Hello everyone! Glad to be back for some more PR blogging.
I'm fairly certain most of you have heard of the whole Charlie Sheen fiasco. If not, I will quickly fill you in. The actor Charlie Sheen (he's in Two and a Half Men, among other things) likes to hang out with porn stars while "banging seven gram rock," and apparently has "tiger blood" and claims "dying is for losers." In a recent interview, he made no excuses for his actions and when asked if he was proud of his actions claimed "what's not to love?" His publicist (who's reputation is probably eternally tarnished, by the way) quit, claiming he couldn't deal with Sheen (well...yeah). That sums it up.
This brings me to my next point. Charlie Sheen boasts about his wild popularity, pointing an imaginary finger (well, possibly literally, as well) to the massive amount of followers he's acquired on Twitter. Well, a recent article from the Village Voice brings to light a whole new way of ending this #winning, attention-drawing PR storm Sheen has created. The article claims there is to be an Unfollow Charlie Sheen on Twitter Day
Now that is truly winning, no hashtag required. The article goes on to say how everyone's had enough of the Sheen storm trending on Twitter, so on March 11th, everyone is supposed to go to Twitter and unfollow Charlie. Obviously March 11th has already passed, and looking at the numbers, he still has well over 2 million followers. So the event kind of failed a bit, but it was a valiant effort, in which ordinary people utilized social media, in my opinion.
Your thoughts?
-V
and for laughs:
A "songified version." It's actually pretty catchy!
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