Yes, this is happening. From the blog of Buzzfeed's Tanner Ringerud, whose office neighbors that of Ms. Kardashian's store DASH:

My afternoon. Candlelight vigil outside DASH to mourn Kim Kardashian’s divorce. We were out there for an hour singing Beatles and Coldplay songs.

There is a picture:

From Buzzfeed's TwitPic, the sad notes they left:

Now, granted, this is Buzzfeed, a website known for aggregating Internet memes and who are totally suspect for coordinating this kind of internet pranksterism with something like, say, a Craigslist ad to corral people into participating with them.

In moments like this, the famously foreboding quote which opens Kurt Vonnegut's Nazi propaganda-spy satire Mother Night comes racing into already seared minds: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." The odds that there are people so mentally disturbed as to be legitimately upset by this news—the inevitable conclusion of a brilliantly crass, cynical, and wildly successful commercial experiment—are disconcertingly real. To this extent, one might care to consider the philosophical implications of legitimately egging them on.

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