Another day, another bogus celebrity death via Twitter. This time, it was Eddie Murphy, who supposedly died in a snowboarding accident, of all things. Hey, it was only a couple of months ago that Robin Williams died on a mountain in Austria! The bogus story -- yes, folks, Eddie is alive, he's alive! -- originated on a website called Global Associated News. Which is NOT where I'd go if I want to know the global news, because the site appears to be devoid of anything resembling actual news. In fact, the site has already fake killed off other celebs like Charlie Sheen, Jon Bon Jovi, and Tiger Woods.
It's amazing how detailed these fake deaths get. Says the site about Eddie:
The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Eddie Murphy lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed.
Eddie's rep has assured everyone that not only is Eddie alive and kicking, but that he does not snowboard. She assures us that if we ever hear he's died in a future snowboarding accident, we should know it's not true. Good to know.
While these stories are obviously ridiculous and desperate ploys for clicks, one interesting thing does come out of them. A celeb can actually see what people on Twitter would say about him in the event of his death. Kind of like getting to attend your own funeral.
As of this moment, the Global Associated Lies News story is still being spread via Twitter and people are still freaking out, i.e. "Eddie Murphy is dead for real you fool???!!!" I mean, if you're Eddie Murphy, and you're reading Twitter, you'd be kind of flattered, right? It's just too bad Eddie's career is on life support.
While Twitter death hoaxes are one of the most annoying things about the Internet, they were not invented with social media. After all, it 1897 when Mark Twain said, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Eddie Murphy is not dead and wasn’t snowboarding today. Eddie Murphy is the victim of a familiar fake death story prompting fan confusion today. The fabricated tale, the work of Global Associated / Mediafetcher, puts the actor on a fabricated ski slope, falling during a vacation that didn’t happen, and perishing.
But for savvy fans, the fabricated tale is a familiar one. Eddie Murphy’s form of humor is different than Adam Sandler. But his death story on Global is no different than that used against Sandler. Global has used the same Eddie Murphy death story against other comedic actors before as well.
But for reasons never clear, Global doesn’t have rappers “die” on snowboards but in car crashes. If you are hip hop musician, the story switches to a yacht. And if you are a movie actor, the tale heads to the slopes, namely the Zermatt ski slopes.
For months, fan confusion has surfaced because of a series of similar Global fabricated tales. Global uses a series of preconceived storylines, with a host of purported government agencies, airports, and even locations that don’t even exist.
This is not the first Eddie Murphy fake tale to surface online. The same story resurfaced its second time in October of last year. As LALATE noted at the time, “It remains unclear what Zermatt officials think of all these fake celebrity deaths being claimed to have occurred on their ski slopes.”
Charlie Sheen, Daddy Yankee, and Sandler himself have also been victims of the same fake story, just in the last few weeks alone. In the end, if it’s Route 80, or Zermatt, G.A. most often makes news. Today’s fake report is simply a cut and paste job. “The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Charlie Sheen lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed”, read the fake Sheen report. Today’s Murphy report just replaces Sheen with Murphy.
Eddie Murphy isn’t dead, nor is Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Ryan Seacrest, or Adam Sandler.
It's amazing how detailed these fake deaths get. Says the site about Eddie:
The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Eddie Murphy lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed.
Eddie's rep has assured everyone that not only is Eddie alive and kicking, but that he does not snowboard. She assures us that if we ever hear he's died in a future snowboarding accident, we should know it's not true. Good to know.
While these stories are obviously ridiculous and desperate ploys for clicks, one interesting thing does come out of them. A celeb can actually see what people on Twitter would say about him in the event of his death. Kind of like getting to attend your own funeral.
As of this moment, the Global Associated Lies News story is still being spread via Twitter and people are still freaking out, i.e. "Eddie Murphy is dead for real you fool???!!!" I mean, if you're Eddie Murphy, and you're reading Twitter, you'd be kind of flattered, right? It's just too bad Eddie's career is on life support.
While Twitter death hoaxes are one of the most annoying things about the Internet, they were not invented with social media. After all, it 1897 when Mark Twain said, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Eddie Murphy is not dead and wasn’t snowboarding today. Eddie Murphy is the victim of a familiar fake death story prompting fan confusion today. The fabricated tale, the work of Global Associated / Mediafetcher, puts the actor on a fabricated ski slope, falling during a vacation that didn’t happen, and perishing.
But for savvy fans, the fabricated tale is a familiar one. Eddie Murphy’s form of humor is different than Adam Sandler. But his death story on Global is no different than that used against Sandler. Global has used the same Eddie Murphy death story against other comedic actors before as well.
But for reasons never clear, Global doesn’t have rappers “die” on snowboards but in car crashes. If you are hip hop musician, the story switches to a yacht. And if you are a movie actor, the tale heads to the slopes, namely the Zermatt ski slopes.
For months, fan confusion has surfaced because of a series of similar Global fabricated tales. Global uses a series of preconceived storylines, with a host of purported government agencies, airports, and even locations that don’t even exist.
This is not the first Eddie Murphy fake tale to surface online. The same story resurfaced its second time in October of last year. As LALATE noted at the time, “It remains unclear what Zermatt officials think of all these fake celebrity deaths being claimed to have occurred on their ski slopes.”
Charlie Sheen, Daddy Yankee, and Sandler himself have also been victims of the same fake story, just in the last few weeks alone. In the end, if it’s Route 80, or Zermatt, G.A. most often makes news. Today’s fake report is simply a cut and paste job. “The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Charlie Sheen lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed”, read the fake Sheen report. Today’s Murphy report just replaces Sheen with Murphy.
Eddie Murphy isn’t dead, nor is Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Ryan Seacrest, or Adam Sandler.
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