The way Rihanna's mountain of classics (according to ATRL she sneezes and a global trend-setting classic comes out) and status of the #1 fashion icon of all time (according to ATRL the wind blows her hair to one side and it instantly becomes
the global hair trend) + biggest black woman of all time (according to ATRL no one knows black people outside the US except for Rihanna) couldn't make people care about R8 or its existence (or lack of)
Worst part is I'd actually started to believe some of this.