John Cena Did NOT Die in a Car Accident
According to various posts that have circulated on and off for several years, popular wrestling starlet John Cena has been killed in a car accident.
The car accident death rumours, which mourn the loss of the WWE icon, tend to reappear regularly on social media.
The claims in the posts are untrue. John Cena has not been killed in a car accident.
The original version of the fake death story was derived from a bogus news report published via FakeAWish.com back in 2015. The report noted:
THIS STORY IS STILL DEVELOPING…
(Local Team News 9) John Cena died in a single vehicle crash on Route eighty inbetween Morristown and Roswell. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics responding to the vehicle accident and was identified by photo ID found on his assets. Alcohol and drugs do not emerge to have been a factor in this accident '
The ‘news` story included the following disclaimer in puny print at the bottom of the page:
FAKE… THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE! this is an entertainment website, and this is a totally fake article based on zero truth and is a finish work of fiction for entertainment purposes! this story was dynamically generated using a generic ‘template` and is not factual. Any reference to specific individuals has been 100% fabricated by web site visitors who have created fake stories by coming in a name into a blank ‘non-specific` template for the purpose of entertainment. For sub-domain info, name removal requests and extra use confinements: FakeAWish.com
As the disclaimer notes, FakeAWish.com permitted users to inject a celebrity`s name into a template and choose from a multiplicity of death or injury stories, thereby generating a false news story like the one above. One such template generated the fatal ‘single vehicle crash` story.
Since the original two thousand fifteen version, a number of other hoax-news websites have falsely reported that John Cena died in a car accident. These later stories closely mirror the original two thousand fifteen death hoax report.
Old news reports indicate that John Cena was involved in a car accident back in 2012, but sustained only minor injuries. Some of the fake death posts have included pictures depicting this two thousand twelve accident.
Moreover, John Cena has been the target of several other death hoaxes in latest years. In 2012, a widespread social media message claimed that Cena had died during a wrestling stunt gone wrong. That version was designed to trick people into installing a rogue Facebook app.
Social media rumours claiming that a celebrity has died are very common. Some are outright hoaxes. Others attempt to trick users into installing malware or participating in survey scams.
It is thus wise to check any celebrity death reports that come your way before you share them or click any links that they contain.
If a celebrity truly does die, the story is sure to be extensively covered by mainstream news outlets around the world. A quick check via a news portal such as Google News should expose if reports about a famous person`s demise are true.