May 15, 2020

Deciphering the Morning News: Who are David Dobrick, Elon Musk, Grimes, Tesla, Logan Paul, and KSI?


Hot Hollywood News on my Facebook feed this morning featured this gem of incomprehensibility:

"David Dobrick Reacts to Tesla Cybertruck & KSI VS Logan Paul 2 At American Music Awards 2019."

Am I supposed to know instantly what all those words mean?

I get from the grammar that someone named David Dobrick is reacting to two things or people or something that appeared at the American Music Awards in November 2019. It must not be very hot if it took him six months to react!

The two things or people or whatever are:

1. A Tesla Cybertruck  

I know that Tesla was an inventor of some sort.  Didn't he invent that coil with electricity coming through it that appears in all the old horror movies, just before Dr. Frankenstein says "It's alive"?






 Google informs me that it is also an electronic car manufacturer, run by Elon Musk.

I've heard the phrase "Elon Musk" before, but I thought it was  a cologne.  Turns out that it's a person, a technology entrepreneur worth 3 billion dollars.

He's got a partner named Grimes.  I don't know if it's a business partner, a romantic partner,  the actor Scott Grimes, or Rick Grimes of The Walking Dead.

Scott Grimes is the redhead, seen here singing with Kevin Durand and Moloy Moley Ó Súilleabháin, neither of whom I've ever heard of, but I'm sure they're world-famous.

Back to Grimes -- a boy's name.  Is Elon gay?


Nope: according to wikipedia, Grimes is a lady musician whose albums have hit #1 on the charts in the U.S. and Canada.

Here's a picture of Elon dressed like a waiter (when you're rich, you can dress as ridiculously as you want), next to some lady who may be Grimes.

So --cybertruck. Cyberspace refers to virtural reality, so Elon must be marketing a truck that you can only drive online.

Nope -- turns out that the name is a lie.  The cybertruck is real, and it's not a truck: it's a futuristic-looking electric car.

But why would Elon Musk market it at a music award show, while David Dobrick reacted?





2. A KSI VS Logan Paul 2

I've heard of Logan Paul -- he's the internet celebrity who posts humorous videos of himself with his shirt off.  But why is he version #2, and why is he named KSI VS?

Back to Google: KSI is another youtuber that everyone in the world but me knows all about, Olajide Olatunji.

Logan is straight,and Olajide -- sorry, CSI...um...KSI -- seems to be homoophobic.  He apparently uses the term "gay" to slur his youtube opponents.

There are youtube opponents?

Nice bulge, anyway.

Apparently everybody in the world also knows that the two internet celebs were involved in a boxing match, KSI vs. Logan Paul I.

Then, at the American Music Awards, they had a repeat, KSI vs. Logan Paul II (top photo), while David Dobrick was reacting.

Nice physiques, but why would internet performers be good at boxing? Professional boxers don't do youtube videos.  And why was there a boxing match at a music awards show?

Wait -- the KSI vs. Logan Paul II was held on November 9th, 2019. The American Music Awards were held on November 24th, 2019, two weeks later.  David Dobrick couldn't have been reacting to the fight at the awards.  This headline is lying!

3. And now the million dollar question: Who the heck is David Dobrick, and why should I care how he reacted to these two events?

Maybe it's David Dobrik, born 1996, a youtube personality from Slovakia, with 15 million VLog subscribers and 6.2 billion page views.  He has also voiced Axel in The Angry Birds Movie 2, and is one of the celebrity judges on the Nickelodeon talent show America's Most Musical Family.  He's won a lot of Kids' Choice and Teen Choice Awards.

I can't tell if he's gay or not. He has videos called "David is Gay for 13 Minutes" and "Which of Us is Gay?", but they may be jokes.

He was a presenter at the American Music Awards, so I guess he would be qualified to react to the Tesla Cybertruck and CSI vs.Logan Paul II.

If they had actually appeared on the show, which they did not.

Wow.  Four people that everyone in the world knows about.  Not only knows about, but is fascinated by the minutiae of their everyday lives, and is desperate to find out how one reacts to the other three.


Everyone in the world but me, even though I spend two hours per day on Netflix, Vudu, or Amazon Prime.



But I know a lot about The Walking Dead.



.






5 comments:

  1. Funny you don't remember the boxing match. I thought that woulD be your thing? (Attractive shirtless men, I mean.)

    The Paul brothers also caused an international incident a couple years back by showing a hanged corpse in their YouTube videos, and running around Shibuya Crossing like a couple idiots.

    Elon Musk is just narcissistic and overrated.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I've heard of the Paul brothers (there's 2 of 'em, right)? Anyways, didn't know Logan Paul has a muscle body. 💪🏻 Not bad at all. He's a jerk from what I've heard, though.

    And Dobrik, I never liked him. I mean, what's there to like about vloggers anyway. I did watch the video where Nicole Scherzinger made a cameo in one of his videos, think it was last year, when The Pussycat Dolls were shooting the music video for their comeback single React. 💙💜💙💜

    ReplyDelete
  3. How does Rick manage to keep that physique during a zombie apocalypse? I've been home without the gym for two months, and I'm a walkng pile of blubber.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You're not dodging zombies?

      Me, I do some basic exercises. But it means more push-ups, more crunches, more cardio. I have some dumbbellls, but they're light dumbbells meant for cardio. I need my own place so I can get a Bowflex. (Do they still have Bowflex? The Bowflex commercials in the 90s helped me realize I was bi.

      Delete
    2. I belong to two gyms, so I had no home equipment. At first I figured that the gyms would re-open in 2 weeks, so I could make do with push-ups. Then I tried to buy some equipment, but everything was sold out. Last week I finally got some frightfully expensive dumbbells from Amazon. so I can do 4 1/2 exercises. At least there's still jogging and youtube aerotics videos.

      Delete

No offensive, insulting, racist, or homophobic comments are permitted.

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...