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As by now you probably know, Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who can be the first to get to 1,000,000 Twitter followers. Larry King is mad into it. His diaper budget has doubled in the past week, he’s so excited. (Sorry, Larry King. That was a really mean joke at your expense. I am sure that your diaper budget is the same as it was last week.) Obviously, this is ridiculous. You can’t really blame Ashton, he’s just doing what he does: being the biggest dumb dumb around. But really, CNN? You are treating this challenge as an actual thing that deserves the attention and enthusiasm of a news organization? Even James Earle Jones is like “maybe being aligned with these guys was a mistake.”
But if a serious, “trusted” news organization falls all over themselves to play Kutcher’s reindeer games (perfect reference, look it up) then the only people left to stop it are us.
4Chan kind of has the right idea (shudder). They’ve figured out a system for quickly creating fake Twitter accounts, which is why an epidemiologist in Australia now has more than 130,00 followers. But to actually stand toe-to-toe with the man who invented trucker hats and say “Not today, Kelso, not on our Internet,” we need to find someone worthy of communal Twinterest.
So, guys, who would we push to 1,000,000 followers? @iamdiddy? @sashagrey? @timheidecker?
Obviously, I recognize that the Videogum audience is not large enough to change the world on its own, but powerful grass-roots movements have started with less. Did you know that the famous Jaguar it Forward movement that we’re all participating in was actually started by a fictional 11-year-old robot in a custom-fitted sleeveless t-shirt? Let’s go, ya’ll!!
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i suggest fatjew. http://www.twitter.com/thefatjew
or http://www.twitter.com/fireland
CNN has been a joke for YEARS with their crack staff of ex catalog models aka news”readers” Worse is “Headline News” where Nancy Grace is on 24/7 watch for a new dead baby/wife/girlfriend to fixate on for 5years…
Yes he’s obnoxious, but he’s also giving $100,000 to Malaria No More Fund if he “wins.”
considering that 100K is basically pocket change for that guy, i’m not impressed.
You are right. Let’s trivialize all donations to all charities made by all people who give less than say… 10% of their income away.
Now, these 10%’rs are going to have to prove it. I’m talking w-2′s and scanned receipts. If it isn’t a substantial percentage, it shouldn’t count!
No longer will we accept just any donation, only those of ‘substantial’ proportions.
On the other hand, you could shut up and realize that lots of people probably had never heard of this charity and gave just because he did. That’s what fans do, they copy off of the people they admire.
I am not a fan of Ashton, but anyone who brings light to a charity focused on helping so many is a pretty cool dude in my book.
Why doesn’t he do it anyway? Like right now.
That’s always my thought when I hear Celebrity X promising to donate relatively small sums to charity. How about you just do it and leave your Twitter out of it? (Actually, Ashton Kutcher should leave his Twitter out of everything.)
@timheidecker. Don’t play games.
@therealshaq
seriously, i got a twitter account SPECIFICALLY for that guy. WE CONNECT.
@TommyWiseau, but I’m fairly certain it’s fake.
I’ll second @therealshaq.
My sister has a twitter account. Un-subscribing from AplusDouche as we speak.
@dinalohan
@dinalohan
@dinalohan
Oh, Gabe. You didn’t shudder enough.
Basement Dad is Australian pedophile Josef Fritzl, who raised his daughter in his basement as a sex slave and impregnated her for the purpose of having sex with their daughter.
Now you can shudder.
austrian you fuck head
same thing.
Please tell me i am not the only one watching (or have watched if you are reading this in the future) ashton kutcher literally VIDEOCHATTING with everyone on twitter as the race narrows down. i cant believe how important they think this is.
ANY PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY TARDS AT VIDEOGUM…. ARTICLES LIKE THESE PROB HELPED KUTCHER GET TO 1M FIRST!
I suppose the only real question to be asked here is ‘who really cares?’.
But honestly, who cares?
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