People going crazy over a dude in the Mall
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huey
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Last Saturday we went to a popular mall in Virginia and conducted a bit of a social experiment. Using his real first and middle name, and with the help of just a few staged people, tons of people believed Thomas was a famous actor, including mall security. The mall assigned us a security detail who escorted us everywhere and helped close stores for the supposed celebrity. They also took us through private corridors to avoid the frenzy. Our cameras were quickly shut down, and most of our footage was captured with a single iphone. The following is just a taste of all the autographs, pictures, and people who wanted get close to all the commotion.
The kicker is he faked being a celebrity pretty easily, and chaos ensued.
notice the teen white ? excited as ? for someone they're not entirely sure of who they are. smh
I wonder what this says about our society?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C9Ko6Xfa84w#!
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That ? funny. People are so ? gullible. Like, I've never heard of this dude in my life, but they say he is a celeb so it must be true. smh
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This proves wat I've known all my life
There are a bunch of girls who just like someone becuz they think they're popular. If someone like Drake wasn't famous no females would pay that down syndrome looking ? no attention lol -
smh @ handing that ? your baby
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how do we know all of it ain't fake though?
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Thomas Elliot is a “famous” dude who has Virginia shoppers going nuts over him — for doing nothing at all.
Along with his team at Chill Hill Media, Elliot (whose name is actually Thomas Cramer — his middle name is Elliot) entered MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk, Virginia with the intention to trick everyone into believing he was a celebrity.
According to Cramer, it only took four minutes to do so.
“It just so happened to catch wind so early — a gentleman had asked for a picture not knowing who I was and then the security witnessed it,” says Cramer. “I think the security coming to aid was one of the biggest facilitators of it, just because it drew so much attention.”
The simple stunt landed the “celebrity” three security guards, which Cramer says the team initially ducked into a Vans store to avoid what they thought was going to be conflict. Instead, they remained with them throughout the entire trip to the mall. According to Cramer, there was very little communication between security and his team during the process.
“I didn’t say a word — they never asked who we were, they never asked what we did,” says Cramer. “We didn’t lie to security, we just didn’t talk about it. It was just assumed that I was a celebrity and they needed to fend off fans.”
Mall-goers pegged Thomas Elliot as a character from The Hunger Games, Spiderman and even Titanic — all of which Cramer says neither he nor his team came up with. The idea to collect tweets came after the experiment.
Although Cramer claims this was case study and a social experiment, he says first and foremost he just wanted to accomplish a really cool project.
Mission accomplished.
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lol wow
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Ah MacArthur mall in Norfolk, VA. My boys was telling me about this. LOL
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He should have ? one of those white ? if he was a real nicca
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brain dead society. I should go out and pretend to a famous rapper with an entire entourage and camera crew and see what happens.
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LMAO@ the security taking pics with him
Heard about this on the news last week, was baffled at the stupidity of people and Hollywood. ? is GOAT, that's what you call trolling. -
? olympics
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the ? type of store is cotton on
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i know he smashed that chick that night
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LOL I woulda had to smash one of them groupie females just to see the look on her face in the a.m.
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hilarious
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Lol this exposes more about women than men most men were just like who the ? is that? White girls were damn near spreading there legs in front of the cinnabun
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He got the TROLL OF THE YEAR award on lock this year.
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I don't know whether to lol or smh.This proves wat I've known all my life
There are a bunch of girls who just like someone becuz they think they're popular. If someone like Drake wasn't famous no females would pay that down syndrome looking ? no attention lol
C/S All this ? here. been saying the same ? ...
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i know he got a lot of ? pullin this ?
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It's crazy how people obsess over fame like this
what was there to really gain from hounding him?
Are our lives so boring and meaningless that meeting a celebrity is that important?
