

He was homeschooled and joined the 2015 DigiTour, a tour for social media stars, mainly Vine stars at the time. Alex LaBeouf, who went by Alex Lee as a stage name, eventually dropped out of high school because he had missed so many days to fly to Los Angeles for appearances on talk shows. But the woman who made the tweet (whose Twitter account is now suspended) said she had never heard of the marketing company, and that she just randomly found the photo on Tumblr and tweeted it out, and it seems that the marketing company was trying to claim stolen viral valor.īut the ending wasn’t so great for the guy at the center of it. An internet marketing company stepped forward, claiming that it had gotten the original girl to tweet the photo of Alex as a viral marketing stunt, and seeded the meme with inorganic retweets and promotion. There was some legitimate confusion over how and why Alex’s photo blew up. The tweet went viral, and people fell in love with this mysterious Alex from Target, creating memes and tributes in his image, leading anyone over the age of 23 to wonder: What the fuck is happening here? Her tweet was simply, “YOOOOOOOO,” signaling that, well, this teen boy was cute. In November 2014, a young woman tweeted a photo of a teenage checkout clerk at Target with Alex on the nametag.

Dodson went on to a strange post-virality career, with a reality show that never got off the ground, celebrity boxing matches, controversial statements about being gay, and a Trump endorsement.

At the time, some people pointed out that turning a video of poor black man expressing anguish over the attempted sexual assault of his sister was problematic. “Bed Intruder Song” captured two powerful vectors that would come to define the rest of the decade: a normal person being propelled to some sort of viral fame, and a critical backlash over the exploitative race, gender, and class dynamics.

Fans of characters like Black Adam and entities like The Spectre often wonder just who is the most powerful superhero in DC.In July 2010, Antoine Dodson appeared on the local news in Alabama after a home invader attempted to assault his sister, saying: “He’s climbin’ in your windows, he’s snatchin’ your people up… So y’all need to hide your kids, hide your wife.” The news clip went viral, and a few days later, Dodson’s words were remixed into the auto-tuned “Bed Intruder Song,” which made it onto the Billboard 100 charts and become the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010. Characters like Superman sit high above heroes like Hourman, but both are known for their incredible strength. However, there are many levels of super-strength that separate the heroes. Updated on by Scoot Allan: The DC Universe is filled with a number of different power sets, although one of the most common shared abilities is super-strength. Whether their strength comes from innate traits of their biology, magical blessings, or powerful artificial enhancements, DC's strongest heroes are capable of feats a normal person can only dream of. Whether it’s Superman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, or any number of super-powered aliens and cosmic gods, DC has a tremendous supply of the most powerful superheroes in existence. RELATED: 15 Smartest Heroes In The DC Universe, Ranked No matter what threats arise on earth or elsewhere, a hero with amazing powers and super strength always swoops in and makes the impossible a reality. DC Comics has its fair share of powerhouse superheroes able to lift entire buildings out of the ground and catch planes falling from the sky.
