Not only is Avril Lavigne most definitely not dead, but her career appears to be thriving as well.
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"We found no reason to believe foul play was a factor in his death but intent to perform a full investigation." Freda in a brief statement to Local 4 CBS News. Schwarzenegger in his bedroom deceased around 9:30 pm on Wednesday," said Las Angeles Police Chief James J. Upon entering the residence, police found Schwarzenegger's deceased body in his bed. home after receiving a 911 emergency call for a "unresponsive male". "Arnold Schwarzenegger was found dead at his Las Angeles, California home. The report (via Snopes) was filled with typos and grammatical errors. That appeared to be the case earlier this summer, when a site called claimed Arnold Schwarzenegger was found dead. Some of these sites allow users to submit their own stories, resulting in crude accounts that still somehow fool people and go viral. In the last five years or so, many websites have popped up with the sole purpose of spreading fake celebrity news, which often goes viral and leads to thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of clicks. The Canadian singer is one of many to fall victim to a death hoax.
"Avril Lavigne was air lifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the musician died instantly from the impact of the crash," the story continued. "Witnesses indicate that Avril Lavigne lost control of her snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed." In 2003, Canadian singer and Japanophile Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by an industry-planted clone named ‘ Melissa Vandella ‘. "The singer/songwriter & novice snowboarder was vacationing at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort located 125 km north of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada with family and friends," the story claimed, via Gossip Cop. A more conventional celebrity death hoax surfaced in 2013, claiming that she died during a ski trip. Many people shared the story on Twitter, seemingly believing the odd news.īut this is actually not the first time that a false report has claimed Avril Lavigne is dead. The report that Avril Lavigne is dead seems to prove that point all too well. The blog actually had a deeper purpose, showing just how easily a conspiracy theory can be manufactured and how easy death hoaxes can spread online, but it was slipped in near the end (and written in Spanish), leading many people to miss it entirely. It even went so far as to include side-by-side comparisons to show that the "new" Avril was a fake.
The story comes back to a blog called Avril Esté Morta, which claims that sometime around 2002 or shortly afterward, Avril Lavigne actually killed herself and was replaced by a doppelganger. The story got new life thanks to Buzzfeed's Ryan Broderick, whose recent report about the story seemed to give it another set of legs. Reports that Avril Lavigne may be dead spread through the internet this week, reviving a bizarre internet conspiracy theory that the singer actually committed suicide more than a decade ago and has been replaced by a lookalike.
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