Are You Seeing Luke Perry Memorial Billboards Around Your City?

Saw one in the Chicago area yesterday, had his torso and upper legs but the head was cut off as well, weird, I’ve never seen a billboard memorial for a dead actor before.

wtf?

this makes no sense at all.

For weirdness

Wtf that's weird. Next time you see it take a photo

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Maybe some kid that loved the show who can now afford to put up billboards

I have no idea who Luke Perry is. Or what show he was on.

yeah. seems like there was more hoopla over him than other actors that have died. I don't get it either.

Unless they were going to use him to launch the new 90210 coming up, which was old and new actors, and he was in it.

Maybe they already had the advertisements and are using his death to promote the new show? that would be tacky.

Yep,spotted in Albuquerque. Same thing head gone just as you guys described.

Exactly, he was a big star in the early 90’s but most people today don’t know who he is. That’s why it’s weird to see a billboard in memory of him.

SC put up one, his head is not cut off though


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I loved him in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

Katie's older brother?

Yes upstate south Carolina

Recently dead Peter Tork of the Monkey's was more famous. No Billboards for him. Carol Channing, huge... no Billboards. Stan Lee, no billboards. Burt Reynolds, not a one.

Maybe he dies of a stroke in the New 90210 and the billboards play into the story line. Oh wait, he wasn't cast.

Maybe it will be like Big Chill and Luke will be Kevin Costner and they are all at a funeral.

Luther

Thanks, didn’t know that Burt Reynolds was gone. Weird!

Well I guess its clear they didn't have super fans any more who cared enough to pay a million for the one day billboard. Secondly, this may surprise you but Stan Lee's characters didn't make HIM famous, only comic fans knew whom he was by name or face.

I really hope this does NOT become a trend...I saw it twice to day, coming down the interstate in a major Southern city and then when I got to the exit, it was up again on the changeable LED billboard...I'm sure angry fans snapped a pic.

I was so perplexed I didn't even think to take the picture...one thing about that show, teens and young adults from all socioeconomic backgrounds watched that show...I guess the cast was like the Beatles of the early 90s, is the only way I could explain it.

Jesus Christmas...in 20 years we'll be seeing billboards saying "RIP to the Homies" for any random people who can afford to pay for the advertisement space. This is a BAD precedent...like super bad. This would only make sense in Los Angeles, not nation-wide. This cost MILLIONS easily...maybe Aaron Spelling's wife paid for it, Lord knows they owe Luke Perry a mint for his part in increasing their net worth to $600M. Luke's face made a LOT of people filthy rich...crazy how he stayed humble.

why spend millions and then fuck it up with something as stupid as a jpg that's sized wrong? Did they outsource the billboards to India?

what the fucking fuck?

I have no idea...I have been checking social media and images all day, NOBODY else seems to have taken a picture of this massive fuck up! It was so disrespectful to him and whomever PAID for the Clear Channel ads.

Lamar ran ads as well that came out nice, I saw pics of that online but everybody on redd!t is like, did he have ties to our area, why the fuck is this up? who paid?

All I can imagine is maybe he was a silent large shareholder in the billboard companies or something? Or maybe he was somebody important's son/relative that we never knew he was related to?

This is one of those "nobody will believe me because I didn't take the picture" kind of things...There are 5M people in my city...somebody HAD to see that error and snap a pic.

Maybe they will be up tomorrow.

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Just read on twitter that digital billboards are popping up everywhere of him

Taking photos of photos can lead to opening portals...or I watch too many movies...

So did he stroke out from coke or what?

Me too. Struck me as a way to play emotions and test the compatibility of billboards and phones. “Look, my phone says dude is dead, and sign does too”. #1984

Perry was also Archie's dad on Riverdale so his popularity with the millenials was huge as well. And don't forget how huge he really was in the 90s. The new James Dean, although I never got it.

Perry also stayed busy with his career in such a wide variety of things, including voice acting and christian cartoons...he really was everywhere.

He was supposed to be really down to earth and everyone that met him said how nice a guy he was. Including all the stage workers and normal people he dealt with. He also came from a blue collar family and had several siblings and one may have worked for the cable company or he invested in it.

It's weird until you remember how much this guy was liked by normal people in and out of the industry and how much he avoided all of of Hollyweird's BS. And the outpouring on twitter was from all sorts of people...so random in many cases. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the kids he worked with paid for them either though.

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Perhaps his death is a reminder of mortality to Generation X? Or a symbol of youth which has passed through time into middle age and early death.