Just kidding. Well, if you’re slightly annoyed by this bait and switch title/blog post, imagine how thousands of people felt when they purchased the last few issues of Ok! Weekly magazine!

For three weeks in a row this glossy tabloid pulled a fast one on all of us gluttonness Robsten fans with exciting headlines in all caps that read: “ROB RISKS IT ALL FOR KRISTEN!”, and “Rob & Kristen ENGAGED”, and finally, “Twilight Exclusive: WEDDING OF THE YEAR”!

The first headline wasn’t so exaggerated, it seemed, and I even wrote an entire blog post based on the article (although I never posted it)! OK! talked about how Rob and Kris’ love is finally out in the open on the Vancouver set of Eclipse, and how for the cast, watching their love story unfold is like watching a “movie within a movie”, etc. Not soooo outlandish, right? But then they just got stupid.

Life imitating art

Now, usually I only trust the likes of US Weekly or People, but look, curiosity took over. I was interested to see how they could twist whatever is going on up there in Vancouver to lead them to drop the words ENGAGED and WEDDING to describe the budding relationship of Robsten! And guys, this is so freaking lame-o, when you open the mag and read the article; they were talking about their characters, EDWARD AND BELLA!

So here I am, reading a summary of what happens in Eclipse, and how Edward and Bella get engaged after Edward drops down on one knee and puts a ring on it. Then Ok! ponders the question; “could life imitate art in the near future?” Really? Seriously? This is garbage. I’ve already read Eclipse! I know what happens. I knew that Ok! was weak on the truth and heavy on speculation, but this is a joke of a cover article – and for three weeks in a row!

It’s so obvious that this was only a ploy to get people to purchase the mag. And I know this isn’t a new trick, but they didn’t even give us one nugget of new news. It was pure hogwash – a space filler. But of course, these issues probably flew off the shelves and became best sellers because of the cover images and headlines. Twilight fans will sink their teeth into anything they can on this stuff. I, being one of them!

Why I’m irritated

I don’t know why this irritated me so much, but it just did. I didn’t have high expectations for this magazine per se, but I just felt like the bogus headlines and total fluff of a story wasn’t even worthy of being put on a magazine stand. If it’s that easy to be a magazine columnist and have thousands of people devour your weekly articles, to hell with blogging for fun – I’m going to get a job at a goss mag and write really juicy fan fiction articles and get paid for it! Hmph!