On June 13th, Takei addressed the controversy on his Facebook page with an image macro of his Star Trek character sipping tea and the caption reminding his fans not to believe everything they read online (shown below). On June 12th, Romenesko wrote a follow-up post revealing that Polito has apologized to Takei and his husband since his last blog post, acknowledging that Polito never had contact with Takei and had only sent in a few image macros for consideration. On June 7th, Takei admitted to Wired that his husband, Brad, and a team of interns sometimes help him out to assure there is steady content on the page, but claimed that all of the commentary provided is his own. That day, the story was picked up by Buzzfeed, where readers expressed their disappointment that Takei had not been doing the writing himself (shown below, right). On June 6th, 2013, media analyst Jim Romenesko revealed in a blog post that his friend and columnist Rick Polito, whose humorous synopsis of Wizard of Oz from 1998 went viral on Reddit a few days prior (shown below, left), had been ghostwriting jokes on George Takei’s Facebook fan page for $10 each. On November 17th, Takei created a Tumblr blog titled “Are you talking to Meme?”, which features posts containing photographs and image macros (shown below). On March 23rd, the official Facebook page for George Takei was created, which received over 2.9 million likes within the next 22 months. Takei joined Twitter on January 13th, 2011 and went onto accumulate over 490,000 followers in less than two years. Tennessee’s ’Don’t Say Gay’ Bill,” in which Takei offered the use of his last name to substitute for the word “gay.” Within 19 months, the video amassed over 1.2 million views and 9,600 comments. On May 19th, 2011, YouTuber allegiancebway uploaded a video titled “George Takei vs. Within two years, the video received more than 1.54 million views and 8,650 comments, as well as spawning a handful of parodies. On November 1st, 2010, YouTuber significantjay uploaded a video titled "George Takei Calls Out Anti-Gay Arkansas School Board Member",” in which Takei responded to the former Arkansas school board member Clint McCance by calling him a “douche bag” (shown below). On April 27th, 2010, YouTuber bigtvshop uploaded a commercial for the television manufacturer Sharp, in which Takei says the phrase "Oh my" (shown below, right). On January 18th, 2009, YouTuber Ralph Miller uploaded a video titled "Oh My 'The George Takei Song'," featuring the Howard Stern sample mixed with the song "Oh Yeah" by Yello (shown below, left). The phrase was often sampled on the Howard Stern radio show, typically in response to sexual innuendo. According to the Straight Dope Forums, Takei's character in the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House used the catchphrase frequently.
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