It should be noted that Irwin gave up his points about 27 years ago, the first of the 12 to walk on the moon to do so. He started the High Flight Foundation, the name of which I suspect was taken from this thing, which I recall one local TV station running as a prelude to their late-night sign-off.
Never heard whether he actually ever found the ark, though.
Maybe I’m just extremely cynical but I think on the small chance that he actually ends up in prison, it will be a comfortable prison with a chickenshit sentence, like he’ll be out after maybe a year, and probably will spend it stuffing his face and beating his meat. Someone like that would never get put in “gen-pop” because he’s too high-profile and would create a distraction. Also, guys like that never seem to kill themselves, unfortunately. Their egos are too big.
OK. I’m not really invested in points or anything and I fully realize that picking low-hanging fruit isn’t exactly sporting either, but YouTube celebrities? Really? The only time I even know who a YouTube celebrity is if they do something so stupid that they make to real news (Diamond and Silk, that other idiot with the blond hair whose name I can’t even remember … I’m looking at you).
How exactly does followers on YouTube make one an according-to-Hoyle celebrity?
What makes anybody a celebrity? An obscure member of a professional sports team from 1974 could be considered a celebrity enough for this particular game. My measurement right now is if they have a Wikipedia article, they’re a contender.
Like it or not, but internet fame is a thing, and Twitch and YouTube are shaping up to be as significant as any TV network, projected to be even more so in the future when the millennials run the world. Progress is change.