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This Friday is Worldwide Unfollow Charlie Sheen on Twitter Day
By James Brady RyanMarch 7th, 2011, 5:11 pmComments (4)
Could the exodus of Charlie Sheen's Twitter followers finally stop the madness? (The madness being our shared obsession with the man, not his own madness. I'm sure even if he lost all his followers and wasn't asked back for more interviews, he'd just scratch his rants in the dirt somewhere, while yelling at birds.) That's what the Village Voice is hoping for with Worldwide Unfollow Charlie Sheen on Twitter Day, which they've declared to be this Friday, March 11.
I didn't realize the man had two million followers, and chances are most will stick around for more of his, erm, aphorisms, but they present some compelling reasons to do abandon the feed:
- Repeated violence to women (he shot one, he threatened to behead another, and then there are the porn stars. Oh, the porn stars.)
- Spelling "corner" with a "k."
- Insulting Thomas Jefferson. Repeatedly.
- Certain men are now using him as a role model. This is not good.
Look, it is one thing if people want to hold the Situation and Snooki on a pedestal — the tanning and the drinking and the on-and-off jerkiness make them probably not the best choice, but whatever. But please, if anyone out there reading this is looking up to Charlie Sheen, OHMIGOD STOP. Will this movement help prevent such atrocities? One can only hope.
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Commentarium (4 Comments)
I don't think that anyone is looking up to him except in the manner one might look up from the road while driving past a fender bender: i.e. in morbid curiosity of what terrible mess might be going on.
It's a shame that his ridiculous and, often, abhorrent behaviour has given him such a broad audience but, thankfully, I think 1,999,990 of those 2m followers know not to take him seriously.
The other 10 also follow @foxnews.
Am I the only one that tunes in for his awesome vocabulary? I have a whole new slang now, fresh for the streets. Boom, WINNING!! Duh.
Just gonna say it, I wasn't following him on twitter, But now that I know he shot some one, and threatened to behead anouther women, well the masogonistic side of me is just gonna have learn more. Thank you Village Voice, for giving me a reason to live, even if your trying to make Charlie Sheen out to be a bad guy.
I, for one, do look up to master Charlie and his life of royal refuge with the blesses Goddesses, and I have begun a personal voyage toward the cultivation of my own Adonis DNA, and finding my own inner Rock Star From Mars. I have been consuming 100% pure Tiger Blood a quart at a time in order to infuse my circulatory system with it's drug resistant powers. I'm vomiting a lot of tiger blood, and possibly some of my own as well according to my doctor, as he "claims" that it could be doing damage to my kidneys. Whatever, doc! Ever heard of a winner?? Looking at one! Duh! Oh, master Charlie would be so proud! All you trolls should be ashamed of yourselves!! Master promised me 72 definitely not virginal goddesses of my own in the afterlife for following his twitter feed in my time on this planet. Yes, yes, I will be laughing my ass off with 72 used up coke whores while the rest of you beg for Master to let you in to our Sober Valley Lodge in the sky!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!