It turns out if balls could talk, they would have some ignorant things to say. On New Year's Eve, the Times Square Ball retweeted — from its verified Twitter account — a Men's Health recipe for making your own edible Times Square Ball. They added "Cannibals!" which might have been funny, had they not followed it up with the hashtag #BallLivesMatter. They went on to tweet the hashtag out again, without any context.

People Are Pissed About These Tweets From the Times Square Ball (Yes, You Read That Right)

People Are Pissed About These Tweets From the Times Square Ball (Yes, You Read That Right)

The tweets were quickly deleted, but not before outlets like the Daily Caller could screenshot them, and not before Twitter users could respond.

I really wanna know who thought this was a good idea. RT @timessquareball: #BallLivesMatter

Did you really just tweet "#BallLivesMatter" @timessquareball ???? Whoever is behind this page needs to deactivate... like now.

Others thought people were overreacting to what was meant to be a joke, or chalked it up to "political correctness" gone too far.

How do you sum up 2015? By people getting upset at the hashtag #BallLivesMatter. Just dying to be upset at something huh? PC is the worst.

Still, the hashtag served as an important reminder that people are still trivializing the movement to protect black lives in the U.S.