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Shia LaBeouf Blocked Seth Rogen On Twitter For Whatever Reason
Seth Rogen on 'The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon' (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/NBC/Getty Images for 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon')
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More like Shia LaBEEF! Right, guys?
And for his latest trick, performance artist provocateur Shia LaBeouf pulled a quick one and blocked select Twitter followers without telling them. It's a conceptual piece about the nature of celebrity and expectations, we imagine. Also, modernity.
What the actual FUCK?? pic.twitter.com/gj1DUv953V
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 4, 2015
One of those bestowed with the gift was the lovable and affable Seth Rogen who is totally not the worst person in the world. Except maybe when he's ruining Amy Pascal's office from smoking too much weed.
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Why would Shia LaBeouf block Seth Rogen?!
Hmm. Could it be this?
Shia Labouf and Ryan Gosling should have a contest to see who can take themselves more seriously.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) April 11, 2013
There's also this, in response to the discovery that he totally plagiarized Daniel Clowes.
This is by far the most I've ever been entertained by Shia LaBeouf.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 2, 2014
Look man, Shia was really sorry about that. Maybe Seth should've been a little more empathetic towards Shia, like his buddy James.
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