Johnny Depp So Undead It’s Craaa-zzzy

I’ve woken up only slightly, intending to crawl back to the mounds of blankets that I call my bed – yet have been derailed by my mandatory Twitter check. And what do I find as the surprisingly second most popular Twitter trending topic? “RIP Johnny Depp“. Which is, completely false. Which is to say, he is not dead at all and if you took his pulse it would be all pulsey and beating.
Another Internet Hoax. And should we be surprised?
Someone created a fake CNN.com page on Angelfire.com (which is highly illegal, I’m preeeetty sure) in which they have written a story on Depp’s car accident. Taking your dislike for any person (celebrity or not) to such great lengths is really cruel to the public and to the person and their family and friends.
Who should be held accountable? Maybe a tech-savvy fraternity has taking hazing projects to an entirely new level. And if there is a fraternity of sweet, goofy, smart boys out there like Zachary Levi, Tom Cavanaugh and Zach Braff - please, reveal yourselves to us. We will be gentle.
If Depp was more of an up-and-comer I bet his agent would be all ‘let’s work this into a ‘died and rose again’ vampire angle and get you in one of those movies!’ Which would be creepy. So I should stop giving out ideas…
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January 24th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I’ve tried to spread the word on twitter that this is a hoax but the updates are coming so fast. Some people are really upset on twitter and think Johnny Depp is dead.
January 24th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Zach Braff had the same thing done to him over the summer with a very convincing, but very fake, CNN news article on a non-CNN site citing his death. The guy detailed how it happened on that one at least:
http://www.chrisbox.com/c/dump/p/braff.html
January 25th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I hope the people on Twitter have realized the truth by now. Sigh.
And that’s right, they totally did ‘kill’ Zach Braff. It’s so mean, I would be very offended if someone faked my death online!
June 17th, 2010 at 4:38 am
I was just thinking how much i love technology and the internet….it gives us access to so much goodinformation…just like this post..thanks will be back again A+