Today's media scum don't write for newspapers, or magazines, or tabloids, they don't even write for blogs or websites, no they just create one-off, single page tablogs that feature a prominent Digg button and morbidly titillating content.
Take for instance this site: When Is Britney going to Die? Sure, they don't know how to use capitalization in a headline, and their design is essentially a picture, a graph and a form, but hey, they're giving away a Playstation 3 if you can predict the exact time of Britney Spears' death, down to the minute. Classy.







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How delightfully morbid...
"Today's media scum don't write for newspapers, or magazines, or tabloids, they don't even write for blogs or websites - they are Britney Spears."
Fixed that for you then. Does ASAP count as an answer?
What? Isn't she already?
Hahaha I saw this earlier today. I just couldn't bring myself to do it though.
You can't be surprised. Welcome to the internet; morality is dead.
Britney could so easily cheat at this game.
Die physically or just her career? Because her career is long since over :)
So when does this contest end?
That's really morbid. But in this day and age where we're desensitized by movies like Saw and that Olsen Twins movie, this is to be expected.
That is just pathetic!
PS5 or PS6 will probably be out by the time we find out. And by that time, I wouldn't want a PS3
That's very sad. :( Will there ever be a day when people getting off on others' misery will end? :(
What happens when she finally finishes rehab and decides to live for like fifty more years. Can I get a PS8 or at least 7 but let it be known that I want the one with backwards compatability or none at all.
We all better hope someone doesn't try to kill her for a PS3. Gamers got enough legal trouble as it is.
To be truly morbid; you could say ... it invites murder to the table.
March 15, 2008 2:52 AM EST
Trips over a beer bottle and lands face first into a fireplace.
Can't wait for mah PS3!
Ok that's just freaking stupid.
Sick.
just sad. i feel bad for her because the paparazzi are always around her. must be a miserable time for her.
hmm...win ps3 and get tons of porno spamletters to my aol, or not....
So sad.....yet so tempting. D:
I cannot say I approve, neither do I despise...
Wait is she sick or something? I haven't read a tabloid...ever...so I'm not up on the celeb gossip.
@EnigmaNemesis:
Completely. Very wrong of the site to do that too, even if it's Britney Spears.
There is an amy whinehouse one as well, same format and layout.
[www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com]
Shes only worth an ipod tho lol
"Leave Britney alone!"
Come on March 23, 2009 at 4:32 pm....daddy wants another PS3 to hock.
what are the chances of Britney dying anytime soon...seriously? We have a better chance guessing when she started going crazy?
This seems wrong to me.
@jmontilla2786: Better question - who actually cares anymore?
ya, that's really sick.
Why cover such scum though? Crcente, do you believe this type of stuff deserves more exposure? I certainly don't.
sad
@Sunjammer: Thats for dame sure.
i mean i don't like the girl's music... but this is pathetic. i mean i hope people reading realize wht a cruel world we live in. there's humor and there's idiotic shit like this that gets fed to the masses to fuel ignorance and bigotry. shame on anyone who even dares to enter any of these contests.
ugh
just wrong...
this is really fucked up. no matter if one likes britney spears or what she does i don´t think this is funny.
@Nightshift_Nurse: Hah, Im suprised it took so many post for that one to come out.
Good form old man.
We're one step closer to death sports.
We've achieved death gambling.
@ssjmichael: i don't think Crecente is down with this crap, hence when he wrote "classy" . chalk it up to synical journalism at its best.
Interesting. Maybe I'll take a crack at it. I still need a PS3.
@casper_uk: Man, some of those photos on the site literally made me sick to my stomach. How can one let herself get so skinny? Oh, and lol @ the "worth" joke.
@McBonk: I know they shoulda offered a Wii
and to add:
i hope this dude running the site gets sued. people get sued for all kinds of crap and if suing this guy would lead to avoiding having "bet on when your neighbour dies" sites spreading (which i see coming if this becomes succesful) then hat´s not all bad.
if someone thinks such a site is funny he should think about how funny he thinks it is when someone makes such a site about him.
Ouch. Just imagine someone making a website about when YOU are going to die? How would that make you feel? I don't especially care about Britney, but I wouldn't wish this on anyone (well, maybe one or two people...).
I'm sure her lawyers will look into this.
at least they didn't have you bet on the how long her children will live.
does the guy who wrote this feels any happyer, or does he have a feeling of accomplishment related to doing that ?
No matter how much of a twat Spears may be, this is just sick, childish and stupid.
Classy, real classy. Spears, Anna Nicole, Paris Hilton, Lohan... and a nation of cunts feasting on tabloids in order to feel better about their pathetic selves.
I sense an open and shut case for the police; all they'll need to do is hunt down the guy who won the system.
So, since this can't be anything more than a joke, as fucked up as it is.... Am I the only one laughing?
@hikergirl:
Yeah. Its right behind World Peace and End of Poverty in the long line of things that are possible but will be realized.
No comments.
@zanzibarlegend:
I know he doesn't "support" it, but he's giving this shit exposure that it does not deserve. I don't get that. I mean there's also a million pyramid schemes where you can win a PS3, should they cover that too? This is not something that deserves any sort of attention and its going to get it.
@Youlikeyams: Truee, but I actually wanna care cuz I don't wanna it to end up like Anna Nicole Smith. I swear me and my friend were cracking up when we found out that she died. As much as I wouldnt mind doing it again, I rather save that for Paris Hilton.
This has no business on this site, were just giving it free publicity. While I know Crecente is not supporting this in any way there are joking comments on here that just all gamers a bad name.
@R0D1MUSPRIME:
Totally agree
@Terrorsaur:
crap!
*will never be realized.
Correction never happened.
@Lotharian: Wouldn't have much use for the PS3 tho ;)
This is just a natural evolution of those adbanners that ask you to guess some meaningless trivia about a celebrity to win a random expensive consumer product.
@Psudonym: I guess Death Race might actually become a reality. Especially with the writer's strike going on, i wouldnt be surprised. And as demeaning as it will be I know the U.S. is sick enough to watch it and make it the highest rated program ever. And if think I'm being a jackass just look at the fact that we watch people embrass themselves ( every reality show ever), screw and lie ( most reality shows) and starve themselves to death ( Survivor, Big Brother) to for ratings and sometimes the blurred " lifelong dream" for something.
@whalemenace: Nope, I am also laughing. This is just sick and stupid..so much it somewhat funny.
Good luck to those participating xD (It is a FREE PS3 after all..)
@ssjmichael: @R0D1MUSPRIME: Agreed and agreed. PS3 or no PS3, this has *nothing* to do with videogames, thus it shouldn't be here for people with the emotional maturity of a snotty brat to make wiseass comments about.
So the site has a flash-enabled gallery of photos, showing Britney's "parts" at her worst. Uggh.
On top of that, you send your "condolences," and can view previous condolences, with over 1,000 pages of 10 posts each. Yeah, that's 10,000 posts, with 8 "unique" posts, so about 9,000ish posts in actuality.
There, I've fully disected the terrible site.
All jokes etc. aside, I've gotta say I feel really sorrow for Britney. She got into Showbiz when she was so, so young, and the media just chewed her up and spat her out... Hell, she was world famous when she was what? 16? 17? 18? How can someone cope with that? I'm 20 and I can barely cope with having the flu... <.<
Gambling on death is m