Christmas came early for millions of lonely, depressed teenagers around the world on Friday.
Why? Because a topless picture of Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams was published on previously pointless social networking site Twitter.
Hayley Williams became the poster girl of choice for many whiny teenage boys and allegedly straight girls after the release of her band?s second album, Riot! in 2007. Since them Williams has received several vaguely bizarre awards for being the sexiest female in rock music, but had previously managed to avoid getting ?em out for the lads mags.
All that changed on Friday, when a self-taken picture of a topless Hayley Williams was published on Twitpic. Twitpic is an add-on site to Twitter that allows people to upload photos they think people might be interesting. However this seems to be the first time a photo of any interest to anyone has been published on the site. The picture was tied to Williams? official Twitter account (@yelyahwilliams) and the EXIF data – i.e. the data stored within the picture – showed that it came from her new Blackberry (inadvertently providing one of the best viral adverts Research in Motion will ever have).
Minutes after the picture appeared it was taken down – unfortunately for Williams not before before millions of copies found their way onto image hosting sites and web forums, being fawned over in a creepy/borderline stalker-like way. Williams then tweeted out a message saying she'd been ‘hacked’.
Nobody is buying the hacked story though. As a regular user of Twitpic the belief is that Williams accidentally tweeted the picture herself; either because no one had looked at her for five minutes and she was becoming insecure, or because she's denser than the majority of her fans.
Let this be a lesson to all youngsters out there – be careful what you put on the internet. You never know how many spotty losers with ridiculous fringes will be furiously masturbating over it for years to (for want of a better word) come.
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Harrison says
stop being an ass and get a life. No one cares about your opinion anyway.
Impulse Magazine says
I think that it is a shame that someone would put this up on a social networking site
Rockgeek says
Ha! Spot on!!!
Randy says
Boobs, what the internet was made for.
Kyle says
i already lost my respect for her. pity.