I don’t I don’t even follow Shannon Sharpe like that but he’s reached my timeline because of his ‘accidental live’—so perhaps mission accomplished.
Maybe I’m just too skeptical, but in a world where people will go to any length for a moment of spotlight, it’s hard to buy these all of these accidental lives. Whether it’s a celebrity, an influencer, or just a regular person trying to get their 15 minutes, the line between what’s real and what’s staged has blurred. It’s like people don’t care if the attention is positive or negative, as long as their name is trending. They can always clean it up later with an “Oops, my bad, I got hacked.”
Let me tell you something. If I’m having sex, my phone probably isn’t even in the same room I am because—I’m having sex. I don’t even trust Alexa let alone Siri. I don’t need my phone, too busy to talk or respond to a text—I’m with the person I want to be with. I don’t need to post a status update and damn sure don’t need to take photos or videos. Whoever I’m sleeping with would be of the same mind I can guarantee you. So there would be no chance of even accidentally unlocking my phone, opening Instagram and hitting all the buttons that need to be hit before I could go live.
But hey, that’s the world we’re living in now—where going viral is the goal, even if it means pulling a stunt or claiming a slip-up. And maybe Shannon’s live really was an accident, but if it wasn’t? Well, he wouldn’t be the first or the last to pull something like that.
