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Baitball Blogger

(46,752 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:41 AM Oct 2012

This is what happens when you don't put a password on your computer.

Justin Bieber's laptop was stolen. Allegedly, it was found by someone who is now blackmailing him. Unless he produces the goods by noon, embarrassing videos will be posted on the internet.

Two hours from now we could be watching a Justin Bieber sex tape on YouTube. Quickly -- Bieber was had a laptop stolen from Tacoma this week. Someone with the Twitter handle @gexwy claims to be in possession of it and is tweet-threatening Bieber that he’ll make the contents public. To prove that he/she is legit, @gexwy even posted two brand new never-before-seen videos of JB to YouTube. Bieber - on Twitter at least - refuses to be intimidated:

no matter what you have and what you post tomorrow i know my fans wont leave me. screw it. #toostrong

Bieber supposedly has until today at noon to comply with whatever @gexwy has demanded. Otherwise...what?

Well... this could be like the Edison Chen scandal over again.

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This is what happens when you don't put a password on your computer. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 OP

It's a publicity stunt. Iggo Oct 2012 #1

What really matters is who is in the video with him. Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #2

You were right! Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #4

If her theory on potential damage to fans is remotely accurate... cyberswede Oct 2012 #6

It's can cause potential damage to gossip columnists who try to stay above the fray. Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #8

Yeah, but would anyone even WANT to see a Bieber sex tape? HopeHoops Oct 2012 #3

It's an icky thought. HappyMe Oct 2012 #5

Music? HopeHoops Oct 2012 #9

lol! HappyMe Oct 2012 #11

Ah. I just don't file bubblegum pop under "music". HopeHoops Oct 2012 #12

Justin Bieber and pipi_k Oct 2012 #7

You've seen the unrated version of "American Pie" I assume. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #10

They will probably release the videos of him whistler162 Oct 2012 #13

You called it. Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #14

The whole pregnancy scandal that he might be a "baby daddy" was no doubt Lex Oct 2012 #15

Iggo

(47,561 posts)

1. It's a publicity stunt.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:49 AM

Oct 2012

Baitball Blogger

(46,752 posts)

2. What really matters is who is in the video with him.

Reply to Iggo (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:52 AM

Oct 2012

If it's Selena, she'll kill him. If it's not Selena, she'll make sure he suffers first.

Baitball Blogger

(46,752 posts)

4. You were right!

Reply to Iggo (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:20 PM

Oct 2012

Lainey is not amused.

So about this potential Justin Bieber scandal with the stolen laptop and the threat of a bombshell release -- Gawker posits that it’s a publicity stunt, and I’m always on board for a famewhore theory so, assuming that it does end up being a hoax to elicit maximum coverage for a new video or whatever, the question is whether or not it’s a good move. Anything for a headline, right? Anything to drive interest, increase sales. It seems to be what works these days. Have you heard about that former American Idol contestant, Brittany Kerr, who got a little messy with married country singer Jason Aldean recently? Click here for the background. Now TMZ is reporting that Kerr has been offered her own reality show.

What’s the payoff then for a possible Bieber prank? For drawing his fans into a make-believe intrigue situation, sending them into a stress frenzy all over Twitter, so that many of them, so young and gullible and engaged, weren’t able to sleep last night...and what if there was a test today in math class and one of them couldn’t focus enough, too worried about what would happen to JB, that they weren’t able to answer the questions?

(Can we ask for a redo in school these days with that excuse? I was up all night fretting about Justin Bieber, please let me another chance...? I can totally imagine a helicopter parent making a case for this with the principal.)

They used to say that you should never f-ck around with a fan’s loyalty. That ultimately that kind of manipulation will have an adverse effect on their commitment. That they would consider it a betrayal of their steadfast support. It’s a basic tenet of customer service. Is that still true though? No Matter What seems to be the first rule of the Fan Club these days. The Modern Fan puts love before reason and, sometimes, devotion before morality. See Chris Brown.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

6. If her theory on potential damage to fans is remotely accurate...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:41 PM

Oct 2012

our society is in worse trouble than I thought.

...so that many of them...weren’t able to sleep last night...and what if there was a test today in math class and one of them couldn’t focus enough, too worried about what would happen to JB, that they weren’t able to answer the questions?

I hope she's being facetious.