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By Quentin Langley

I do not wish to be insensitive to Tila Tequila, a reality TV star who has had addiction problems and was hospitalised after an apparent suicide attempt, but her advisers need to keep her away from YouTube. The problem is, any idiot with a computer or a phone can upload stuff to the web. A great many idiots do. It makes it much harder for the handlers of celebrity idiots to prevent their clients doing something foolish.

In this video you will see her showing off her superpowers by creating energy balls out of thin air:

If you struggled through this cringeworthy drivel to the end you will have noticed Tila insisting that the effects you can see where not photoshopped on afterwards. (As a nitpick, she means cgi, not photoshop). That she feels the need to say this suggests she really believes that other people can see the light show she has – presumably with chemical assistance – conjured in her head.

Is it possible that she posted this knowing that it would gather some comment and controversy? People who are famous for being famous do have to keep upping the stakes to remain in the public eye. That seems unlikely. At this point, the video has had 245,000 views whereas some of Tequila’s music videos have had several million. As long as she has an actual music career, this sort of craziness is likely to hurt her reputation rather than enhance it.