Alex Christopher LaBeouf (Alex Lee) shot to fame after someone too his picture whilst he was working in target, it was put on twitter and suddenly the hashtag #alexfromtarget was trending, this lead to him being a viral superstar overnight.
News channels ran the story and the apparent question on everyones mind was “who is Alex from target?” the better question might have been “why do we care?”. How did a photo go a sixteen year old boy attract so much attention. Many parodies also started showing up on the internet and Alex was even invited on Ellen, his appearance on Ellen resulted in him getting an iPad and even MORE exposure. A clip from his appearance has over 4 million youtube view.
This all seems to be a lot, and all happened very quickly. It has now been announced that he is going on tour and though its a mystery to me what talent he will be showcasing, even he admitted on Ellen that his talent was packing bags… and dancing… badly, so is he going to somewhat combine the two… is that classed as entertainment…. are people really going to pay between $25 and $250 to see him (these are the prices listed, though there will be other viral sensations there).
He’s also announced on his twitter page that he is starting a Youtube channel, so it seems as long as there a teenage girls to fuel the Alex from target fandom, he won’t be going away any time soon…
Does he even work at target anymore?
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