Wednesday, June 25, 2014
News Man
Oh no!!! Twitter erupted late on
June 24 as thousands of users began mourning and tweeting the hashtag “#RIPSouljaBoy.” So what’s going on here? Did the young rapper tragically pass away, or is he just the latest victim of the ever popular death hoax trend?
Twitter once again took a morbid turn on June 24, as rumors of 23-year-old rapper Soulja Boy ‘s death began to take the social media site by storm. But as is the case whenever big “news” like this blows up on Twitter, the question remained whether the tweets were tragically true or just made up out of thin air.
Thousands of people tweeted mournful messages after hearing that Soulja Boy had died. The hashtag “#RIPSouljaBoy” even began trending worldwide.