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A rumor that rapper Marshall Mathers, known professionally as Eminem, died started trending Tuesday on Twitter.
A rumor that rapper Marshall Mathers, known professionally as Eminem, died started trending on Tuesday on Twitter after some netizens created the hoax. The trend continued to grow, garnering more than 17,500 mentions.
Heavy reached out to Eminem’s rep to see if they had a comment on the hoax, but didn’t immediately hear back. At the time this story was published, Eminem hadn’t responded to the hoax on social media.
While the hoax was started as an apparent “joke,” it confused some Twitter users who were concerned if the rapper had passed. Others, however, took the opportunity to share memes of Eminem, where they used pictures of other notable figures like comedian Ellen DeGeneres, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, rapper logic and many more.
Eminem Alive We Are FaceTiming pic.twitter.com/nDy6UPYHAL
— WAPthony WAPtano (@theneedledrop) August 18, 2020
Me checking twitter to make sure Eminem is okay #ripeminem pic.twitter.com/Mr9geL7TT1
— Seth (@SethShaffer) August 18, 2020
BRUH I THOUGHT EMINEM ACTUALLY DIED CAUSE IT’S 2020 AND ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN BUT IT’S JUST YALL PLAYING TOO MUCH AGAIN
#ripeminem pic.twitter.com/NzUrhGFA5c— JoJo⁷❂#BLM (@jojosuniverze) August 18, 2020
Who got #ripeminem trending? Y’all can go straight to hell!😂😂 pic.twitter.com/2Z7RhW6VfL
— Andrew Stow (@andrew_stow) August 18, 2020
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