Asylum.com Issues Megan Fox a Citation For Overexposure

How do you know when the clock is running down on your fifteen minutes? There are many signs and portents, but unfortunately, the time-honored Media Moratorium (wherein sites make a public proclamation that they will no longer write about the celeb unless they do something "newsworthy") has been only marginally successful in the past. The largest piece of evidence for the unreliability of Media Moratorium as a sign of demise is the fact that Paris Hilton continues to crop up in all of her awfulness. 

Despite the limited success of such moratoria, the latest celebrity to receive a citation for media overexposure is Transformers "actress" Megan Fox.

Asylum.com has called for an internet-wide blackout on Megan Fox on August 4. Several other male-centric sites, including Ask Men, Boobie Blog and Whip It Out Comedy will join Asylum in this Megan Fox abstinence program. BTW, I feel just sick about linking to those blogs, but if it were my job to protect you from douchebaggery on the internet I'd never have time for sleep or showers.

While this moratorium is certainly a laudable effort given the fact that Megan Fox has never said an intelligent thing in her life, I wonder if there aren't celebrities more deserving of such a blackout. I can think of a few — The Gosselins, Octomom, Michael Jackson, even Miley Cyrus. However, doesn't such a public declaration that you're not gonna talk about someone anymore only further increase their hype by highlighting just how much people are talking about them? It would seem to me that rather than signaling a descent into Hasbeenville, a media moratorium only demonstrates one has become so famous and overhyped that a proclamation is required in order to ensure just one day without said person. In this era wherein absolutely everyone is overexposed, perhaps the Publicly Declared Moratorium is the new benchmark for ultimate stardom.

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Comments

[gossiplady]

Hey has anyone read the www.anonymouscelebritycouple.com blog? Does anyone know who they are?

[BaltimoreGal]

Nice try, spammer.

[Deanna B]

I do really like that the couple who shall not be named has remained off my interwebs and E! (aside from the Soup) recently.

I vote the Hogans all get a blackout.

[Deanna B]

I was trying to think of a blackout that has worked and it was the only one I could come up with.

[JellyBean]

How about a moratorium on all celebrity babies? They do nothing newsworthy except exist & wear astonishingly expensive designer baby duds. Suri, Harlow, Shiloh, Kingston, Coco, Max & Emme, Nahla, Knox & Vivienne need to just go away. I shouldn't know these names off the top of my head. My brain is too cramped to keep up with such info, esp when there is a whole new crop of Project Runway designers names to learn.

[Sweetney]

"but if it were my job to protect you from douchebaggery on the internet I'd never have time for sleep or showers." Tru, dat.

[Liana]

I would call for a media moratorium on Sarah Palin. She claims to hate them anyway. Let's see how she feels when they stop covering her!