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Originally Posted by Atocep
Was talking about this on Sunday with a friend of mine. We couldn't name anyone in our lifetime that matches a combination of the level of celebrity and the out of nowhere nature of this. Lennon is the closest thing we could come up with and that was outside both of our lifetimes.
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It's only been 23 years (give or take) since Diana. That was by far the most obvious comparison to me.
With that time in mind, I called this the most significant celebrity death in the lifetime of the under-21 audience though. Arguably the biggest in the social media era too.