Director Eli Roth is mostly semi-famous for his ventures into torture porn with the Hostel series and Cabin Fever. He’s also ventured a bit into acting with mostly uncredited parts, but in 2009 Roth played Sgt. Donny Donowitz (a.k.a. the Bear Jew) in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. And as fate would have it, his suspenders-wearing, baseball bat-wielding badass stirred the loins of Oh No They Didn’t, LiveJournal’s gossip community.
After X-Rated Bear Jew fanfic found its way into Roth’s hands, he tweeted about showing his parents and Basterds co-star Christoph Waltz (a wealth of thirst in his own right) the S&M laden fanfic. From there, Roth did what any reasonable celebrity would do—he fucked a whole gossip community.
Per usual when you cross sex + the internet, things escalated rapidly. After sending out an update about Waltz’s ineptitude with technology—"Does this go out to everybody’s blueberry?"—it was on. Fans (now known as Blueberries) flooded Roth’s mentions, asking for signs of his ONTD fandom, which he obliged with a picture declaring his love for ONTD—a sign taped to his furry chest.
Soon Roth was left alone with his fans via multiple social networks (Twitter, MySpace, LiveJournal), where he sent semi-clothed pictures of himself (including one where he seductively licks blueberries), and before you knew it a cyber-orgy was in full force. There is still screencap evidence of his very NSFW messages. The night ended with a lone, sad jizz tissue, which Roth took a picture of alongside the message: "Pics or it didn’t happen. Good morning, Blueberries."
Later on Roth released a college philosophy major-esque manifesto justifying his questionable behavior.
I have no message for the haters, only for the lovers. There’s a self-erected barrier between "celebrities" and "regular people" which I have always felt was complete nonsense. If I make a film, it cannot be a hit unless people go to see it. Celebrities need people as much as people need celebrities, because they give someone a fantasy of a life they wish they had, or show that anyone can realize a dream and come from nowhere to be adored all over the world.
Sure, bro.
It was clearly a bizarre moment in time of pre-#peak social media, but it's one that Roth looks back fondly on. In a Reddit AMA in 2013 Roth commented on his night of wild cyberfucking.
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Now, in 2015, Roth has two movies coming out, The Green Inferno (tomorrow) and Knock Knock (October 9th), the latter of which has a brief nod to the infamous jizz tissue of 2009. If Roth had done this in today’s savage Twitter climate, there’s no way he’d be able to clean up so easily.
He'd... need multiple tissues.
