Cardi B and Penn Badgley are the unexpected friends we never knew we needed! Cardi took to Twitter Sunday after discovering that the You star had referenced her during a press event for the Netflix TV series.
“OOOOMMFFFGGGGGG HE KNOWS ME !!!????????OMMMGGGG!!!!!! Yoooo like I’m famous famous,” the “WAP” rapper wrote, quote-tweeting a fan video from Netflix’s In Conversation with YOU event.
After criticizing his own very measured approach to social media, the Gossip Girl alum praised Cardi’s presence across her platforms, saying that she has “an authentic relationship” online.
“To me, it’s this incredibly nuanced place to be, and despite what many might judge as antics, I feel she has an incredibly authentic relationship to that, and I think that’s why people like her so much,” he said in the video.
On Monday, Badgley quote-retweeted Cardi’s response, where he seemed shocked by the rapper’s reaction, simply writing, “I-“
Shortly after, he changed his Twitter avatar to a blue-haired Cardi, cementing his status as a fan, to which Cardi responded by tagging Badgley in a video on Twitter of a little boy who gets close to the camera and asks, “Is that you? Is that me?” He adds, “No that’s not!”
