***ADVISORY: NessiBoo does not condone fake news.***
During my lecture on Monday, we did a recap on the Calabasas helicopter crash, the impeachment trial, and the coronavirus outbreak as well as creating fake news. Before you savages drop to conclusions, I did not create fake news about Kobe Bryant, say that Trump was assassinated, or say that there is a life-saving vaccine relating to the coronavirus. I had to sit this one out and think long and hard about it until I came up with the most evil thing possible. To be honest, I didn't think I was capable of coming up with something so evil. I hope you're ready for my wicked mind game.
I walked around campus with my AirPods in my ears and low-key dancing to the music I was listening to. I found a fellow classmate and approached her like how I do when I see someone that I don't necessarily dislike. After we said hi to each other, I asked her the biggest question that would crush her heart:
"Did you hear that Rihanna dropped her new album?"
Before you vultures crucify me for doing something so despicable, you have to give me credit for coming up with something like this. It kind of tells you a lot about my evil mind. I even came up with the perfect album title, which made my fake news even more believable; Rogue.
After my classmate called me an evil witch for doing this, I tested my unethical skills on six other people who are all die-hard Rihanna fans. I gave them the news and title, let them believe it for five minutes, and then I confessed my scheme. I went into class and tried it on five other classmates.
As a journalism major, I don't agree with fake news and honestly felt like a piranha from TMZ. It felt dirty and my inner ethics and morals concious was sitting on my shoulder screaming my ear off. When hearing the news, please make sure you fact check because we are unfortunately in a time period where social media is very active and anything is believable at this point. If you are a Rihanna fan, I apologize for doing something so vile. Please don't unsubscribe because this is the only and final time I would do something like this on my site. If this miraculously gets to Rihanna herself, I am a huge fan and felt like trash when I did this.