Whom DO you trust?
Rich Johnston sleuths out another Marvel viral marketing plot for SECRET INVASION, this one purportedly the MySpace video blog of a teenaged girl named Kinsey whose brother Hank is acting VERY strange. Like…an Alien in fact. Jess Lemon meets LonglyGirl15! Very clever, Marvel!
Meanwhile, Marvel_b0y is widely known to be a viral plant at Marvel as well. However, the other Skrull squealer is real and was causing real office agita.
As for us, we have one rule of thumb: never believe something is real on the internet when it involves a teen-aged girl.
Now this, this is real:
04/1/08 at 8:41 am
Wot no link?
04/1/08 at 9:50 am
I could watch that weatherman laugh for the rest of my life and be totally satisfied.
04/1/08 at 10:16 am
Given that the “Jess Lemon” nonsense represented the absolute nadir of your — ahem — “journalism” career, I’d advise you to not mention it lest people remember that you think it’s OK to lie to your readers for a laff.
04/1/08 at 10:46 am
Thank you…
04/1/08 at 11:15 am
I’d dispute your claim that Marvel_B0y is “widely known” to be a viral plant - widely suspected, yes (I don’t claim to know whether s/he is a hoax or not), but not widely known, unless you actually have something in the way of FACTS to bring to this discussion.
Oh, wait, that’s right; you’re the folks behind Jess Lemon, which gives you all the credibility of FOX News! Carry on, then …
04/1/08 at 12:35 pm
I have no idea what a “Jess Lemon” is, but doing some poking around Google somehow led me to this old LitG with a rather interesting quote, given what’s happened in the intervening five years:
Joe Michael Straczynski recently confirmed that he had a contractual agreement that his work would not be editorially altered.
Wonder what happened there?
04/1/08 at 1:23 pm
[…] Marvel B0y fake!!?!?! Oh noes! […]
04/1/08 at 8:50 pm
I want to move to Haiti just to watch that guy do the weather every day.
04/2/08 at 12:11 am
I got quite the kick out of Jess Lemon myself.