Your favourite Hollywood celebrity did not die in a snowboarding accident
If you have gone into mourning after hearing regarding the death of your favourite Hollywood celebrity in a snowboarding accident, then you are not alone. Millions of celebrity-obsessed people have been suffering from a panic-attack after coming across somewhat
similar reports.
The tragic hearsay, which routinely mentions a celebrity, snowboarding or a tree on some resort, are nothing more than rumours that started on Global Associated News, a site with questionable credibility.
The popular Hollywood celebrities that have already met their demise, as per the circulating rumours, include Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Owen Wilson, Christian Slater and Avril Lavigne. Even the 12-year-old multi-talented son of Will Smith,
Jaden Smith, was not spared.
With the exception of Lavigne, all the mentioned celebrities were reported to have died after colliding with the trees in Zermatt. The Canadian singer allegedly met her tragic end at Whistler, a Canadian resort town.
The fabricated news further moves on to describe the details of the tragedy and the witness accounts. Even the small details are taken care of, such as mentioning that the 'novice' was wearing a helmet. With all the bases covered, the rumour-monger releases
the fragmented news on the internet, where it spreads like a wild-fire.
Even though internet-users have been warned about the amount of misinformation and false news published on the dotcoms countless times. Rumours, such as these, still manage to give celebrity-obsessed fans a panic attack. Their heart-beats return to normal
only after investigating the tragedy and breaking the news of its illegitimacy.
Hardly anyone bothers to go through the disclaimer that reads: “This story was dynamically generated using a generic 'template' and is not factual. Any reference to specific individuals has been 100% fabricated by web site visitors who have created fake
stories by entering a name into a blank 'non-specific' template for the purpose of entertainment.”
Though such twisted rumours have plagued the internet for as long as one can remember, finding snowboarding as the culprit in the recent hoaxes is quite strange. Instead of something that is widely associated with causing deaths in Hollywood, i.e. drugs,
the rumours mention the popular action sport’s involvement in the tragic deaths.
Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist and bestselling author, shared her assessment of the recent trend found in celebrity-death rumours, saying, “Psychologically, we associate cold, barren landscapes with snow and death. People who start
these rumours are likely to have participated in skiing or snowboarding themselves and have experienced the feeling of having barely escaped death during some of these runs.”
She further said that even though the rumour-mongers joke about the death of their favourite celebrities, they practice a curious measure of damage control. Dr. Lieberman explained that getting the celebrity killed in a winter sport accident doesn’t damage
their reputation in the way a drug overdose would.
There have been a few speculations that the resorts mentioned in the fragmented stories have got some sort of involvement in the recent celebrity-death rumours. The description of Zermatt as Switzerland’s best resort, which receive huge snowfalls thanks
to its altitude, is just one of the many intriguing excerpts from the recent fragmented news that have raised eyebrows.
Edith Zweifel, media manager for Zermatt Tourism, dismissed the allegations, saying that the rumour-mongers can easily get the information off the resort’s website.
Now that you are aware of the fact that snowboarding has found its way into the rumour starter’s twisted sense of humour. There is no need to suffer a panic attack if you come across something like Justin Bieber getting killed after colliding with a tree
at the Alyeska resort in Alaska.
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