Tuesday, October 6, 2009

a youtube rant

I kind of concluded that nowadays it is so easy to get famous -- for anything. You get famous for being talented, you can be famous for not having any talent at all, or you can be famous for just being a complete douchebag. One example would be YOUTUBE.

Late last year, YouTube hosted YouTube Live, where all "popular" and "most subscribed" youtubers got invited (by youtube themselves!) to this event in some big city (San Francisco I believe). But before I talk about that let me show you a website that showed 10 people who got famous on youtube.

http://www.pluginhq.com/youtube-celebrities/

It is somewhat outdated but it shows you an idea of what people did to succeed. Most of the people mentioned showed web junkies around the world how good they can sing. Others were just there to entertain. And with the ability to record themselves and edit videos, they were then recognized and loved by the citizens of this world. J

Other than Marie Digby who’s been signed and Jessica Rose who starred in a TV series, some names not mentioned were Lisa Nova and that dude who makes funny stories for marvel/dc action figures.

But anyways, youtube live invited highly subscribed youtubers to go to their event and they also invited some big names such as Katy Perry and Akon and I guess the lucky invited ones got the chance to meet them and party with them and blah blah blah. I don’t really know how they determined which ones to invite since I have seen a couple of people on youtube who did pretty good with their videos but were not invited. But I guess this event was a lot of people’s opportunity to become really big and famous.

However, it still takes up a lot of confidence and determination to make it big anywhere in this world. It might not be as hard as it was back then since “they” look for you now and not so much on the other way around anymore.

Again, people nowadays can be famous for just about anything.

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