Ron Artest: Is Metta World Peace Guilty of Trolling Dancing with the Stars?
Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace, a man formerly known as Ron Artest, is a man of many talents. Chief among them are defense, knocking down threes, music, comedy and just overall general weirdness.
After watching World Peace bomb on Dancing with the Stars, though, we now know that dancing is not among his array of talents. However, I do think World Peace's DWTS appearance can lead us to add an entirely different talent to his collection:
Trolling.
My hope is that this is the word I don't have to define in this day and age, as surely anybody who has been on or near the Internet at any point in the last century knows what trolling is.
But if I must, all you really need to know is that trolling essentially involves acting like a jackass just for the sake of one's amusement. Most people do it just for the LOLs (I'll leave you to look that one up).
At any rate, the reason I'm willing to accuse World Peace of being guilty of trolling DWTS is because he basically hinted as much in an interview with Access Hollywood after he was booted off the show on Tuesday night after just one dance.
Said World Peace:
"I’m a clown. I think I was maybe having too much fun. But you know, somebody had to go early and first. Somebody had to go. But I had a blast. The cast is great, all the dancers. I met new people, new personalities. I got a chance to experience a new thing.
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That World Peace thinks of himself as a clown is not much of a revelation. His clownery, if you will, has always been self-evident.
But World Peace took it to dazzling new heights on DWTS, as brief as his time on the show was. The Dennis Rodman outfit was a stroke of mad genius, and World Peace then proceeded to sully the dance floor with a series of maneuvers that barely qualified as dancing.
For those who get World Peace, this was not painful to watch. On the contrary, it was quite glorious.
And somewhat by the man's own admission, this was kinda the whole point. He wasn't on DWTS to win. If I may repeat myself, he was there just for the LOLs. And I don't know about you, but I helped myself to a few as well.
Because of that, World Peace's time on Dancing with the Stars was not a failure. He did exactly what he wanted to do: came, had fun and left with everyone laughing and asking what the hell just happened.
Regardless, don't make the mistake of thinking that this is the last we've seen of World Peace. Like all trolls, he'll be back.
