Sometimes Jake's people let their guard down just long enough for their official narrative to take a hit.
About three and a half weeks before Sunday in the Park with George opened, Jake began to very publicly be placed in New York City in preparation for Previews, which kicked off on February 11th. [Recap: Jake began 2017 with the highly visible St. Bart's photo essay, which circulated well into the new year. The Caribbean respite then quickly morphed into his appearance at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, CA on January 8, peaking with a spotting at the Taco Bell in Southgate MI on January 14th.]
And, not surprisingly, since Jake's return to the Big Apple for the duration of his Broadway show, his daily social media searches have been stretched to Violet Beauregarde levels of hot air inflation. A torrential flood of memes and robot tweets followed one after the other, not only stretching credulity, but making the head spin with the seemingly omnipresent flow of nothing to hide Jakeness.
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Right? lol. Social media activity filled with tweets and Tumblrs on being "robbed", being under-respected, not knowing how to hold a dog, not knowing how to physically run with dignity
the way he looks at Heath, Natalie, Anne, and a host of others from his life history (except Austin Nichols), sharing gum with other men at the Tony's, catfishing Amy Schumer, picking up bagels off the subway floor and eating them, just to name a few. Yes, these and more have been robot tweeted with an obviously robust purpose. It's a way to fill up space - this author likes to refer to the phenomenon as "Twitter Botox".
However, while Mgmnt has been busy stuffing Jake's social media activity, what they had forgotten to do was to continue carrying out their client's "living in New York City amongst the people" and waving-from-the-front-porch narrative. From previous time periods in NYC, Jake has been reported to be: sitting against brick walls drinking coffee at La Colombe, grabbing a workout at the gym or Soul Cycle, reading books on the subway, walking down the middle of random streets amidst the taxi cabs with earbuds, standing on subway trains [see December 9 2014 tweet of being a "subway stud"], entering crosswalks with the likes of Marcus Mumford.... No, Jake wasn't seen to be doing any of these previously routine, papped activities and in particular, pictured or tweet sighted on the NYC trains. (Jake and trains being the key rinse and repeat words.)
Then, a few weeks ago (around February 20), this Tumblr post appeared:
Oh wait that was interesting; read that again, what did it say?
"After the show i waited outside to meet Jake! It was terrible cause he
was heading to the car and I was farther down on the line so I walked up
like everyone else"
Since that time, Mgmnt has tried to gradually up their game a bit.
Ella Cerón (@ellaceron)
2/21/17, 08:21
Real New Yorker™ level unlocked: saw Jake Gyllenhaal on the subway.
On March 8, these two tweets were particularly entertaining:
This tweet above was interesting because the picture is an old one. And it appeared in Jake's search timeline on March 8, although the date on the original says January 17.
And it was on March 7, that this particular robot tweet below had a resurgence in life after being in incubation from the first go-around back in October of 2014 (not particularly easy to "dig up" an old tweet like this unless you have a link):
See how that would subliminally work? Repeat, repeat, repeat an association and the mind associates or is "reminded" that Jake lives in New York City now and he is a "regular" on the subway.
Even though, @myirishjaredlove reported seeing him headed to a car after the show. Interestingly enough, there just are not tweet sightings of Jake on the subway trains prior to or after his shows this year. There have been several random ones, but they are few and far between. Which lends to the curious question of why this practice would pretty much cease to non-existent this time around?
Just wondering. :-)
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