How the heck did Urban Legends spread so fast back in the day when internet was limited?

[Apollo Creed]

I remember everyone talking about that Lil Bow wow getting raped by his limo driver all at the same time when we got back to school one weekend and that same week Bow wow went on 106 n Park to address the rumor.

The crazy thing is I was at my counsins house that weekend and some kids in his neighborhood told me and I got back to school that monday and it was everywhere.

Or even earlier the fake Tommy Hillfiger Oprah interview about him not making clothes for black people and you had goofies really saying "yeah I seen that breh "


Or the rumor about Surge shrinking your meat

 

[Fart Knocker]

The lil Kim and Marilyn Manson rumors were both classic school rumors

 

[CarltonJunior]

Around these parts Mountain Dew was the meat shrinking drink breh

Didn't drink that shyt for a decade after hearing that.

I also believed that Ciara was born with a dikk. IDK she just seemed like she was back then

 

[Soundbwoy]

When people would go visit relatives, Im in montreal and I remember hearing that bow wow rumour from a kid who spent the whole summer in NY

 

[75 Others]

Around these parts Mountain Dew was the meat shrinking drink breh

Didn't drink that shyt for a decade after hearing that.

It was more of Yellow 5 supposedly shrinking your shyt than Mt Dew.

Dudes wanted no parts with food that had Yellow 5 in it

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I always wondered this as well.

Lil kim getting her stomach pumped

 

[DMVLeGenD]

The lil Kim and Marilyn Manson rumors were both classic school rumors

You talking bout the rumor that she slurped up so much skeet, she had to get her stomach pumped out???

 

[Demon]

9th grade, 1996, Philadelphia PA

apparently, Lil Kim was at a show in Philly and sucked a bunch of nikkas off and jerked them off into a cup, then put it in her mouth as she was going onstage so she can spit it on the front row, but she swalllowed it by accident and had to get rushed to the hospital to get her stomach pumped......




The most hilarious urban legend that changed details from city to city

 

[larsattack]

People use to say Cassidy was raped in jail and had to get his ass stitched

 

[TL15]

Because people are

 

[Fart Knocker]

You talking bout the rumor that she slurped up so much skeet, she had to get her stomach pumped out???

yup

 

[concise]

I remember when I was a kid, it was said that Tropical Fantasy sodas could make you sterile.

To this day, I have never had one.

 

[Trill Bellamy]

Ive never drank a Mountain Dew to this day because of that Yellow No.5 rumor

 

[$lim]

word of mouth is a mf

 

[Motife43]

Yellow 5

I remember being 11 in summer camp and hearing that. Went to the bathroom ASAP and examined myself. That's the first time I was aware of meat size