An art of fanning controversy into fame


IT is not often that I go into Facebook. When I decided to scroll through my news feed recently, a spark of outrage towards a particular Facebook user caught my attention.

Apparently the affair stemmed from controversial videos of a middle-school student that usually involved him performing obscene dances, singing in a deliberately awful manner or criticizing pop idols in a pompous fashion.

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