{"id":7698,"date":"2015-07-28T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/07\/01\/gotye-gotcha-singer-isnt-dead\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:49:13","slug":"gotye-gotcha-singer-isntdead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/7698","title":{"rendered":"Gotye gotcha: Singer isn’t dead"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gotye\/status\/219431193349849088\n

Relax, Gotye fans. Your guy is alive and well. He’s merely the latest subject of an online death hoax<\/a>. (Dear CNN: You might want to put a little more effort into vetting the “news” posts on your iReport site. Sincerely, Accuracy.)<\/p>\n

The “Somebody That I Used to Know” singer – and his management, for good measure – personally disputed the report.<\/p>\n\n\n

We're happy to report Wally is alive and well. Tell your friends \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

— GotyeHQ (@GotyeHQ) July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Wally is Gotye’s real name.)<\/p>\n

It took about half a second for the inevitable joke to appear:<\/p>\n\n\n

Gotye is dead. Now he's just somebody that we used to know<\/p>\n

— Aaron Saarinen (@aieos) July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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And only a bit longer for the requisite “yeah, but Justin Bieber sucks!” tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n

Gotye is dead? Why don't Twitter kill Justin Bieber first?<\/p>\n

— epal misai (@iAppleMustache) July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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At least the hoax was a change from the usual snowboarding death story<\/a> we’ve come to know and adore. It’s all getting to be old hat for Twitter veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n

If you believe Gotye is dead. You must be new here. (here in twitter everyone dies)<\/p>\n

— David (@DavidKrap) July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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But look here! Perhaps the person who posted the phony iReport story got inspiration from a high source?<\/p>\n\n\n

Tough but fair. RT @BarackObama<\/a>: Because Gotye is so terrible, I’m outlawing male-female duets for a period of three years.<\/p>\n

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 27, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Actually, no. First, Rob Delaney’s a comedian (he also posts fake tweets that supposedly come from Mitt Romney’s account). Second, a scan of the Obama 2012 feed revealed no such tweet. To paraphrase the still-breathing Gotye, surely the president’s people wouldn’t have to stoop so low. On this topic, anyway.<\/p>\n

As one tweeter knows, this episode merely confirms Gotye’s status as a major celeb.<\/p>\n\n\n

@GotyeHQ<\/a> You're not big until a "death" rumour arises!<\/p>\n

— AndTheFoul.net (@Andthefoulnet) July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gotye\/status\/219431193349849088 Relax, Gotye fans. Your guy is alive and well. He’s merely the latest subject of an online death hoax. (Dear CNN: You might want to put a little more effort into vetting the “news” posts on your iReport site. Sincerely, Accuracy.) The “Somebody That I Used to Know” singer – and his management, for good … Continue reading Gotye gotcha: Singer isn’t dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}