Former Rob McElhenney Employee Posts Cryptic Condemnation of Her Old Boss Ahead of the ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’/‘Abbott Elementary’ Crossover
According to Rob McElhenney’s alleged former social media manager, “White people steal all the time, and he isn’t a good person.” She must have just watched “A Very Sunny Christmas” and learned about that “South Philly tradition.”
The highly anticipated Abbott Elementary episode featuring the characters of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is right around the corner, and while most fans of both the show and Philadelphia itself are ecstatic to see McElhenney and his crew collab with the other most popular sitcom about Philly in the first part of a two-episode event, one of the Always Sunny star and creator’s former employees isn’t quite as thrilled.
Brittani Warrick is a digital strategist who previously worked for McElhenney as a social media manager on a few of his projects, including Always Sunny and Welcome to Wrexham, and, in an accusatory tweet posted yesterday, she made her feelings on McElhenney and the upcoming all-Philly crossover perfectly vague.
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Warrick riled up the online Always Sunny fandom (and McElhenney’s surprisingly sizable community of haters) with this series of non-specific slights:
Though Warrick still hasn’t provided additional context or any pertinent details about what exactly McElhenney did to earn the title of “Christopher Columbus,” the falling out between Warrick and her old boss must have been ugly, judging by the fact that, just nine months ago, Warrick was warmly celebrating McElhenney’s achievements on LinkedIn.
In a post unearthed by many Always Sunny fans following the above tweets, Warrick wrote of McElhenney's selection as ADWEEK's 2024 Media Visionary, “Congrats to the best boss ever (Rob McElhenney) I’m having so much fun learning from and working with you + the entire team!”
While the apparently massive community of Twitter users who have been praying for McElhenney’s downfall continue to celebrate Warrick’s tweets as the first step toward the Always Sunny creator’s cancellation, defenders of the show and its don have been formulating theories about what actually went down between Warrick and her boss like they’re searching for Pepe Silvia.
The prevailing narrative revolves around the McElhenney tweet that led him and Quinta Brunson starting crossover talks, back when the disastrous Glaswegian Willy Wonka meth-lab experience was the hottest trending topic on Twitter.
“A lot of you are saying this feels like an episode of Sunny, but to me it feels more like an @alwayssunny @AbbottElemABC crossover episode,” McElhenney supposedly wrote on Twitter back in February, which prompted a positive response from the Abbott Elementary creator on Instagram. From there, the two linked up and began talking crossover, and McElhenney and his team credited Brunson for coming up with the winning idea for the two-part collaboration.
Some Always Sunny fans believe that the tweet that led to the talks that led to the Always Sunny/Abbott Elementary crossover must have come from Warrick while she was still managing McElhenney’s socials, and that the falling out came from Warrick asking McElhenney for some sort of “story by” credit on the crossover episodes, which he refused.
Of course, all of that is pure conjecture, as Warrick still hasn’t explained exactly why she thinks McElhenney is a thief — though it would be odd for her to be angling for credit so long before the crossover episodes even air. The Gang only goes through the normal arbitration process at the end of the plan.
