Avril Lavigne Death Hoax
JOUR 1030 - Principles of American Journalism
University of Cincinnati
In the entertainment industry, it can often seem as if fake news is just as common as real news.
The media can be a spiraling black hole, capable of twisting almost any public figure’s words
or actions. This industry is full of people whose lives are constantly followed and kept up with
and always surrounded with fans wanting to know what will happen next. The media knows
that they can easily spread a wildfire of news or even just rumors through a celebrity’s
widespread fan base. A Brazilian blog did just that with singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
Starting in 2011, this blog conspired a theory that Avril Lavigne had died and was now being
impersonated with a doppelganger named Melissa. This conspiracy spiraled through the
internet and the damage of the rumor was already done when the writer of the blog finally
confessed to its theory’s fabrication. What is interesting to evaluate is how this blog writer
created this elaborate theory, how many people believed in it, and why it seemed to be so
possible that it could be accurate.
When evaluating a fake news story, it is important to collect a range of reasoning for howthe
story came about, and why it needs to evaluated on a spectrum of truth. In this case, the writer
on this Brazilian blog writes that he released this story due to the high concern from Avril’s
populated fan base that something was wrong or that major changes had occurred.
Covering up a death with a doppelganger seems a little out there but this writer was convinced
that the evidence matched up. The theory itself was posted on a blog dedicated specifically to
this entire subject, the link being found at http://avrilestamorta.blogspot.com.br. When talking
about the writer’s partisan orientation, it seems that their dedication to the news world is mainly
revolved around this specific conspiracy. It is possible that the writer has a wider spread of fake
news stories or conspiracy theories but it is also possible that he/she is merely just a fan with
an extensively elaborate imagination and determination for finding an explanation for the gaps
in Avril’s public life.
When looking into this conspiracy itself, the writer did an extremely elaborate study on the
different pieces of evidence that he/she found to back up the idea of this death and
impersonation. This evidence ranged from morbid song lyrics, change in style and personality,
suspicious pictures, and more. The writer specifically studied some of Avril’s songs specifically
titles such as “Nobody’s Home”, “Together”, “How Does It Feel?”, and “Take Me Away”. In
these songs Avril wrote lyrics about her struggles with her feelings, and supposed suggestion
to believe in her suicide. In the song “Take Me Away”, she wrote the lyrics “All I do is hide…I
can
not handle this mess…”. The suicide suggestion stems from lyrics from the song “My Happy
Ending”, when she writes “Hanging so high…On such a fragile rope…”. While it is possible
to think that this expresses emotions that are becoming too much for the singer to handle, it
could also be that they were written to speak to an audience that struggles with their inner self,
giving them reassurance that they do not feel alone and that Avril simply had a desire to connect
to her fans on the level of teenage emotions but that she does not feel the lyrics as deeply as
they are written. The writer also found suspicious pictures that portrayed disturbing images
such as a photo of Avril wearing a shirt with a black and white photo exhibiting an image of a
dead girl with closed eyes. The darkness that was portrayed by Avril’s style and song lyrics
may just be the way that she chooses to portray herself as an artist, but in this case, the creator
of this detailed conspiracy uses her style as a way to back up his/her beliefs.
In a world where the internet is so prominent in our lives, both fake and real news spreads
through social media like wildfire. For this specific story, its method of dissemination was
mainly through Twitter and a high population of fans and regular users interested in the
accusations but also through other highly viewed websites such as the Guardian and The
Rolling Stone that dedicated a story to evaluated this blog and theory itself. When these highly
followed and commonly respected outlets wrote stories to follow up on the conspiracy, it drew
attention to the theory and opened up more room for interpretation on whether or not it could
be true. These more reliable sources seemed to steer to the side of reasons to see that the theory
was simply a hoax and while addressed the idea of her death followed by personation, they
went on to follow up with reason to show that Avril is still Avril. Specifically, the Guardian
wrote about the ideas with the quote, “Theorists also believe Melissa has left clues in songs,
such as ‘Slipped Away’,
in which she sings: “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same”.
There was even a publicity shoot in which Lavigne had “Melissa” written on her hand.
Spooky.” Whileeven though this could veer in the direction of believing in the death of Avril
Lavigne, The Guardian went on in their article to give several examples of celebrities that fell
into the same hoax such as Paul McCartney, whose absence from the press can merely cause
people to fall intoa world of imagination.
The responses of the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory on social media were extremely evident.
Many people wrote about their uneasy feelings after watching videos dedicated to
evaluating the conspiracy. Others created their own thread of tweets with the collected
evidence, passing the word along to their followers and reeling in more people to believe with
each tweet.
With so many different assumptions to make, no clear statements being made from people
actually in contact with Avril, and a widespread of collected possibilities, the writer of the
original blog was able to create an very detailed theory that could be interpreted for hours on
end without ever reaching a 100% proven conclusion. In July of 2015, the writer of the blog
posted about the fabrication of his story while still leaving his side of open for interpretation.
Snopes.com posted the quote in their evaluation of the hoax and at the end of it the blog spot
writer states, “You will observe I left some clues that it was all just a theory and not a fact, for
example when in the beginning of the blog I referenced the “supposed death of the singer Avril
Lavigne.” In other words, it’s just a guess! If you want to believe that she is dead, that is your
choice, but I said that it was all just a theory created by me”. After this statement was released,
people may be less inclined to believe in the conspiracy but the theory is still all the while open
for interpretation.
That’s the thing about fake news, it is often open for interpretation. Whether a reader wants to
believe or not is their right. It is also a writer’s right to have free speech. Anyone can come up
with a fabricated story and easily spread it through the wildfire that we call the internet with
any sort of motive that they please. It is up to us to evaluate what news is real and what news
is fake in order to keep the media industry as accurate and reliable as we can.
