Notwithstanding the flood of tweets on Wednesday night saying "#RIPSouljaBoy," the "Crank That" rapper is not actually dead. In fact, this has been the trend on Twitter from some time now, as on a number of occasions, users have been using the hashtag insinuating that Soulja Boy has died.

However, fortunate for his fans, this turned out to be yet another hoax.

Despite the rumors, the rapper is alive and well and posted a message on his Twitter sometime around 7.30 pm. ET, August 20, writing, "I challenge all my fans to do the ALS challenge and post it on my app today! http://www.souljaboyapp.com."

In another post, about three hours earlier, the Atlanta-based rapper tweeted, "Accomplish your goals."

However, this did not stop people from tweeting the hoax. One user wrote, "Is Soulja Boy dead or the internet killed him? #RIPSouljaBoy," while another posted, "#RIPsouljaboy is trending. Great. Twitter is killing celebrities again."

There was another tweet that read, "Why does #RIPsouljaboy trend every year? What does this even mean? Who started this? I have so many questions. Lol."

It seems that the hoax was started by a Twitter user on Tuesday. The user wrote, "Make sure you tweet it so everyone knows #RIPsouljaboy," and it was subsequently retweeted a few thousand times.

According to a rumor, Soulja Boy was at a party, got drunk and was singing his Superman song. Suddenly, he tried to do some Superman exploits and jumped off a balcony, letting go of his last breath on the spot. Another rumor circulating in June this year said that Soulja Boy and his mother died in a car crash. However, in reality, neither the rapper nor his mother died. Both are still alive and well.

In fact, the rumor about Soulja Boy jumping to his death while singing his Superman song is something akin to the rumors that Meatloaf died from bad meatloaf or that Bobby McFerrin (singer of "Don't Worry, Be Happy") killing himself.

Many people were of the view that such rumors were so paradoxical that they must be true. Nevertheless, all these were mere hoaxes.