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Okay, here is one thing that I just 100% do not understand in the slightest. What is WITH people and the rumors on the internet that people are dead? Seriously, can we go through this together and try to clear it up, because it's confusing me beyond comprehension.

A few months ago someone apparently "hacked" Miley Cyrus' YouTube account and posted a video telling all the pre-teen Miley worshippers that their down-south BFF4EVA was dead. The video was titled RIP Miley and expressed sentiments that Miley had always said that if she died, she wanted the news released to her loyal fans before it hit the public. So naturally it was posted on YouTube... which you know... isn't the public or anything at all...

It was mass hysteria on the internet. From videos with weeping children to poems and songs written about her to those smart whippersnappers out there who understood that it was a hoax immediately, even one person who proclaimed that she "Can't be dead! She has to appear on the TRL Finale show!" Well, in that case...

I don't understand the mindset behind the people starting the _______ is dead rumours, at all! Why that certain person? Why dead? Why not something more interesting? "_________ joined the Cirque Du Soleil as a Fire Swallower!" or "_________ quit the band and moved to the Swiss alps to learn how to play the alphorn!" Dead?? That's just no fun at all. Every time I hear a ______ is dead rumor, I can't help but to chuckle at it a little. (Unless they really are dead, but that's an entirely different story).

Like when the rumor that Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance was dead. Do you KNOW how many variations of his death I heard? Being a huge My Chem fan, I have a lot of friends who are also My Chem fans, some quite younger than I that I've talked to on the internet, or met in line for a show, but I'm really good with keeping in contact with people, so when the Gerard Way is Dead rumor started circulating I got like twenty e-mails from kids who whole-heartedly believed it, and were letting me know about his gruesome and grisly death!

"Gerard Way was hit by a car in LA and killed!"

"Oh my god, did you heard? Gerard Way was shot!"

"Holy crap! Gerard Way fell down a flight of stairs and broke his neck and died!"

And my personal favourite, and I am honest to god serious about this...

"Gerard went hiking and was attacked by a bear and he died!"

Attacked by a bear... really? I mean, I'll admit, it's much more creative than getting hit by a car... but.. really?

Let me try one!

"Gerard Way was going jogging one morning, and he put on his headphones and started going... because he had his headphones on he didn't hear the car of the Gangsters quietly 'rollin up on him' and before he knew it, he was grabbed and dragged into the car, and it sped off and drove up to Wine Country with him in the trunk, and when they got him there, they pulled him into a Vineyard and brought him to his knees and put a gun to his head and shot him and killed him! And he had his headphones on the entire time and the very last thing that he heard on this mortal coil was his own voice singing 'Wouldn't it be grand to take a pistol by the hand? And wouldn't it be great if we were dead?'"

No joke. I saw it on E!

Seriously, people. The amusement of these ________ is dead hoaxes is wearing pretty thin. Unless you're going to come up with something really creative, don't bother. You're not being original, you're just kind of being a prick.