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Heidi Montag And Spencer Pratt Out-Clever Us All; Also, Humanity Might Be Coming To An End

How Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Brilliantly Fooled The Internet
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If there's anything everyone can agree on in this divided, shutdown land we live in, it's that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are ridiculous human beings. Which is why their brilliant -- and successful -- experiment is so infuriating.

After shooting to mediocre fame on "The Hills" and U.K.'s "Big Brother," the attention-loving twosome announced they're launching a web series called "SpeidiShow." Each episode has the couple trying out a different reality show format, notes BuzzFeed, like living in Europe on $0 a day and helping out with a wedding.

The only interesting tidbit? The show doesn't exist.

Speidi joined forces with Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig, two writers in charge of a project called netprov (network improve narrative), reports BuzzFeed. Essentially, Montag, Pratt, Marino and Wittig wanted to see how much Internet buzz, with emphasis on Twitter, the show could create without ever really existing.

The worst thing about this experiment is its success. Fans tweeted about the different episodes, including Pratt's own sister, Stephanie, and MTV even wrote up a review of it. Just an hour ago, Pratt tweeted a promo to his nonexistent show:

The moral of this story? As Pratt, the man who spent $10 million preparing for the Mayan apocalypse, eloquently put it: "No one seems to know what to do with Twitter other than make fools of themselves. Why not play with it?"

For more on "SpeidiShow" and BuzzFeed's interview with Marino, head over to BuzzFeed.com.

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Before You Go

Celebrities Who Have Quit Twitter
Adele(01 of08)
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Adele quit in November after Twitter trolls bombarded the site with disgusting insults and taunts when news broke that the "Someone Like You" singer had given birth.Since then, the singer has rejoined Twitter. (credit:Getty)
Alec Baldwin(02 of08)
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The "30 Rock" star quit Twitter for the second time in July after getting married to Hilaria Thomas. (He first quit in December, after ranting about getting booted off an American Airlines flight). Update: Alec Baldwin rejoined the Twitter universe again in 2013. (credit:Getty)
Miley Cyrus(03 of08)
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There are only two words that need to be said about Miley Cyrus quitting Twitter, back in 2009, and they are This. Video. (credit:Getty)
Amanda Bynes(04 of08)
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Make up your mind already! Amanda Bynes took to Twitter to announce that she was retiring from acting, at age 24, in June 2010. A month later, Bynes announced she was unretiring from acting. Then, in September the same year, she announced she was sacking her Twitter account, only to reemerge (with skin-baring photos) under the new handle @msamandabynes. The account is not visible to the public. (credit:Getty)
John Mayer(05 of08)
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John Mayer admitted in June 2010 that he was "pretty much done" with his Twitter account, saying that "every night I think about canceling my Twitter account." The self-professed "tweetaholic" did delete his account, but, like any true addict, rejoined. (credit:Getty)
Sinead O'Connor (06 of08)
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After tweeting what many considered to be dark suicidal thoughts and cries for sexual attention on her Twitter account in 2011, the singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor did away with her account, the cheekily-named @howryeh. In September 2011, O'Connor, who suffers from bi-polar disorder, told the Guardian that her Twitter posts had been a "cry for help." (credit:Getty)
Ashton Kutcher(07 of08)
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He didn't quit, per se, but the "Two and a Half Men" actor and public internet entrepreneur announced he would be seeking Twitter management with the firm Katalyst Media after publicly scolding Penn State over the firing of Jerry Sandusky, before he had read news about the molestation scandal. "While I feel that running this feed myself gives me a closer relationship to my friends and fans, I've come to realize that it has grown into more [than] a fun tool to communicate with people," Kutcher wrote on his blog. (credit:Getty)
Chris Brown(08 of08)
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He's done it before, but Chris Brown most recently quit his Twitter account -- and removed most of his timeline -- in November 2011 after ranting about Rihanna. A sign that Brown had had enough: "I don't say s**t to anybody and everyone feels its cool to attack me. GROWN ADULTS!!!! that s**t happened three years ago!" the singer wrote. (credit:Getty)
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