Martial arts legend and screen icon Jackie Chan survived his own death yesterday, proving once again that he is definitely much harder than Ross Kemp.
But that really isn't saying much.
Jackie Chan became a top trending topic on Twitter worldwide after rumours of his death began to circulate on the micro messaging site. Now, far be it from us to criticise the users of Twitter, but how stupid do you have to be to rely on it as your primary source of news about celebrity deaths?
Surely that's what hecklerspray is for?
The dribbling morons who specialise in retweeting anything and everything they see, in some vain hope that people will care about what content they're pissing into the vast ocean of pointless information, began spreading the news around almost immediately after the initial Jackie Chan RIP tweet was? erm? tweeted.
God forbid people would actually check to see whether a story was true before they spread it around, even we here in the hecklerspray bedsit took the time to consult our good friend Google for confirmation of Chan?s death, only to be disappointed by the news he was still alive and had also recently starred in some sort of bizarre remake of Vin Diesel?s opus, The Pacifier.
we're putting this down to the fact that people want to be the first to break the news to you that someone famous has died. A few years ago this was done with text messages, we all remember receiving text messages informing us that Michael Jackson or Heath Ledger had died.
But no one cares about texting any more because we have Twitter, which is like texting only on a larger scale and infinitely more annoying. But because Twitter is instant you have to be quick, so those few seconds you spent Googling the facts could be the difference between being retweeted or having to retweet.
It was either that or an extremely bizarre viral campaign by Channel 5 in the UK, who were showing one of Chan?s more commercially successful films, Rush Hour, on their digital sister station 5* last night.
The best moment of this story came from the London trending topics on Twitter though, where Jackie Chan?s name appeared right next to the hashtag, #thingsblackfolksscaredof.
Come to think of it, Chris Tucker did look a little uneasy during Rush Hour?
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HitEmUp says
Kris Silver, what you just said is the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. At no point in your incoherent rambling response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. We are all now dumber for reading this. I award you no credit as a writer and may God or any other higher power have mercy on your soul
Bret says
The write of this article is awful… Fack you MatherFacker.
arzkazoo says
Personally, I think the article made far more sense than the rambling, inane bullshit the previous two posters submitted. Perhaps they’re too mentally challenged to realise they are reading a comedy website?