Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Kanye West Died!! NOT!

WOW! Kanye West is dead? Really? No..... It's a HUGE HOAX by members of the "4chan" website, and they made this grow like wildfire! This is probably one of the biggest hoaxes yet in the in the history of the internet when it relates to celebrity news.



Apparently the "4chans" website had this group get together to see if they could create this rumor using only a few hundred people. Well, they obviously succeed, and you can see the results of hundreds of thousands of people thinking Kanye West died. Wow.

The power of the internet is seriously amazing, and scary too. The fact that this group of people, about 200 or so, could create such a huge rumor is startling. Think about that. A few HUNDRED people created a rumor that now has the attention of over 100,000 internet users.

What do you think about this? Has it changed the way you perceive any information you find on the internet?

So yeah, Kanye West is NOT DEAD. Just an internet based 'practical joke'.

-Trevor
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  1. Felix af EkenstamOctober 21, 2009 at 3:32 AM

    It is also interesting to see how fast the internet autocorrects things like this. In just a few hours it is quite clear that it is just a hoax.
    (or maby the hoax is the hoax and he is really dead?)

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  2. Randall WhiteisOctober 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    You may want to correct this post, because 4chan is a public forum, and there are well more than 200 users.

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