Did you know that Fred Savage is dead? He's not but the internet says he is so it has to be true - right?
Sunday night during the Emmy Show they ran the section memorializing the actors who died last year. A picture of Corey Haim popped up WITH HIS NAME ON IT. It was a picture of him as a young boy and someone thought it was Fred Savage (I think he was in something called Boy Meets World). They Tweeted about Fred being dead and suddenly it went viral. By Monday hundreds of thousands were mourning Fred.
A fact I want to repeat - Corey's name was on the picture. I happened to flip the TV on and caught that section of the show. I later saw the clip re-run on the Tues early ABC news show. The correct name was there. So, could the yo-yo that started the rumor not read or did they just see dollar signs with all the hits their site would get?
Sunday night during the Emmy Show they ran the section memorializing the actors who died last year. A picture of Corey Haim popped up WITH HIS NAME ON IT. It was a picture of him as a young boy and someone thought it was Fred Savage (I think he was in something called Boy Meets World). They Tweeted about Fred being dead and suddenly it went viral. By Monday hundreds of thousands were mourning Fred.
A fact I want to repeat - Corey's name was on the picture. I happened to flip the TV on and caught that section of the show. I later saw the clip re-run on the Tues early ABC news show. The correct name was there. So, could the yo-yo that started the rumor not read or did they just see dollar signs with all the hits their site would get?
So there you have another moment on the internet where, even when presented with the facts, one person starts a lie, others pic it up as truth and suddenly the world is sure it is fact.
I have investigated so many things sent to me over the past 11 years on the net and 99.9% turn out to be manipulated lies or bold faced lies. If it comes to you swearing it is true, DON"T BELIEVE IT!! Anyone can buy a computer or use one free at the library. Anyone can type anything they want into that computer.
Over the past few years I have threatened to start a rumor. I think I should say that Elvis had a sex change operation and was pregnant when he died. That is why he had gained so much weight. Maybe the change wasn't finished and he had a tubular pregnancy and the drug OD was just a red herring. Or maybe he died during a C section and the child's identity has been hidden all these years.
Half the people would dismiss me as a crackpot and rightly so. However a large number of people would insist on carrying on long and rambling arguments and demanding to know my references. Of course, I would insist that my resources had all died and could not be confirmed but I KNOW it for a fact. I mean I was there, how dare they question the integrity of my honor.
I could blog about it, write a book and maybe even make some money off of screen rights. I might even get a reality show hunting for Elvis impersonators across the USA. I could make some serious bucks.
At the end of it all I would be written off as colorful old biddy with pixie dust on the brain but there would always be a group that still insisted there was a possibility it was true and the late night comedians would drag it out for a few tired jokes once a year. I could live out my years making a few thousand here and there attending conventions and signing autographs LOL.
It is how the system works because we let it. We don't shame people for lying. Our society applauds underhanded business men, sleazy men and women that trade sex for fame, alcoholics, druggies and more - as long as they are on top. Americans shamelessly honor and reward winners regardless of how they got there.
I have investigated so many things sent to me over the past 11 years on the net and 99.9% turn out to be manipulated lies or bold faced lies. If it comes to you swearing it is true, DON"T BELIEVE IT!! Anyone can buy a computer or use one free at the library. Anyone can type anything they want into that computer.
Over the past few years I have threatened to start a rumor. I think I should say that Elvis had a sex change operation and was pregnant when he died. That is why he had gained so much weight. Maybe the change wasn't finished and he had a tubular pregnancy and the drug OD was just a red herring. Or maybe he died during a C section and the child's identity has been hidden all these years.
Half the people would dismiss me as a crackpot and rightly so. However a large number of people would insist on carrying on long and rambling arguments and demanding to know my references. Of course, I would insist that my resources had all died and could not be confirmed but I KNOW it for a fact. I mean I was there, how dare they question the integrity of my honor.
I could blog about it, write a book and maybe even make some money off of screen rights. I might even get a reality show hunting for Elvis impersonators across the USA. I could make some serious bucks.
At the end of it all I would be written off as colorful old biddy with pixie dust on the brain but there would always be a group that still insisted there was a possibility it was true and the late night comedians would drag it out for a few tired jokes once a year. I could live out my years making a few thousand here and there attending conventions and signing autographs LOL.
It is how the system works because we let it. We don't shame people for lying. Our society applauds underhanded business men, sleazy men and women that trade sex for fame, alcoholics, druggies and more - as long as they are on top. Americans shamelessly honor and reward winners regardless of how they got there.
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