Pharma bro and most hated man in the world Martin Shkreli crashed a University of California, Berkeley student group on Facebook, posting his telephone number and pledging to have “a Wu-Tang party” at the university.
On Monday, Shkreli posted in a popular UC Berkeley student group called “UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens” and let the students join his live stream, the Daily Californian reports.
Many students at the lefty college actually requested the former pharmaceutical executive come speak at the university. “I will come to Berkeley,” he said during the stream with students. “Absolutely, as long as nobody tries to kill me, I’ll come.”
He also said he would have “a Wu-Tang Party” at the college “I’d love to come to Berkeley,” Shkreli said. “You sent me such a meme welcome. It’d be an honor.”
Skhreli was referring to his copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2015 album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which he bought for $2 million. He leaked excerpts of it during a live stream to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections.
After he temporarily left the Facebook meme group this week, students changed the group’s title to “RIP IN PIECE MARTIN SHKRELI (1983-2017). After he rejoined it, creators of the group renamed it again, this time to “UC Shkreli Memes for Edgy Teens.”
Shkreli then posted his personal phone number and took phone calls from the Berkeley students and answered numerous questions, including about his exclusive Wu-Tang Clan album.
One of the group moderators, Kojin Glick, says she called him about 200 times. She told the student paper that he spoke politely during the conversation with her, but said other phone calls with other women were derogatory.
“This whole interaction with him is quite ironic because the majority of people dislike him, but it was an interesting interaction,” she said. “I saw he would just post something and it would get 2,000 likes in a short amount of time. It definitely shows that these memes can have an impact.”
Skhreli has lately been involved in multiple controversies since resigning as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and being indicted on federal charges of securities fraud. His event at Harvard University last week about health care was canceled amid threats from the protesters. Some activists reportedly pulled a fire alarm to stop him from speaking.
Last month, he was also banned from Twitter for harassing Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca. He had offered to take her as his date to Trump’s Inauguration, and Photoshopped his face onto that of Duca’s husband.