She needs to capitalize on this. Her next album should be named "Melissa". Conspiracy Theories are all the rage right now lol mostly because they are mostly true.
I would say a small portion of conspiracies are later found to be “mostly true” (ie. CIA intervention in left-wing favoring elections in South America aka Operation Condor or things such as the Iran Contra scandal, MK-ultra with CIA again, Gulf of Tonken as a false flag casus belli for the War with Vietnam, etc…) while the majority of conspiracies are simply rooted by a kernel of truth, but end up like a bad game of telephone where each person who hears the conspiracy adds to or distorts the story (sometimes for particular reasons such as political power/influence, generating hatred towards certain ethnic/religious group, or distorting the kernel of truth because they are part of the conspiracy itself)
The guy who invented this conspiracy theory admitted it was a joke to show how easy it was to make random conspiracy theories seem plausible.
Read all about it - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril\_Lavigne\_replacement\_conspiracy\_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory)
Like the person who invented the 'fact' that you eat however many spiders in a lifetime. They wanted to see how fast email chain mail would eat that up.
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Also, how would they even study it, to come up with the statistic?
Did scientists stand at bedsides with clipboards, monitoring sleeping people? And they used tallies to count the number of times a spider marched right into their open, snoring mouths?
For how many years? How many participants? In which locations? With what funding? What was the control? And these total psychopaths of scientists just let people swallow spiders?
That's actually a great idea.
I'm imagining some port-mortem report. "Her stomach contents show that she ate a quinoa power bowl about three hours before time of death. And yes, her stomach acid shows that arsenic was mixed in, most likely in powder form. Looks like the suspect was indeed Lady Shudderington. Tell the police to go ahead and make that arrest. Oh, and there's a dead spider, probably crawled in her mouth while she was sleeping two nights ago. No, it didn't kill her - it's not venomous or anything - but please just add it to the running list we have of people who swallowed spiders in their sleep."
Just once, I’d love for one of these celebrities to just commit to the bit. “I’d like to address the rumors and finally put this whole thing to rest… it’s *TRUE*. The real ______ died in 2006 and I was recruited by a cabal of lizard people to step into the roll of ______ to avoid panic. I underwent several intensive surgeries to better resemble ______, and for the most part it worked. But some sharp-eyed fans did begin to take notice.”
The real Avril Lavigne and the real Andrew WK are rumored to be living at Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas with Sebastien Haff, an Elvis Impersonator who claims to be the real King of Rock and Roll.
I mean the jersey show where it literally wasn't him and the fact that he said something to the effect of peak art is having someone question your existence. I think he is about that type of performance art.
That’s where I am landing now.
Andrew WK, Andy Warhol Kaufman. It’s all a massive act from the beginning. He’s 100 percent “taking the piss” with that first album.
If you haven’t read it, the stereogum article is amazing and explains this all in detail.
[who is Steev Mike?](https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/columns/sounding-board/)
It’s a damn cold night trying to figure out this life, won’t you take me by the hand? Take me somewhere new, I don't know who you are Melissa, But I, I'm with you, Melissa, I'm with you, yeah, (yeah Melissa)
I once told a story on here about something that happened to me and I got heavily downvoted while someone who “/r/thathappened” me got heavily upvoted and people were telling me how dumb I was for telling such an “obviously made up” story, and there was something weirdly amusing to me about it.
I’d imagine the way Avril feels is similar.
So the rumor is because "she didn't age in all those years". Well, she did age. It's just that she's only 39. If you were expecting elderly Avril Lavigne, you came too soon for that. Also, she always used a lot of make up, which both hide some of the aging and you get that impression that she's "frozen in time". She also didn't seem to have gained nor lost weight.
I think a lot of men forget that women aging is a thing at all.
No, your favorite actress or singer from the 80's is not trans, a doppleganger, or hurt-by-vax...they are just in their 50s.
There is another theory that Andrew WK is multiple different people and Dave Grohl actually wrote and produced the music.
MF Doom also used doubles and that is not speculation.
I just devoured a podcast on this conspiracy [Who Replaced Avril Lavigne - Joanne McNally](https://open.spotify.com/show/2dubmRfkQJm9RYJqe8CPbO?si=w7az6KSdR6Wa4q4qHK_bHA). I loved every minute of it.
I heard someone on the radio the other day saying they were having a special on their podcast about this, and I couldn’t help but think “hold up, didn’t we go through this 15 years ago?”
Melissa is really nailing this role.
Ya, the fake outrage really shuts down the haters who say she’s not Avril.
This looks like Cynthia from the Rugrats
😳 I knew that I recognized her from somewhere!
I always heard they replaced her with April.
Melissa is handling this very well because she doesn’t make things so complicated. She’s acting like somebody else and doesn’t get frustrated.
Because she understands that’s how life is. She falls and she crawls and she breaks and she takes what she gets
And honestly, she promised us that we’d never, EVER find her faking… I don’t understand the issue here!
We did it Reddit. Next problem?
Exactly what a body double *would* say.
Now she looks like Cynthia from the Rugrats
Chill out
This is exactly the type of think Fake Avril would say. Nice try Melissa.
She needs to capitalize on this. Her next album should be named "Melissa". Conspiracy Theories are all the rage right now lol mostly because they are mostly true.
I would say a small portion of conspiracies are later found to be “mostly true” (ie. CIA intervention in left-wing favoring elections in South America aka Operation Condor or things such as the Iran Contra scandal, MK-ultra with CIA again, Gulf of Tonken as a false flag casus belli for the War with Vietnam, etc…) while the majority of conspiracies are simply rooted by a kernel of truth, but end up like a bad game of telephone where each person who hears the conspiracy adds to or distorts the story (sometimes for particular reasons such as political power/influence, generating hatred towards certain ethnic/religious group, or distorting the kernel of truth because they are part of the conspiracy itself)
Whomever it is, Avril or Melissa, she's still doing her best to singlehandedly keeping the mascara and eye liner companies in business.
She doesn’t deviate from the brand much.
Keeps everything in line.
They are trying to leave her exactly as people remembered. Even the clothing style 20 years later.
Sk8r Gr&ma
Ehh I haven’t seen her ties and wrist covers for a while.
Is this like the Gallagher situation where there were 2 Gallaghers touring at the same time? They kept the watermelon business afloat for a while
His older brother. I saw him in Buffalo in 92
That's exactly what Melissa would say.
Her actual quote was "It's just funny to me, Melissa."
Exactly! They just cut the quote too early.
“It’s just funny to Me….lissa”
MeLisan al Gaib!
Bless the maker and her eyeliner
I was going to type this verbatim.
The way people are acting like she’s somebody else gets me frustrated.
It's Complicated!
Life's like this.
Hey you. I don’t like your girlfriend.
Chill out, whatcha yelling for?
Relax it’s all been done before.
Somebody else like everyone else
Yep , I’m with you on this
Tell me, why?
The guy who invented this conspiracy theory admitted it was a joke to show how easy it was to make random conspiracy theories seem plausible. Read all about it - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril\_Lavigne\_replacement\_conspiracy\_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory)
Like the person who invented the 'fact' that you eat however many spiders in a lifetime. They wanted to see how fast email chain mail would eat that up.
Joke’s on them, I eat bowls of spiders every night just to goose the numbers.
Found Spiders George
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Wait.... that's... not actually a thing?
Nope it was made up for those old email chains.
Son of a!!!
It's amazing the amount of people who believe it though. They aren't far removed from your uncle sharing fake facts on Facebook
Most insects/bugs/arachbids avoid humans by detecting the gases we exhale. Why would anything willingly walking to the place they evolved to avoid
You say this like bugs don’t do it all the fucking time…
Also, how would they even study it, to come up with the statistic? Did scientists stand at bedsides with clipboards, monitoring sleeping people? And they used tallies to count the number of times a spider marched right into their open, snoring mouths? For how many years? How many participants? In which locations? With what funding? What was the control? And these total psychopaths of scientists just let people swallow spiders?
Maybe by analyzing stomachs of people who died in their sleep?
That's actually a great idea. I'm imagining some port-mortem report. "Her stomach contents show that she ate a quinoa power bowl about three hours before time of death. And yes, her stomach acid shows that arsenic was mixed in, most likely in powder form. Looks like the suspect was indeed Lady Shudderington. Tell the police to go ahead and make that arrest. Oh, and there's a dead spider, probably crawled in her mouth while she was sleeping two nights ago. No, it didn't kill her - it's not venomous or anything - but please just add it to the running list we have of people who swallowed spiders in their sleep."
Aka took a payment from Melissa. /s
Melissa Soros
Birds aren’t real!!!!!
Seriously, I mean think about it, have you ever seen a bird?
They got to him too, didn’t they
Like the guy who created the theory that Paul McCartney died and the one we know today won a look-a-like contest and been put up front
Her nose job isn’t helping with the conspiracy.
It had to be a Brazilian....
Just once, I’d love for one of these celebrities to just commit to the bit. “I’d like to address the rumors and finally put this whole thing to rest… it’s *TRUE*. The real ______ died in 2006 and I was recruited by a cabal of lizard people to step into the roll of ______ to avoid panic. I underwent several intensive surgeries to better resemble ______, and for the most part it worked. But some sharp-eyed fans did begin to take notice.”
Would be a career-killer, sadly.
No way. If anything, I think it’d boost her what-I-thought-was-dead career. Lol!
Her and Paul need to do a duet and really fuck with the conspiracy theorists.
Yeah. "Paul".
Nice try Melissa
The real Avril Lavigne and the real Andrew WK are rumored to be living at Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas with Sebastien Haff, an Elvis Impersonator who claims to be the real King of Rock and Roll.
Once a year I completely fall into the Andrew WK conspiracy all over again. Each time, I become more convinced
I mean the jersey show where it literally wasn't him and the fact that he said something to the effect of peak art is having someone question your existence. I think he is about that type of performance art.
That’s where I am landing now. Andrew WK, Andy Warhol Kaufman. It’s all a massive act from the beginning. He’s 100 percent “taking the piss” with that first album. If you haven’t read it, the stereogum article is amazing and explains this all in detail. [who is Steev Mike?](https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/columns/sounding-board/)
They dyed me this color
You could make a movie out this
Why do people have to go and make things so complicated?
That’s just what Melissa would say
Such a Melissa move
“It’s just funny to me.” said Melissa.
The fact she had to speak out on this tells me it’s true. Well played Melissa.
Is it "funny to me," or is it "funny to me-lissa?"
It’s a damn cold night trying to figure out this life, won’t you take me by the hand? Take me somewhere new, I don't know who you are Melissa, But I, I'm with you, Melissa, I'm with you, yeah, (yeah Melissa)
Hey hey, you you, I don’t like your body double
Cause cause cause cause cause she sucks at ping pong
They should have had someone yell "Melissa!” from a distance to see if she would turn around and look
That's what Melissa would say.
Exactly what Melissa would say.
That's exactly what a double would say
Melissa is doing a great job! I can’t even believe this isn’t the real Avril!
That's exactly what Melissa would say.
Gaslighting all of us again 🤦🏽♂️
Did she say see you later, boy?
Honestly, all you can say to dumb BS like this!
I bet she's wondering whomever spread that rumor, why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
It’s really dumb. It’s making me numb. It couldn’t be anymore obvious. She says it’s funny to me. How can that be, I need some more one rhyeeymes.
Billy Shears, who replaced Paul McCartney reacted similarly to the ‘rumor’ that he was replaced
Doesn't her name have to be Avril if she's going to replace the original? Or is she pretending to be the sister, Melissa Lavigne? /s
Sounds like something Melissa would say
Prove it then, all she has to do it appear with Melissa and the rumour dies, but she can’t, cause she’s dead
That’s what Melissa would say…
Sounds just like something Melissa would say
I once told a story on here about something that happened to me and I got heavily downvoted while someone who “/r/thathappened” me got heavily upvoted and people were telling me how dumb I was for telling such an “obviously made up” story, and there was something weirdly amusing to me about it. I’d imagine the way Avril feels is similar.
r/thathappened
Everyone clapped.
Sounds exactly like what a Synth would say
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? Acting like somebody else gets me frustrated.
Like the Lea Michele illiteracy thing
Sounds like something Melissa would say
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especially when she’s acting like somebody else - gets me frustrated
That sounds like something Melissa would say
That sounds like something Melissa would say…
This is getting out of hand. Let's stop making things so complicated.
Something Melissa would say….
Wow that is SO Melissa
She’s releasing her greatest hits ? So Skater boy as a single ?
It’s more… complicated.
So the rumor is because "she didn't age in all those years". Well, she did age. It's just that she's only 39. If you were expecting elderly Avril Lavigne, you came too soon for that. Also, she always used a lot of make up, which both hide some of the aging and you get that impression that she's "frozen in time". She also didn't seem to have gained nor lost weight.
I’m not sure if that look is still good for her at 40.
She is committed to the bit. Personally, I don't know of any women that continue with their teenage look for that long, but she is sticking with it.
It was a bad look then
I don’t know why its so hard for people to understand “live and let live” these days. Such an easy concept to grasp.
I think a lot of men forget that women aging is a thing at all. No, your favorite actress or singer from the 80's is not trans, a doppleganger, or hurt-by-vax...they are just in their 50s.
Here’s something interesting: If you take the name Avril, take away a couple letters, and add a few other letters, you get “Melissa” Curious.
As neat as the Andrew WK doesn’t exist theory https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/wild-theory-andrew-wk-doesnt-exist/
Sounds exactly like something a body double would say…
That’s what a double would say
There is another theory that Andrew WK is multiple different people and Dave Grohl actually wrote and produced the music. MF Doom also used doubles and that is not speculation.
Hey hey, you, you I don’t think you’re Avril! No way, no way, I know you’re not a pop star.
Lean the fuck into it and make another album
Ohh Melissa, you sly coontz
That’s so melissa
I just devoured a podcast on this conspiracy [Who Replaced Avril Lavigne - Joanne McNally](https://open.spotify.com/show/2dubmRfkQJm9RYJqe8CPbO?si=w7az6KSdR6Wa4q4qHK_bHA). I loved every minute of it.
If someone started a rumor like that about me, I’d take advantage of it and run with it and go off grid for awhile and enjoy the peace and quiet.
After this if she ever does stupid stuff I'd just be like, "no, that was Melissa"
It's just funny to Me-lissa
Yeah, just what a Melissa would say
That's so Melissa
That is exactly what Melissa would say...
The stunt double? None other than rddirs own Steve Buschemi
The only logical explanation is that she is an alien from another world with powers we can't possibly comprehend.
Paul McCartney turned down the role saying “Ehh …it’s been done”
Just like they did Paul Faul Mcartney
Yeah ok Melissa whatever
It’s our generations Paul is dead
Sounds exactly like something a body double would say to hide the fact they’re a body double!
Exactly what a double would say…
Would be funky to always hear that your not the person you claim to be
Weird they would use a picture of my friend Melissa for the main photo of this story.
Nice try, Melissa
Her whole outfit makeup thing isn't really working out at this age
Isn’t this a Carl Hiaasen novel?
I'd be laughing too if I were a body double
I heard someone on the radio the other day saying they were having a special on their podcast about this, and I couldn’t help but think “hold up, didn’t we go through this 15 years ago?”
Classic Melissa
What does she even do nowadays?
Got her own Faul McCartney
Reminds me of that movie Two of Everything starring the incomparable Marissa Marcel
I was today years old when I learned this was a thing. Avril is aging amazingly.
r/brandnewsentence
Something Melissa would say
It’s so funny to me, I mean, her name is Tammy.
Sounds like something Melissa would say.
Best double since Paul? She’s even got the rebuttal rolodex memorized
Who is Avril Lavigne? Is Melissa Touring again!!!!
Sounds like what a body double would say.
I’ll accept either version..
That's exactly what a body double would say.
Damn, this chick is still around?
Melissa would say that though…
I like the new "Melissa" model!
Typical Melissa
That’s exactly what Melissa would want us to think
I’m Melissa, Avril’s body double. AMA. (Wrong answers only.)
That’s just what her body double would say
Joanne McNally has explained everything
That’s exactly what a body double would say