Former Local's Finance Becomes the Object of Worldwide Jealousy

Mike Paulus |

 
Jesse's girl.

Former Eau Clairian Justin Johnson proposed to his girlfriend through a complicated rigging of the social media/blogging platform Tumblr and a sweet video (with 80,000 views and counting). It helps that Johnson is a filmmaker and it helps that he started filming his fiancé Marissa since the first time he met her, but still … this puts a lot of lovestruck dudes to shame. The proposal was basically the social media equivalent of a public proposal at a baseball game via JumboTron, except, you know, way cooler. Simply googling “Justin and Marissa” produces pages and pages of articles and blog posts on the proposal, ranging from congratulatory odes to hoax theories to jealous rants. Spoiler: she said yes. See the video at VolumeOne.org.