Aussies seem to love two things recently: Winning gold medals and little teen asian sex videosmistaken identities on Twitter.
It's happened again, as 18-year-old wunderkind Kyle Chalmers took out a shocking win at the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, beating out American Nathan Adrian and compatriot Cameron McEvoy to claim gold in the final on Wednesday night.
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A whole heap of people have given a congratulatory slap on the back to @kyle_chalmers on the social media platform, who is clearly bemused at the surprise, because well, it's not the right guy.
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Let's face it though, Chalmers is lapping up the instant notoriety, particularly when strangers on the internet start to admire your "humility" and are proud of you for some reason.
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The wrong Kyle Chalmers people have been tweeting at is actually a 19-year-old trainee radio communication technician from Glasgow in Scotland, who is having fun at the mistake.
"I will lap it all up while it goes on, I'm always up for a laugh ... so waking up to 2,000 notifications was a bit of a surprise but reading the tweets I shared a chuckle, so yeah it's all good here," Chalmers told Mashable Australiavia Twitter.
In case you're wondering, the real swimming Kyle Chalmers doesn't appear to have a Twitter account. You could leave a message on his Instagram account, however.
UPDATE: Aug. 11, 2016, 4:04 p.m. AEST Updated with quotes from Kyle Chalmers from Glasgow, Scotland.