Zynga Is Clearly Paying Celebs to Pretend to Like Draw Something 2
Zynga, cruising on the highway to BrokeVille, is banking on its newest ripoff of Pictionary to be as wildly popular as the first one. Banking so heavily, in fact, that the company is just shamelessly getting famous people to feign interest on Twitter. Ryan Seacrest: diehard iPhone artist.
What's even funnier (read: sad) is the pics attached to the tweets, because, I'm sorry Ryan, there's no way you drew that.
working on a @nickiminaj and @keithurban masterpiece next twitter.com/RyanSeacrest/s… #drawsomething2
— Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) March 18, 2013
Or that.
Who knew I was such an artist? I'm loving #drawsomething2 ow.ly/i/1YeHz
— Elizabeth Banks (@ElizabethBanks) April 25, 2013
I'm looking at you too, Elizabeth Banks.
Draw Something 2 is out today!Been having too much fun playing with it!Check out my "art"! Ha #drawsomething2
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) April 25, 2013
Not buying it.
Fun w/ #drawsomething2 today
— Andy Cohen (@BravoAndy) April 25, 2013
No.
How about this #kiss? I'm loving #drawsomething2. Can't wait to see your drawings :) twitter.com/carlyraejepsen…
— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) April 26, 2013
Carly this was clearly done by the same Zynga employee that drew Seacrest's, come on.
just lost about an hour to #drawsomething2 twitter.com/robcorddry/sta…
— rob corddry (@robcorddry) April 25, 2013
Oh no Rob Corddry, not you too.
#thatPOWER on #drawsomething2... FRESH. Can you guess it? twitter.com/bep/status/327…
— The Black Eyed Peas (@bep) April 26, 2013
The Black Eyed Peas shilling isn't so much of a surprise, but that sketch could use some work.
draw em up up up #drawsomething2 is on fire 🔥 bit.ly/17Z9iAa twitter.com/petewentz/stat…
— Pete Wentz(@petewentz) April 25, 2013
Allllright, that's quite enough. They're not even doing a good job of faking it—most of these tweets went up within hours of each other, if not at the exact same time. But at least we know that even after millions and millions of people flee Zynga's games, they'll still have a few users left: the ones they're paying.