South Park Makes Fun of Youtube Internet Celebrities of the Day
This is a bit of a mess of a clip from South Park because it’s all over the fucking place and confuses the fuck out of me and ends in pretty fucking weak way, but I am posting it anyway because Internet celebrities are the biggest fucking joke out there.
People make retarded videos in hopes of being the number 1 YouTube video just for the sake of being the number 1 YouTube video and don’t get paid for the loss of their dignity but just increasing traffic to YouTube making other assholes a whole lot richer while they go back to their lonely one room apartments.
Sure Tron guy got a TV commercial and used the money to move up from a studio apartment to a 2 bedroom, Chris Crocker moved to Hollywood and was let into trendy clubs, Laughing baby went on to a life of hardcore porn, Afro Ninja got dragged behind a pickup truck in some kind of hate crime and Star Wars Kid died of a heartattack while eating a Poutine in his French Canadian home town at the age of 17, but for the most part these people are just ripped off by the mainstream media and never see a penny…while making other people rich. The genius of user generated content because everyone wants to be famous.
Most of the people in this clip are pre-youtube internet famous and were just videos emailed around as an attachment, but it’s safe to say they are probably the reason youtube was created, they just aren’t recognized for that.
I guess I shouldn’t talk, since I do internet bullshit for no money but I guess since no one reads the site and my top viewed stepTV was by 10 people, it’s safe to say that I’ve never inspired many people to get rich so I feel like a less successful Tron Guy but that’s probably just because he’s got a better body than me and you people are so fucking superficial….
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
how many of those internet fucktards can say there were in maxim magazine…or was it stuff? FHM? well in an actual magazine read by thousands
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
You know, the really rich folks are the ones that create something new, not the ones that follow the trend, no matter how trendy they are.
That goes for you too, Jesus. You might make money out of rehashing content other people created, but you won’t get filthy rich until you do something novel.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 pm
what a funny video. the ladies on the site sugarmommymeet.com must love it, i will share it with them asap.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I haven’t seen the full episode, but this clip from South Park made me laugh like a retarded kid getting tickled by a ferret. I particularly loved watching the mother panda of “Sneezing Panda” attack and kill Chris Crocker.
As far as the uselessness of user-generated content is concerned, I personally don’t care. The Interweb, as I experience it, is a great tool for communication and the sharing of information. While there is a lot of crap being published (videos, blogs, ads, etc), I still value its “consumer controlled” impetus. Most people still sit their asses down in front of the TV for hours, blindly absorbing whatever the networks think is important. At least when you’re online, you have the opportunity to choose and in many cases (such as this post) interact and respond.
Furthermore, I frankly don’t care whether people posting YouTube videos make money or not. It’s free to post, free to watch, etc. It comes with the territory. For established artists (musicians, actors, visual artists, film-makers), YouTube is proving to be a fantastically effective advertising medium. Most of these artists understand the basics of business as well; namely, you have to spend money to make money.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
… how ironic, in a subtle and unintended way.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
thanx man