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… insane. The reasonably new Facebook fan pages have taken off a bit over the past few months, but the popularity of certain individuals on there just beggars belief.
Check this motley crew out. (Fan numbers were all correct at the time of writing, but naturally are subject to change.)
1. Chris Moyles
Chris Moyles! Chris “bloody” Moyles. The man’s popularity is hard to fathom at the best of times, but popular radio is quite an unusual beast. But how the heck did that translate to Internet fandom? Okay, Facebook isn’t exactly Reddit, but you think there would be some kind of intellectual filter in place.
Fans: 347,974
2. The Stig
Top Gear is one of the most popular television shows in the world, with a global audience estimated by the BBC as some quarter of a billion people. Which translates to a lot of hits. The Stig has a huge fan-base that borders almost on a cult, but #2 on Facebook? Really?
Fans: 233,112
3. Lee Evans
I’ve never really understood Lee Evan’s popularity. I mean, it’s all one sketch, isn’t it? The same thing over and over again? Clearly not, as Facebook loves him.
Fans: 138,826
4. Jabbawockeez
Who!? An “all-male dance crew from San Diego”, by all account, who became popular after appearing on America’s Got Talent. Enough said. They look a bit like a Halloween-tribute band; the Myers Five.
Fans: 126,243
5. Kat Von D
Von D is hot, but she’s also the master of self-promotion. Her MySpace page has over one million friends, and she uses all these tools to heavily promote her tattoo business. Which is fair enough.
Except Von D also recently set the world record for ‘Most Tattoos In 24 Hours’ - at 400. Four hundred. I bet 398 people went home pissed off that day.
Fans: 124,305
6. Peter Kay
Over one-hundred and twenty thousand people have raised Kay to the lofty heights of #6 celebrity on Facebook. How? Only about forty thousand people in Blackpool are above the age of 60.
Fans: 120,276
Achmed is the creation of US ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. Yeah - I’ve never heard of him either. But he’s a YouTube phenom, with this video having some 44 million views. How come he isn’t #1 on Facebook, then? Because it isn’t funny.
Fans: 89,248
8. Bill Bailey
Yes, somehow, Bill Bailey is less popular than the modern-day ‘edgy’ take on Roger De Courcey and Nookie Bear.
Fans: 88,504
9. Jeff Dunham
Again! How the hell has this been allowed to happen? Technically Dunham’s combined fandom on here puts him at #3. I thought ventriloquists had been hideously embarrassing for decades now?
Fans: 87,280
10. Björn Gustafsson
Björn Gustafsson is a Swedish comedian. He became popular on YouTube after making a World of Warcraft joke. This pretty much says everything you need to know.
Fans: 70,788.
How did this happen, Facebook - how?
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