Take an overnight YouTube sensation involving a 23-year-old gay guy offering flamboyantly candid fashion advice via a homemade video series called 'Ask a Gay Man,'
-- add 800,000 online viewings in 30 days of an episode about body-appropriate jean styles,
-- toss in a dash of conspiracy theories about the significance of said gay guy's job at the GAP and ...
What do you get?
William Sledd: Is He for Real, or Is He a Marketing Gimmick?
It's hard to know what's real these days. YouTube phenomenon lonelygirl15 was exposed as a fraud several weeks ago after amassing 15 million views of her teen-angst-ridden video blog. Her realistic confessions turned out to be the creation of a couple of California filmmaker fellas and an unknown actress.
Now skeptics wonder if Sledd's sissy-fabulosa online persona (think Carson Kressley and Nathan Lane's love child) can be taken at face value, or if he's the ingenius creation of some marketing firm for the biggest name in jeans.
Either way, 14,000 people have subscribed to Sledd's video uploads, meaning that the gayest man since Paul Lynde has 14,000 YouTube fans and counting.
"Hey Bitches It's William from Paducah, KY! I'm 23 and well thats it!"
Sounds real to me. You?
Hat Tip to Trend Central
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6 comments:
I love this kid! Real or not, he is a riot!
that was so gay!
that was so gay!
that was so gay!
If you look for any of his older stuff you would not have any question as to whether or not he is gay. He's a three dollar bill babe!
The question isn't whether he's gay or not (I don't think any breathing person could doubt that), it's whether he's just a guy with a video camera doing this on his own, or if in fact he's part of a campaign from the GAP meant to look like just a guy with a video camera. /Editor.
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