After a long while, with Marcus Lynch's explanation, Thea Shaw finally understood what was going on.
It turned out that there was a fan site admin for a celebrity who, a few days ago, was clearing her photo inventory and used a secondary account to post a bunch of various celebrity photos, but among those photos were airport photos of Thea Shaw and Landon Ford.
That airport photo went viral instantly.
The key point was that the bunch of celebrity photos looked like the most attractive kids in the crowd, completely overshadowed by the explosion of this photo.
After seeing the photo, the celebrity fans immediately said they were switching loyalties, and compared to the man in the photo, their idols just didn't measure up.
After the site admin realized her mistake, she immediately deleted the photo and issued a statement saying it was a candid photo accidentally posted and hoped people wouldn't spread it.
But no one believed her.
How could such a photo be of a random person?
