Coronavirus: How a fake Duval resident went viral with her #JacksonvilleLady videos
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Wendy Diaz was in her Florida home when she saw the news about Jacksonville beaches reopening all over the news.
She thought at the time — and still thinks — “it’s too soon.” So, like others in quarantine, Diaz decided to poke fun at the situation with a video.
“I think there are some things that y’all just do not understand,” she recited in what she called her “North Florida accent.”
“Miami is where y’all got the virus because down there in Miami, you got all them Mexicans and they’re drinking all that Corona beer. We do not drink Corona beer here in the city of Jacksonville — we drink Natural Light,” Diaz’s character said in the video.
The mother of two who works at a construction company shot the two minute long skit mocking the situation and posted it to Twitter. From there, it went viral with hundreds of thousands of views on Twitter alone and comedians like George Lopez sharing it. Diaz quickly took on the nickname and hashtag, #JacksonvilleLady.
But there’s one problem.
Diaz, 49, doesn’t live in Jacksonville. She’s never lived in Jacksonville.
Still, the Coral Springs resident’s video was being shared and duplicated across social media platforms as the Jacksonville Lady without any extra context.
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