This post is from intern Taylor Rao:
It’d be difficult to believe that a million people that would ever follow Charlie Sheen’s example of boisterous behavior, but it is indeed true that they’d at least follow his Twitter account.
One million followers in 24 hours? One can only imagine what exactly he was doing in that time span, considering he’d racked up 60,000 of them before posting a single tweet.
Although he may not earn his role on “Two and a Half Men” back, he’ll at least be oddly proud to know that he set a Guinness World Record, the first in the category, “Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers.”
There are several things that simply cannot be explained well enough in this supposedly newsworthy story (And by that I mean the entire Charlie Sheen catastrophe, not just the Twitter nonsense). My top two frustrations and confusions begin here:
1. Who genuinely, truly, wholeheartedly can admit that Charlie Sheen’s personal life and atrocious behavior is a topic that deserves to be discussed as frequently as it is? I’m so behind reading up on Lindsay Lohan because my news cycle routine has been completely thrown off; a direct result of his various interviews and laughs out loud ridiculous statements. Gosh, celebrities are so selfish.
2. What is “#winning” and why, actually how is Sheen receiving enormous amounts of praise via Twitter? The only thing more bizarre than Sheen’s gallivants is the people that support him. The last thing this deranged, attention-hungry man needs is more attention and encouragement to keep acting out for the purpose of making news headlines once again.
All I can say is that he won’t be “#winning” for much longer, when people get fed up with him and Britney Spears shaves her head again.