When Michael Jackson passed, the internet almost shut down with texts and search engines. I believe Google was temporarily disabled due to exhaustion. It was nuts. Add to it, people were wanting to know about his life, and it got personal a lot.

When Prince died, there were some crazy people typing about him (I don't know why), and saying unkind things about his ex-wife Mayte. In fact, when Mayte released her book about her life with Prince, people got crazy and called her a liar (not true, imo).

One guy I know (he's from America), said Prince's death didn't hit him at all, and he only knew one Prince song and didn't even know the name of it. So I guess reactions to Prince's death was mixed - some were grieving, others were indifferent.

Your thoughts?

So is this going to be another stupid MJ VS Prince comparison? :eyeroll:

ThatWhiteDude said:

Take your BS over to MJ site, if one exists........don't bring it here!

SoftSkarlettLovisa said:

When Michael Jackson passed, the internet almost shut down with texts and search engines. I believe Google was temporarily disabled due to exhaustion. It was nuts. Add to it, people were wanting to know about his life, and it got personal a lot.

When Prince died, there were some crazy people typing about him (I don't know why), and saying unkind things about his ex-wife Mayte. In fact, when Mayte released her book about her life with Prince, people got crazy and called her a liar (not true, imo).

One guy I know (he's from America), said Prince's death didn't hit him at all, and he only knew one Prince song and didn't even know the name of it. So I guess reactions to Prince's death was mixed - some were grieving, others were indifferent.

Your thoughts?

That's all you got? "Some crazy people typing about him?" You weren't paying attention then...

TheBigBang said:

SoftSkarlettLovisa said:

When Michael Jackson passed, the internet almost shut down with texts and search engines. I believe Google was temporarily disabled due to exhaustion. It was nuts. Add to it, people were wanting to know about his life, and it got personal a lot.

When Prince died, there were some crazy people typing about him (I don't know why), and saying unkind things about his ex-wife Mayte. In fact, when Mayte released her book about her life with Prince, people got crazy and called her a liar (not true, imo).

One guy I know (he's from America), said Prince's death didn't hit him at all, and he only knew one Prince song and didn't even know the name of it. So I guess reactions to Prince's death was mixed - some were grieving, others were indifferent.

Your thoughts?

That's all you got? "Some crazy people typing about him?" You weren't paying attention then...

Apparently not, or otherwise he/she would have seen the countless tributes and talks about Prince online, TV, etc....fan gatherings at Paisley Park and elsewhere with folks singing Purple Rain, not to mention buildings lit up in purple all over the world, etc etc etc! Guess he missed it!

So much wrong...can't even respond to this.

Ridiculously stupid thread. The internet did not nearly break when MJ dioed, if anything i remember much more negativity about MJs death than positivity and people making jokes about Farrah Fawcetts wish for all the kids to be safe and so MJ died, and the Tabloids in the Uk had headlines like "Wacko jacko, Heart Attacko".

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The same did not happen with Prince, mostly polite respect, as Prince had really extricated himself from the public eye in the mid 1990s. Also is this some litmus test of popularity, because I don't recall the internet crashing when David Bowie, George Michael, Chuck Berry, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher or any other major star dying in the past few years.

Seahorsie said:

So much wrong...can't even respond to this.

^ ^ ^ What she said.

do the MJ sites go on about prince ???

When Prince went, the Eiffel Tower went purple, and Obama secretly put up framed Prince photos within the White House.

Seemed like many, many, celebrities, artists, and other types of famous people reacted in a much more genuine and emotional way.

Even the "Agent Orange" tweeted.

nonsense and tomfoolery

luvsexy4all said:

do the MJ sites go on about prince ???

My MJForum has a page thread to him on its 19th page (15 replies a page) and several pop up threads.

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So does MJJC community, but they have many fans who are very critical of him and they have a gang of 4 who jump down my throat whenever I mention him. Some MJ fans are really cool and love Prince, most acknowledge him, but a few are real serial haters and are quick to lambast prince fans for hating MJ.

stephaniebrown said:

I know when Elvis Presley died, I couldn’t use the internet for YEARS...

stephaniebrown said:

I know when Elvis Presley died, I couldn’t use the internet for YEARS...

wasnt the internet crazy BEFORE prince died?

^^True

luvsexy4all said:

wasnt the internet crazy BEFORE prince died?

Right? Was no one here now on alt.music.prince 20 years ago???? lol

TrivialPursuit said:

luvsexy4all said:

wasnt the internet crazy BEFORE prince died?

Right? Was no one here now on alt.music.prince 20 years ago???? lol

Purplegarden said:

Ridiculously stupid thread. The internet did not nearly break when MJ dioed, if anything i remember much more negativity about MJs death than positivity and people making jokes about Farrah Fawcetts wish for all the kids to be safe and so MJ died, and the Tabloids in the Uk had headlines like "Wacko jacko, Heart Attacko".

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The same did not happen with Prince, mostly polite respect, as Prince had really extricated himself from the public eye in the mid 1990s. Also is this some litmus test of popularity, because I don't recall the internet crashing when David Bowie, George Michael, Chuck Berry, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher or any other major star dying in the past few years.

The internet DID break when MJ died. He's arguably the most famous man of the last century, he's pretty much known everywhere you go for his artistry. Don't let your own fandom neglect the super icon that was MJ. Prince was not nearly as famous as MJ, so of course the comparison is quite silly IMO. Prince very much like David Bowie were given their respects, but they did not have the same impact online as did MJ and that's just facts. You can love all of their music and still remain sane ya know... I don't even want to think what would have happened if MJ had passed away lets say 2015... I love MJ, Prince & Bowie and don't see no reason why they should be compared at all.. They were all great with different stories.

1. The first reports that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest, then that he had died, came from TMZ.com, a Los Angeles-based celebrity news website. TMZ published: "Michael Jackson passed away today at the age of 50." The Los Angeles Times website confirmed the report at 2:51 pm PDT. The news spread quickly online, causing websites to slow down and crash from user overload.

2. Google initially believed that the input from millions of people searching for "Michael Jackson" meant that the search engine was under attack. Twitter reported a crash, as did Wikipedia at 3:15 pm.

3. The Wikimedia Foundation reported nearly a million visitors to Jackson’s biography within one hour, probably the most visitors in a one-hour period to any article in Wikipedia’s history.

4. AOL Instant Messenger went down for 40 minutes. AOL called it a "seminal moment in Internet history", adding, "We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.

5. Around 15% of Twitter posts–or 5,000 tweets per minute–reportedly mentioned Jackson after the news broke, compared to the 5% recalled as having mentioned the Iranian elections or the flu pandemic that had made headlines earlier in the year.

6. Overall, web traffic ranged from 11% to at least 20% higher than normal.

7. The British soap opera EastEnders added a last-minute scene, in which one character discussed the news with another, to the June 26 episode.

8. During the same period, the three major U.S. networks’ evening newscasts–ABC’s World News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News–devoted 34 percent of their broadcast time to him.

9. According to an analysis released by the Global Language Monitor, "72 hours after his death, Jackson jumped to the No. 9 spot for the global print and electronic media. For Internet, blogs and social media, Jackson jumped to the No. 2, only trailing the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States.

10. Michael Okwu of NBC News outside UCLA Medical CenterStatistics published by the Pew Research Center suggested that two out of three Americans believed the coverage of Jackson’s death was excessive, while 3% felt it was insufficient.

Its only been two years duh. As if the original poster doesnt really know.

Why are all tbese stupid rhetorical questions allowed as tools to troll ?