Rihanna Eclipses Justin Bieber, Becomes YouTube’s Most Viewed Artist
June 18th, 2013
Rihanna reached another milestone in her already illustrious career, passing Justin Bieber as the most viewed artist on YouTube this morning. Rihanna’s official VEVO channel has 77 videos that have racked up 3.784 billion views—that’s about two million more than Bieber and his 79 videos have. This is mainly due to the size and depth of Rihanna’s subscription base: she has 8.73 million subscribers compared to Bieber’s 4.9 million.
In addition, Rihanna has also topped Bieber in terms of Facebook “likes,” amassing 72.3 million to his 54.3 million. Bieber may have shut the game down due in terms of Twitter followers, but Rihanna’s latest accomplishment is nothing to sneer at.
RSS 2.0Pitbull And Christina Aguilera @ The Voice USA Finals
June 18th, 2013
RSS 2.0Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown Named Worst Celebrity Role Models
June 18th, 2013
Miley Cyrus is NOT a good role model, according to a new poll.
CouponCodes4u.com surveyed 2,407 parents from across the country — all of which had at least one child over the age of 8 — and discovered that 58 percent admit that they believe celebrities should not be used as examples of positive role models for their children.
Those same parents then voted on which famous figures were the worst role models — and here’s what they came up with:
1. Miley Cyrus (68%)
Also making the list: Amanda Bynes, Farrah Abraham, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Kourtney Kardashian, Heidi Montag and Taylor Momsen.
When asked why they had chosen the female celebrities in question, the majority of parents cited the celebrity’s inability to make positive life choices, while others said the star had “no actual talent” or felt they were being “oversexualized” in the media.
For the men:
1. Chris Brown (71%)
RSS 2.0Watermelon Oreos: The Latest Twist on an Iconic Cookie
June 18th, 2013
Watermelon in cookie form. The perfect summer food?
Nabisco hopes Oreo purists and non-fans alike will be taking a bag of the new, limited edition fruit-flavored cookies to their next picnic.
The Watermelon Oreos, available only at Target (TGT) for $3 a package, feature a bright pink and green creme filling between two vanilla-flavored cookies; the creme bears a strong resemblance to Play-Doh. Two cookies contain 150 calories, 7 grams of fat and 21 grams of carbohydrates.
Food bloggers had plenty to say about the new summer flavor. JunkFoodGuy wrote that he was expecting an “awful fake watermelon smell to come wafting out” but there was none. “As soon as I bit into one of these Limited Edition Watermelon Golden Oreos, I got an immediate light watermelon taste. I’ll just say it right off the bat…I liked these. A LOT.”
FoodJunk.com’s conclusion: “The vanilla cookies take up most of the space on the flavor profile pie chart. Seventy-five percent or so. But it’s the subtlety of the cream that makes the cookie work as a whole. Too much watermelon, and the effort would be a mess.”
“We think that Watermelon is a fun summer creme flavor that goes great with our Golden Oreo cookie,” a spokeswoman for Mondelez Global (MDLZ) said in an email. (Mondelez owns Nabisco, which makes Oreos, in addition to other snack foods including Triscuit, Wheat Thins, Chips Ahoy and Ritz. It was formerly Kraft Foods Inc. and is a spinoff of Kraft Food Groups, Inc.)
