Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection

The @dril Twitter account began posting in September 2008; in the years that followed, dril became well known for his idiosyncratic humor and accrued a cult following. In January 2017, dril opened a Patreon account for fans to make monthly payments in support of his tweets and future projects, including "video, illustration, and long-form writing."^[1] On the Patreon, dril described his plans for two book projects:

BOOK #1: Just absolutely, cover to cover, the worst bullshit imaginable [...] all loosely tied together with a narrative adjacent to the 'Mythos' surrounding my posts. [...] BOOK #2: a lot of people ask me for a 'Best of' release, like some kind of coffee table book of my top posts, and while I think a book containing nothing but short messages you can easily dig up online would be sort of Shitty, I decided to make it worthwhile by filling the thing up with new stuff as well.^[2]

dril self-published the compilation project as Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection in August 2018.^[3] It was released in paperback and ebook formats. It was initially made available to download for Amazon Kindle, but was subsequently withdrawn from that format.^[4] On his Patreon, dril explained that the Kindle version was withdrawn because it was "displaying incorrectly".^[5] Afterward, the book became available as a PDF.^[6][7]

The 420-page book compiles 1,500 of the account's best posts from its first ten years, as selected by the author.^[3] The compiled tweets are sorted into topic areas by chapter, which are presented alphabetically.^[8] Individual tweets do not include the date they were originally published.^[8] The book features 70 new illustrations by dril.^[3] According to dril's preface, he published the book to preserve his posts in the event of a societal collapse that takes Twitter's servers offline.^[8][9] dril predicts a "miserable, Offline Hell" of the future in which his posts have been "Permanently Decommissioned by FEMA due to some Jade Helm 15 bull shit", referring to conspiracy theories about FEMA camps and the Jade Helm 15 military training exercise.^[9] dril says the book is a means to preserve his content in the aftermath of a civilization collapse and digital dark age:

This book is, without a doubt, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, of posts, designed to withstand the fall of civilization and ensure that my invaluable Content permeates the hearts and minds of post-collapse generations, in order to prevent the whole of humanity from reverting to the way of the cave man.^[9]

The book is sorted into 72 sections, sorted alphabetically by topic or theme:^[8][10][11]