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Went from thinking all celeb gossip is fake to actually trusting one source after a bad tip
I used to just roll my eyes at everything on DeuxMoi until my friend sent me a blind item about a married actor staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I spent a week trying to ID him and it turned out to be completely wrong when the real news broke on Deadline. That made me look into how DeuxMoi handles submissions and realized they don't verify anything at all. Now I only trust gossip from TMZ or a major outlet when they have actual receipts or photos. Anyone else ever wasted time on a rumor that turned out to be totally off?
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phoenix_grant16h ago
Wait, are you me? I used to think everything on DeuxMoi was made up by bored people in their basements, but then I got hooked on a blind about a certain A-lister's secret Vegas wedding. Spent like two days cross-referencing flight records and checking Instagram stories at the same time, only for it to be some random reality star nobody cares about. That specific rabbit hole actually flipped a switch in my head, because now I check submission dates on everything before I even read the full post. It's wild how much of that stuff is just someone's bad day turned into a rumor. Deadlines and TMZ feel boring by comparison but at least they're real.
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wren2309h ago
Cross-referencing flight records" is honestly wild to me, I can't even imagine doing that level of detective work. That's some real dedication. The thing that got me to stop blindly believing blinds was when someone submitted a "sightings" from a burger place I worked at, and I knew for a fact nobody famous had been there ever. Now I'm with you on checking submission dates, it's such a simple trick but it really does kill like 90% of the false stuff. TMZ might be boring but at least when they say someone was at a hotel, the photos actually show them there.
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