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  • 2020-12-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Jaleel White's Net Worth Leave Family 'in Tears'? (en)
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  • Jaleel White is most famous for his portrayal of Steve Urkel on the television sitcom Family Matters, which aired from 1989-1998. The loveable, nosy, and nerdy neighbor was the bane of Carl Winslow's existence, and he helped immortalize several catchphrases, including Did I do that?; I've fallen and I can't get up; and Got any cheese? In October 2020, fabricated stories and advertisements began to surface the phrase: Jaleel White's Net Worth Left His Family in Tears. The ads led to a lengthy slideshow story on Finance Wealth Post. After 225 clicks, Jaleel White appeared on page 225: In addition to the ads, there were also poorly written pages that falsely claimed White had a suicide endeavor that resulted in his demise: These stories were false. We previously reported on similar false stories about the net worth left his family in tears ploy featuring Alex Trebek and Sean Connery, who both passed away in the latter half of 2020. Advertisers bought ad space to push the claim that the net worths for Trebek and Connery left their families in tears. After readers clicked the ads, they landed on slideshows that required seemingly endless clicks across sometimes more than 100 pages just to finish the stories. By the end of the slideshows, there was no mention of anyone's net worth leaving a family in tears. This is known as advertising arbitrage, where the idea is to make more money on the advertisements displayed during the slideshow than it cost to run the original ad that lured readers to the story in the first place. The business and technology blog Margins referred to arbitrage as the mythical free lunch that economics tells us does not exist. In the case of the pages that falsely claimed Jaleel White's net worth left his family in tears, it was initially unclear if such ads were running yet. However, as displayed above, we were able to confirm that the ads were running in December 2020. Additionally, bits and pieces of the story appeared to possibly come from a junk news page published in 2019. White has been the subject of a previous suicide death hoax as far back as 2006. White had also been the subject of other misleading stories and videos, including one YouTube video titled: The Real Reason We Don't Hear About Jaleel White Anymore. In reality, White is on Twitter and Instagram, where he's recently been promoting his debut as a podcast host. Also, according to his IMDb page he was cast in a handful of television and film roles in the last several years, including popular TV series such as DuckTales, Raven's Home, and Fresh Off the Boat. (en)
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