Is Eminem dead? Fans of the Grammy-winning rapper and actor thought so after the phrase began trending online — here’s what really happened.
Source: Getty Images
Throughout his career, Eminem has made headlines for numerous reasons, but fans were particularly startled when they believed he was dead. In August 2023, the phrase “Eminem dead” began trending on social media — prompting many people to assume that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer had passed away.
However, this was quickly revealed to be another death hoax.
Article continues below advertisement
What started the “Eminem dead” rumor in the first place? Continue reading to find out how the phrase got started and what the 8 Mile star’s representatives had to say about his fake death.
Advertisement
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time this has happened to the Missouri native. There’s also some history behind the Eminem death hoax.
Source: Getty Images
Article continues below advertisement
‘Eminem dead’ began trending thanks to a random Facebook page.
Per The Sun US, rumors of Eminem’s death came from a Facebook page that falsely claimed the rapper had died. Many fans saw the page, entitled “R.I.P Eminem,” and assumed that its claims of his demise were true. They took to social media and reacted to the “news,” which kept spreading the idea.
But skeptics pointed out that major entertainment outlets never picked up the news, which wouldn’t make sense given Eminem’s popularity and critical acclaim.
When the hoax made its way to Eminem’s management team, they had a straight-to-the-point response: “He’s still alive and well. Stop believing what you see on the Internet.”
If that sounded overly blunt, it may be because Eminem has been feared dead before. As The Sun pointed out, the 15-time Grammy winner was also the victim of another death hoax less than a year earlier in December 2022, with the #RIPEminem hashtag on Twitter.
Advertisement
Article continues below advertisement
He’s also the subject of a bizarre conspiracy theory, which claims that Eminem has been dead since 2006 and replaced with a clone. According to this theory, the secret society known as the Illuminati took a sample of Eminem’s DNA and created a copy of the “Lose Yourself” artist, who Eminem fans are seeing today.
The story is part of a wide-ranging belief that many music stars have been cloned, including Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, and Justin Timberlake.
Advertisement
Article continues below advertisement
Eminem is the latest artist to be involved in a celebrity death hoax.
While Eminem fans are breathing a sigh of relief, they aren’t the first fan base to be duped. Social media has made it easier for a celebrity death hoax to happen because comments and speculation can quickly be seen by millions of people online. But that’s not the only way that misinformation gets around.
Foo Fighters icon Dave Grohl has been the subject of a death hoax numerous times. Most infamously in 2006, he found out he was “dead” when a friend called his wife Jordyn with condolences.
In 2011, Rolling Stone reported that a Pennsylvania man started a Jon Bon Jovi death hoax because he felt Bon Jovi wasn’t paying enough attention to making music.
And in July 2023, “Celine Dion Dead” began to trend and spark anguish among the “My Heart Will Go On” singer’s fan base when she was also alive and well.
Advertisement
Celebrity death hoaxes are surprisingly not that rare, but Eminem can now add his name to the lengthy list of performers who have been killed off by the Internet.
In a viral video, a nanny revealed that the dad of the family she works for asked her to clean the house for Thanksgiving. Read on for more details.
Source: TikTok/@kuuipodawn
Just a heads-up in case you forgot: nannies are not maids! It’s honestly baffling how some folks expect their nannies to handle all the household chores, tackling everything from deep cleaning the house to washing the dishes you left marinating in the sink overnight.
Article continues below advertisement
Take it from TikTok creator Ku’uipo Dawn (@kuuipodawn), who decided to crash the Thanksgiving party of the family she works for because, well, she didn’t have any other plans! Before the mouth-watering feast, the patriarch threw a curveball and asked Ku’uipo to do something that was definitely not in her job description. Hold on — don’t jump to conclusions! It’s not scandalous, we promise.
Source: Getty Images
Article continues below advertisement
This dad wanted the family nanny to clean the house for Thanksgiving.
“I asked the dad of the family I nanny for if my family could come over for Thanksgiving since we don’t have plans, and he said this at the end of the video… What’re your thoughts?” Ku’uipo wrote in a text overlay of her video.
Advertisement
In the viral video, posted on Nov. 23, 2023, Ku’uipo said she and her husband Jordan kicked off Thanksgiving with his dad. When they found themselves twiddling their thumbs in boredom, Ku’uipo and her family headed out their front door and crashed the Thanksgiving party of the family she works for.
Article continues below advertisement
Now, here’s the kicker — before the big feast, the dad pulled Ku’uipo aside and asked her to tidy up his house. When she asked him if he would pay her, he replied, “Well, aren’t you coming over for Thanksgiving anyways?” He then told Ku’uipo he would pay her in the currency of the holiday gods: Food!
Article continues below advertisement
TikTok thought it was weird Ku’uipo spent Thanksgiving with her employer.
As of this writing, Ku’uipo’s video has amassed over 1.7 million views and counting. Additionally, it has garnered more than 102,200 likes and drew 1,100 comments from fellow TikTokers who just couldn’t wrap their heads around Ku’uipo spending Thanksgiving with her boss.
Advertisement
“Is it weird that the dad said that? Sure,” one person said, adding, “Is it weird to wanna spend Thanksgiving with them and invite your family over? Absolutely.”
Article continues below advertisement
Source: TikTok
A second TikTok user agreed, commenting, “I think it’s unprofessional to ask your employer to spend a holiday with them. His response isn’t great. But now he’s having to host your family. IDK.”
“You need to not go there,” a third user wrote. “There needs to [be] some separation between work and personal.”
Article continues below advertisement
A former nanny confidently stated, “If I’m inviting guests to my employer’s house, then uh yeah, I’m going to clean for free if asked.”
Advertisement
“I nannied for years and was very close with the family,” another TikTok user replied, “and I would never invite myself and my family over for holidays with them.”
Someone else pointed out, “Why would you ask [though]? At the end of the day, you’re there to work. It’s like me asking my manager if I can come over to her house for the holidays…”
Source: TikTok
Article continues below advertisement
Others took the time to defend Ku’uipo, calling out her boss’s rudeness.
“I honestly could not show up after that comment,” a TikTok user shared. “Joke or no joke, it’s uncomfortable.”
Another person replied, “I would not go and then probably quit. Really though… husbands tend to be so clueless.”
Advertisement
In the caption, Ku’uipo revealed that she called the boss’s wife. She laughed it off and told Ku’uipo to brush off the demands because, on Thanksgiving, she wasn’t their nanny — she was an honored guest.
Apparently, you can ask for Delta Airline Trading Cards on flights if you go up to the pilot and ask. In fact, there’s a whole subculture around them.
I’ve been in and out of trading card game culture throughout my entire life. I hopped on them early when games like Yu-Gi-Oh!came out when I was a kid and made the jump to other games like Magic: The Gathering. As of this writing, I’m currently obsessed with the Digimon Trading Card Game.
All this to say that I’m well aware of the collector lifestyle that includes buying expensive booster boxes and even hunting down single copies for cards at reasonable prices.
Article continues below advertisement
Advertisement
But I never would have imagined that people would be out there doing the same for Delta Airlines. Yes, that Delta Airlines.
Apparently, there’s an entire trading card scene for Delta Airlines. Some folks are just discovering it, but it turns out that they’ve been around for a while. You’ll never believe how people are getting their hands on them.
Here’s everything you ought to know about these cards.
Article continues below advertisement
Delta Airlines has sets of trading cards that you can start collecting on your next flight.
A viral TikTok with nearly 15 million views (as of this writing) started bringing these special cards to people’s attention. In late November 2023, TikToker @sarowarrr posted a video in which they collected their first Delta Airlines trading card.
Advertisement
In the video, OP goes up to the captain of his Delta Airlines plane and asks him for a card. Shockingly, the pilot walks him through the process.
Article continues below advertisement
At the time, the captain didn’t have any on him, but he pointed OP toward his first officer to see if they had any left. Sure enough, OP and his flying companion were able to deplane with their first set of Delta Airlines trading cards.
Article continues below advertisement
There are a couple of interesting things we can glean from that interaction. For one, the pilot was totally willing to give out cards if he had any, indicating that he was used to the request. Not only that, but he had also run out of cards on his person, meaning that enough people had already asked and cleaned him out of his stock!
Advertisement
Article continues below advertisement
Delta Airlines themselves have even posted about the cards in the past. Based on what we’ve seen, you can always ask the pilot for a card (just don’t do it while they’re flying).
As for the cards themselves, they represent different models of aircraft that Delta Airlines uses. They even come complete with a holographic finish for some real collector’s value.
Article continues below advertisement
According to some, these cards have been available on flights since 2004. New versions of the cards are released every year, with people amassing collections based on how often they travel.
Advertisement
Reportedly, other airlines like American Airlines and Frontier also offer their own cards.
Article continues below advertisement
And like any trading card scene, there’s even a secondary market for them. People sell some of their Delta Airlines cards on sites like eBay. Newer cards are less expensive, but cards from earlier generations can fetch a pretty penny! As of this writing, there’s an entire set of cards on sale for $3000 with some users keeping an eye on the listing!
The trading card collection grind is no joke on a good day, but if Delta Airlines is any indication, everyone seems to have their own little card culture!
A Paris resident detailed the “clear cup scam” some beggars of the city employ — it’s a guilt-inducing ploy to try and get cash from pedestrians.
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
Article continues below advertisement
As an American living in The City of Light, Amanda has some keen insight as to what might stand out to outsiders as they’re walking about Paris, and this time she’s set her sights on a common scam employed by some of the city’s beggars: the clear cup scam.
In a video she uploaded to TikTok that’s accrued over 20.1 million views on the popular social media platform, Amanda gave the run down on how the scam works while telling visitors what to keep an eye on. “Clear cup scam in Paris. These guys are out here every day and the police control them constantly. They can get aggressive with you so just keep walking if it ever happens to you,” she writes in a caption for the clip.
Article continues below advertisement
Advertisement
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
She then goes on to say in her video: “This is one of the most common scams you’re gonna find in Paris: the clear cup scam. Watch as this man almost knocks it over, you see that?” the TikToker narrates over video footage of the clear cup scam in action.
Article continues below advertisement
She then explains why Paris’ hordes of panhandlers sometimes implement this ploy and how the finagling works: “It’s a clear cup filled with coins just a couple, to help weigh it down, and they place it very far out in high traffic areas on sidewalks, knowing that people will probably knock it over, like this guy did,” she says, pointing to footage of a pedestrian accidentally hitting the cup over.
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
Article continues below advertisement
So how does the scam work? Amanda gives the details: “Now you might be watching this thinking, Amanda, where is the scam it’s a homeless person begging for money, like have some heart. And I get where you’re coming from, but that’s not the case.”
She then delves into what the scam is all about: “These guys are out here every single day and when the police see them, they will take away their cups and their stuff and tell them to get out of here because they know what they’re doing is dishonest and a scam.”
Advertisement
Article continues below advertisement
Amanda delineates why the police take such a hard stance against these con-artists: “they purposely use clear cups because you’re not going to see it with just a couple coins and they put it very, very far out where people are going to knock it over. What they’re banking on is you know it over and you go oh my God I just knocked over a homeless person’s cup. I’m such a jerk I’m gonna give them money.”
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
Article continues below advertisement
It’s that guilt of knocking over an indigent person’s belongings, a person who is sitting on the street and literally begging for handouts from strangers, where the root of this con lies, however, she says that things can go south pretty quickly. “That’s the tame version of this scam the not tame version of this is when you knock it over and you just keep walking and you help pick it up but you don’t give money.”
Amanda continued, “They’ll start yelling at you. It’s typically a boy who does this, they always do it in my neighborhood so I see him all the time, he’ll start yelling at you and say you knocked over my cup you have to give me money. They’ll start yelling at you getting loud at you. I got a DM from a girl today who told me that she knocked over the cup and the boy was there and he spat at her.”
Article continues below advertisement
Advertisement
So while these beggars may be poor and indigent and looking for other people to fund their existences, Amanda says there are instances where they can get aggressive, violent, rude, and disrespectful as part of their con: “He started following her and he spat at her. The police are aware of it as I said but they’re out here every day.”
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
Article continues below advertisement
Amanda said that the beggars in her area who try and pull this con usually pull this scam in areas with high foot traffic like the Louvre and its surrounding area.
“The reason I’m telling you this is if you’re here in Paris and you happen to knock over the cup, don’t feel obligated to give money unless you want and if they start getting loud with you just keep walking.”
A number of people who saw her video commented that the couldn’t understand why anyone would travel to Paris in the first place as this “scam” she listed is just yet another reason they see to keep away from the city for as long as possible.
Article continues below advertisement
Advertisement
Source: TikTok | @americanfille
“Paris sounds ghetto,” one penned, which was a sentiment someone else agreed with: “Damn paris is so ghetto”
Another commenter remarked that being yelled at by a panhandler probably wouldn’t end well for the con artist: “I don’t have the patience to deal with that I’d end up screaming back at them”
Someone else just straight up asked: “why are people still travelling to paris?”
Usamos cookies en nuestro sitio web para brindarle la experiencia más relevante recordando sus preferencias y visitas repetidas. Al hacer clic en "Aceptar", acepta el uso de TODAS las cookies.
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.