Well, the next internet rumor experiment about a celebrity's death has proven successful again. If you look at Google Trends, you'll find "Kanye West Died" at # 5. That's because some web hackers decided to see if they could get their own keyword phrase to rise to the top of the list. Don't worry West fans. It's a totally bogus rumor and only meant to cause a stir among his followers. Clearly it's worked.
The supposed death, which grew to such a high trend status through the help of thousands of tweets about it, took place some time Tuesday when, and this is a quote from what was circling, "a bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars early this morning [left] rapper Kanye West dead, a second injured, a third arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter and a fourth person was detained by police. A Los Angeles Police Department officer who witnessed the wreck and saw a red Ferrari and a white Porsche 'spinning out of control' on Jamboree Road between Bison Avenue and East Bluff Drive."
I tell you, the creators of these hoaxes certainly go the extra mile to make them believable. West's reps had this to say about the deathly rumor through her own tweet:
"This 'RIP Kanye West' topic is not funny and it's NOT TRUE! He has people like myself and his family that love him very much. ... It's in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic. It's totally disrespectful to make up a story like this we're all human ... and we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous. You wouldn't want someone to say that about you."
Ouch! I'm not sure the pranksters learned their lesson but I certainly hear ya. Either way, rest easy folks, Mr. West will be around for more days of rudely interrupting award shows and proclaiming that "Beyonce should've won!" again and again.
What do you think? Are you sick of these silly internet hoaxes?
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