Oh, dear. For our younger readers: Tupac Shakur was a very popular rapper and actor who was murdered at the age of 25 in September 1996. Last night, a realistic-looking Tupac hologram performed at the Coachella Music Festival. You can read our full report on Twitter reaction to Coachella last night here; here’s a video of the hologram in action:
Some Twitter users are not completely convinced that it’s a hologram. Seriously:
https://twitter.com/#!/xhannahdean/status/191841117141090304
https://twitter.com/#!/itscliffsavage/status/191832599088463872
https://twitter.com/#!/TheReal_Nomagee/status/191843022470782976
https://twitter.com/#!/LeeSpielman/status/191779386691829760
https://twitter.com/#!/seniorgee/status/191777281151217664
https://twitter.com/#!/Hayden_Wins/status/191845943061123072
Some have questions:
https://twitter.com/#!/Rob_Hoffman/status/191619038936436736
Others want to see more of the hologram:
https://twitter.com/#!/girltalk/status/191786629818617856
https://twitter.com/#!/KidBritain/status/191846524311977985
https://twitter.com/#!/runthedive/status/191846544851480577
Still others are just plain creeped out:
https://twitter.com/#!/LAWeeklyMusic/status/191776916812992512
https://twitter.com/#!/Sassy_Couture/status/191845238485164034
https://twitter.com/#!/_MereniaaN/status/191845142305574913
https://twitter.com/#!/JayVerze/status/191839797646594048
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Update: It was inevitable. Tupac’s hologram now has its own Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac/status/191808172141453312
https://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac/status/191897864467787776
https://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac/status/191919152871636993
https://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac/status/191923970528907264
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