Bill Werde, ex Editorial Director of Billboard Magazine, gave us all a lesson in online celebrity last night, when he took to his Tumblr account to clarify a few things regarding certain shady bloggers who have somehow managed to spread their lies on the Internet.
These bloggers have been writing bashful entries about music artists, particularly Lady Gaga, for one year, and no one paid any attention to them or their glorified fan site until more credible media outlets started reporting their stories, even if they had absolutely no way to know if these were legit or not. Embarrassingly, the New York Magazine had to edit one of their articles with a line that told their readers to not believe that story because they had zero proof that what it said was true, and that it was just "fictional gossip".
These people's only goal in life is, apparently, to try and ruin Lady Gaga's career. Now why would anyone be so obsessed with someone they don't know? How could a popstar hold such power over people? I suppose, if you're Lady Gaga, nothing should surprise you anymore. Her undeniable impact and quick rise to global superstardom has, for some reason, scared fans of other popstars.
These stories have been supported by the likes of Internet bully Perez Hilton and hate Tumblr pages such as Paws Down Little Monsters (which was created by, you guessed it, a Madonna fan).
I won't mention the blog these people write for nor their names, because that is exactly what they want. And well, apparently these people don't even exist.
In their bios they mention Universities that have never heard of them and use pictures from random people's Flickr accounts.
Buzzfeed has written a similar article about Lady Gaga hating bloggers who won't reveal themselves. It's all very sad stuff, and it makes you wonder why people don't focus on getting on with their own lives instead of polluting the World with such mindless rubbish.
Read the Buzzfeed article here.
To read Bill Werde's Tumblr entry, go here.
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