent until December 10, when its first tweet attached an image of a mother crying over a boy's body with text claiming the child had died from smoking marijuana[2]. That same image had already circulated on Reddit since October 2012, originally posted to r/funny with a mock caption about parental disapproval[5]. The tweet collected close to 800 retweets and roughly 300 favorites by April 2013[6].
Within days, the account expanded off Twitter. A Facebook page called 'STOP WEED SMOKING' appeared on December 13, 2012, using the same stolen profile photo[6]. The YouTube channel followed on December 14, and three days later the uploader published 'The Dangerous Truths of Marijuana,' a slideshow of poorly edited celebrity images set to Christian music, with narration crediting Christ for saving her from 'the devil's lettuce'[3].
- **Platform:** Twitter / YouTube (video spread)
- **Creator:** Unknown
- **Date:** 2012
## Overview
At its peak in December 2012, @ConcernedMom420 wrote in the voice of a self-described 45-year-old Christian mother from Utah who thought marijuana was turning neighborhood teenagers into criminals and demons[1]. Tweets paired factual errors, religious panic and a self-appointed mission to get 'the devil's lettuce' banned with stock photos of weeping parents or crudely edited celebrity images[2]. Alongside the Twitter handle, the operator also ran a YouTube channel and Facebook fan page under the same persona[3].
The writing sat just inside the range of real anti-drug parent rhetoric, so readers could not tell at a glance whether a given tweet was sincere or satirical[8]. That ambiguity drove daily arguments over whether the author was a genuine evangelical or a stoner in costume, and it carried the account into mainstream coverage by early 2013[1].
## How to Use
ConcernedMom420 is a single account rather than a template, so engagement typically means sharing screenshots of individual tweets with friends, quote-tweeting the handle, or linking to the 'Dangerous Truths of Marijuana' YouTube video as a reaction piece[3]. A common convention is to point to a specific absurd tweet and ask whether it is parody or sincere, keeping the hoax question alive[8].
## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is ConcernedMom420?
ConcernedMom420 was a Twitter troll account from December 2012 that posed as a Christian Utah mom waging an uninformed war against marijuana, mixing religious talk with factual errors about drug use[1].
### Where did ConcernedMom420 come from?
The handle was registered on December 4, 2012, and posted its first tweet six days later using a photo that had already circulated on Reddit since October 2012[5].
### What does ConcernedMom420 mean?
The name pairs a 'concerned mother' persona with 420, slang for marijuana, which set up the running joke of a weed-fixated parent complaining in weed vocabulary[1].
### How do you use ConcernedMom420?
It is one account rather than a reusable format, so people typically share screenshots of individual tweets or point friends to the YouTube video 'The Dangerous Truths of Marijuana' as reaction fodder[3].
### Is ConcernedMom420 still popular?
Activity peaked between December 12 and 15, 2012, and the account faded from the conversation after The Daily Dot's January 2013 report traced the profile photo to an unrelated woman[1].
## References
1. [http://www.dailydot.com/society/concernedmom420-dangerous-truths-marijuana-hoax/]()
2. [https://x.com/i/status/278164563793432576]()
3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0uvk-1BBe4]()
4. [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177879/-Today-s-insight-into-the-conservative-mind]()
5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/122787/what_will_your_mother_say/]()
6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/concernedmom420]()
7. [http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/37943035113/anti-weed-mom-tweets-about-the-devils-lettuce]()
8. [https://x.com/i/status/324901588323930112]()
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