{"id":176,"date":"2014-11-12T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-11-12T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:12:13","slug":"internet-creates-another-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/internet-creates-another-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet creates another star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/alex-from-target-ellen11.png\" alt=\"._alex-from-target-ellen1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-209 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk.jpeg\" alt=\"B1ossSHCEAEkoXk\" width=\"599\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk.jpeg 599w, http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk-300x202.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk-90x60.jpeg 90w, http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk-180x120.jpeg 180w, http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk-95x64.jpeg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By HaeMee Lee Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n<p>Chances are you\u2019ve already heard of Alex from Target. Twitter feeds and news reports are thoroughly covering the topic of this mysterious boy known as Alex from Target. No, this is not Target\u2019s attempt at a marketing strategy, though it could be one.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Laboeuf is a 16-year-old Target employee in Texas who became an Internet celebrity within a day, all because a stranger, 15-year-old Brooklyn Reiff, tweeted a picture of him bagging groceries. Has he stolen the hearts of thousands of girls because of his resemblance to Justin Bieber?<\/p>\n<p>How did an average teenage boy gain over half a million Twitter followers and become a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres show? Did we ever realize how powerful the Internet could be?<\/p>\n<p>The Internet has produced instant celebrities like Laboeuf before through viral videos, however, this is a first through Twitter. Once in a while, Youtube will have \u201cone-hit wonders,\u201d or people who gain ephemeral fame from millions of views on one and only one video. Laboeuf\u2019s fame will last how long?<\/p>\n<p>Social media is filled with Alex from Target craze, but please, let\u2019s stop obsessing over a teenager who can bag groceries at Target and return to obsessing over Kim Kardashian or another celebrity whose fame is questionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HaeMee Lee Editor-in-Chief Chances are you\u2019ve already heard of Alex from Target. Twitter feeds and news reports are thoroughly covering the topic of this mysterious boy known as Alex from Target. No, this is not Target\u2019s attempt at a marketing strategy, though it could be one. Alex Laboeuf is a 16-year-old Target employee in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[119,122,120,20,121,26,28],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-alex","tag-celebrity","tag-from","tag-internet","tag-target","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B1ossSHCEAEkoXk.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}