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May 11, 2017 10:10 AM

The Internet is Roasting Bow Wow for Pretending to Fly on a Private Jet to New York and It’s Amazing
posted by Lexica (23 comments total)

Eh. He started out in show biz as a child. He likely has no other marketable skills. He matured as an artist in an age where record sales decline dramatically, and in a genre where visible displays of financial success are expected.

I mean, there are more deserving targets.
posted by leotrotsky at 10:26 AM on May 11, 2017 [8 favorites]

a poser is as a poser does.
posted by shockingbluamp at 10:29 AM on May 11, 2017

So we have news about a bunch of random people making fun of a minor celebrity for posting something fake by posting fake things themselves.

Have we reached peak "fake news"?
posted by nubs at 10:31 AM on May 11, 2017

I thought it was funny
posted by quaking fajita at 10:32 AM on May 11, 2017 [45 favorites]

It's not as if making fun of someone for putting on airs doesn't have literally centuries of precedence.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:33 AM on May 11, 2017 [10 favorites]

Bow Wow may or may not be a minor celebrity but those Bowwowchallenge examples were pretty funny.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 10:33 AM on May 11, 2017 [12 favorites]

I think this is less about mocking Bow Wow's goof, and more about the creative ways to fake wealth/success/status. Some of them are really funny.
posted by Cranialtorque at 10:47 AM on May 11, 2017 [10 favorites]

Back in my day, our Bows had twice the Wow.

(I chuckled at the #Bowwowchallenge. This one was pretty clever.)
posted by octobersurprise at 10:50 AM on May 11, 2017 [8 favorites]

These are really funny. I particularly like on vacation in Hawaii. I love seeing people be creative and I like people having the piss taken out of them when they've been caught on so cheers for the post.
posted by billiebee at 11:05 AM on May 11, 2017 [5 favorites]

These are pretty creative, I LOLed.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:16 AM on May 11, 2017

Boob knees was great:

* The facial expression is itself a well-done parody of typical shots involving non-knees
* The photo of the setup itself could easily be a stand-alone drag with the right caption
* The photo might be a great dating site photo for gauging shallowness on first in-person meetup

However, I will say such nice nice knees are a marker of privilege, they have not spent near enough time crawling around on the floor trying to find dropped stuff with the rest of us. #fumblelife
posted by maxwelton at 11:25 AM on May 11, 2017 [6 favorites]

The bowwowwow challenge dropped precipitously in meme popularity indices after one too many participants collapsed after ingesting too much candy.
posted by bigbigdog at 11:35 AM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Have we reached peak "fake news"?
posted by nubs at 1:31 PM on May 11 [+] [!]
Memes aren't news, so.
posted by FirstMateKate at 11:42 AM on May 11, 2017 [6 favorites]

I am so grateful for amazing giggles like this, for the people who created them, and for bowwow for inadvertently provide me so much joy in this, the time of #45
posted by knownassociate at 12:20 PM on May 11, 2017 [4 favorites]

The great thing about it is that they're not just making fun of Bow Wow, but also poking fun at their own comparatively humble circumstances, and pointing out how inherently ridiculous the whole concept is of trying to look momentarily wealthy on Instagram since literally anybody can do it. If you think about it, it's an interesting commentary on materialism in general.
posted by Autumnheart at 1:47 PM on May 11, 2017 [17 favorites]

I think it is also a meta-commentary on the way that many if not most young people "front" and try to give false impressions on social media today. Young mr Bowwow isn't the only one pretending on instagram!
posted by Megafly at 2:07 PM on May 11, 2017

That dunk video towards the end is a thing of great beauty.
posted by NMcCoy at 3:19 PM on May 11, 2017

The dunk video is just PERFECTLY executed
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:49 PM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

I am simple and do not get the last one at all, but I love these in general.
posted by Navelgazer at 4:03 PM on May 11, 2017

These are awesome!
posted by Jubey at 5:21 PM on May 11, 2017

The last one is actually a previous time the Internet was mad at Bow Wow.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:32 PM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

The one of the lady holding up a pair of pants over a pair of shoes for "her man" lol
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 5:42 PM on May 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Ironically, had he tweeted that he was "simply" flying first class instead of private plane for environmental reasons, that wouldn't have been a (total) lie and he would be celebrated.

Or maybe I don't understand the culture well enough. But pretty sure his publicist is fired tomorrow.
posted by raider at 8:47 PM on May 11, 2017