How A Ridiculous Fake Fact About Will Smith Took The Internet By Storm

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We live in a world where one of the most famous rappers married a smart businesswoman who also has a very popular sex tape with Snopp Dogg’s cousin, and they have a baby named North West. So, to make the claim that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s middle names are “Oliver” and “Naomi,” as in Will O. Smith and Jada N. Smith (say it out loud), sounds very plausible. In fact, thousands took it as a fact when Jonathan Sun tweeted it.

In case you’re still confused, Will O. Smith and Jada N. Smith sound like the names of their famous wiener kids, Willow and Jaden. Unfortunately, it was only a joke from the MIT designer and researcher. He told BuzzFeed, “I’ve been wanting to try something like this for a while, but I just couldn’t come up with the right piece of ‘information’ that I thought would toe that fine line of ‘this is too crazy to be true’ and also ‘this is so crazy it has to be true’ while also being just obscure enough that no one would fact-check it.” No one fact checked it. Will Smith’s real middle name is “Carroll” and Jada’s is Koren.

https://twitter.com/fifthjay/status/643362957116633088

https://twitter.com/AllenYork/status/643497530102300675

Hmm, or maybe Sun knows something we don’t? You can’t spell “Willennium” without “ill,” which are the first three letters of “Illuminati.” One man’s troll job is another’s #truth.

(Via BuzzFeed)

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