I was reading a blog, and I saw a video about a class that they teach at a progressive university. The point of the class is 2 ‘get famous’ on the internet. It seems like a class that I would be good at. I h8 traditional classes like ‘chemistry’, ‘psychology’ and ‘Latin American Studies.’ I just want to be at a school that understands my existential needs, and what inspires me.
From what I understand, u r supposed to find a way to establish a personal brand and ‘go viral’ on the internet.
Via PSFK
Sometimes I wonder if u even need college. Like if ur passionate enough about going viral, u can make n e thing happen. Kinda like the Choco Rain guy. He had a plan and didn’t need a college education to make it happen. A lot of people want 2 ‘be famous’ on the internet, but I they’d realize that if ur uninteresting enough to ‘find meaning’ in real life, then ur life/opinions/self-generated memes probably aren’t interesting enough to make u a compelling figure 4 some1 2 follow on a daily basis. Not even if u r an altbro in a Basquiat shirt riding in a thong then vimeoing about it.
FEel like s0 many people try to ‘find meaning’ on the internet, or they think they deserve to ‘get paid’ [via advertising revenue] for just sharing their memes. They are s0 out of touch with reality. It’s kinda weird how not even that many people want to be ‘mainstream famous’ any more. A more authentic version of fame comes with being ‘microfamous’ via the internet. Some people also want 2 b ‘macro-anonymous.’
I feel like social networks, meme proliferation, and services that allow u to get feedback from a ‘tribe’ are bad for society/our economy. There are startup companies, bands, and web-based businesses that feel like they are ‘making progress’ because they sign up for social networks and get more feedback than ever. But every1 is getting feedback. It’s just part of being alive on the internet. Just makes me kind of sad when a band ‘thinks they are getting better and have a relevant fan base’ when they have actually just been hanging around on the internet for weeks. Just think it’s kinda funny/sad when entities ’stay alive’ longer than they should just because they have THE INTERNET to exist as this entity.
Kinda like when some one ‘makes a logo’ for a cool new venture/blog/website that they are starting, then they make a myspace+twitter+fb group, and then they start being an ass hole about their venture. U wish they would just interact with u from their own profile, instead of [venture-name]@gmail.com. It gets sad, and eventually, their web venture fails. They don’t achieve their goals/fame/success/monetization. They probably put it on their resume, like ass holes, and will try to tell old people who interview them for a ‘real job’ that they ‘had a startup company’ just because they had a twitter and an ebay store.
Do yall know n e 1 like this? Do u h8 when people glorify these types of people for ‘having an entrepreneurial spirit’?
Just sayin yall…. don’t put all ur eggs in 1 basket. Even if u do get ‘internet famous’, it doesn’t mean u’ll get money 4 it, and it doesn’t mean ur life will be meaningful. Not every1 can be Mark Zuckerberger.
But srsly… do yall think that class is ‘bullshit’? I think that professor probably ‘just gives every1 As’ at the end of the semester, even the ‘cunty, untalented girl’ who ’shouldn’t be at design school.’ Can some1 tell that professor not to give the people in that video ‘points’ for the class even though I blogged about them? h8 helping ppl.
What grade do u think U would get in that class?
What obvious strategies would u use to ‘build a following’?
Just want to be comfortable with who I am [in real life AND on the internet].
////I want 2 be famesies.’
Just want to ‘get paid’ and be ‘critically acclaimed’ for ‘being myself’ and ‘living life’ by ‘being on the internet for 70% of my life.’
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i don’t think that bro in the video gets mad hits
this is fucked up bro
i would like to see that bro’s sitemeter bro
damn bro
i don’t know
i don’t think he gets hits at all
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//////////Reply by RIPanconeyisland:(
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
@tao, its not about hits
its about whether ur blog/web archive is made into a small documentary twenty years later that airs on p4ktv a year after that
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//////////Reply by spandecks
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 9:39 am
@tao, yr the 1st one I thought of after reading this. Time to washmy norman roxwell tshirt
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first fuckers
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
@mstrcnt, damn it
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//////////Reply by tao
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
@mstrcnt, i made a long ass comment and still got first
damn bro
what’s wrong with you bro
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
@tao, i failed outta design school n i cant reed 2 good :(
hooked on phonics didnt werk 4 mee. hooked on coke did tho :(
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//////////Reply by corydan
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
@tao, bro u got this on brockdown.
like lockdown but strictly 4 the broz.
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//////////Reply by HEARLDKUMAR
//////////Posted March 13th, 2009 at 12:30 am
@tao, LOL I id entify whit ur critike
do u use RSSS S TOO?LOL
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That guy in the video is my friend on Tumblr!
Does that kind of make him famous?
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gonna go for a shot in th darknezz and say that 95% of those class bros are all middle children from middle class fams that didn’t get enough attn as KIDS.
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Is it taught on semesters or quarters? Semesters are very important to my personal brand.
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//////////Reply by commenterbro
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
@Carissa,
lol
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i know some journalism fags who have to “vlog” for their classes. i troll them in the comments so hard on my many youtube accounts. one of them even issued an angry followup vid telling people not to ridicule him. i hope this teaches professors to stay out of my internet. that or i just mb8 to my trolling success.
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//////////Reply by teehee
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 7:49 am
@stev, I was a journalism major 3 years ago, drooped out because of “personal” stuff. BUT this news def. gets me excited to go back to school!
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Oh this is all so complicated!
Can’t we just go back to the old days when all you had to do was fuck someone to get your moment in the sun?
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you shouldve been interveiwed by current.! you are bigger than him
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//////////Reply by louis
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
@georgeofthejungle, carles could prolly be a host on current tv, its pretty alt since al gore owns it u kno?
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extremely depressed at the lack of quotes around ‘progressive university’
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the class is bullshit because there is absolutely no reason to pay for that class or listen to the professor who is clearly not ‘internet famous’ as the title implies
however if i was not a dropout i would eat that class up because the hw would basically just be what i already do
<3 u progressive nobodies university
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first comment
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“FEel like s0 many people try to ‘find meaning’ on the internet, or they think they deserve to ‘get paid’ [via advertising revenue] for just sharing their memes. They are s0 out of touch with reality.”
“Just want to ‘get paid’ and be ‘critically acclaimed’ for ‘being myself’ and ‘living life’ by ‘being on the internet for 70% of my life.’”
Aren’t U being hypocritical?
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//////////Reply by trying2findmyself
//////////Posted March 11th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
@^_^, do u actually think carlez rereads his posts before publishing hem?
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//////////Reply by commenterbro
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
@trying2findmyself,
lol
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//////////Reply by j
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@^_^, but isn’t that the point?
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CRLS. that video pissed me off mega. all of those “college students” are idiots trying to force memes down society’s figurative throat.
Teaching a “fun” class like that is like a 2000s equivalent to teaching eugenics in the 1930s; its something “that everyone will talk about” but ultimately does nothing to the students besides poison their mind.
thanks for letting me vent. love you bro
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P.S.
ONLY IN NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!!
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ps: this has me seriously wanting to leave the internet. it just ain’t the same as when i was botting aol chats back in the ’90s yall. i guess i’d still turn on my computer to pirate music but other than that i feel like i’m living in an online version of that song “arcade fire” by the windowsills.
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the internet is like vh1 now.
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//////////Reply by gazastrippers
//////////Posted March 13th, 2009 at 12:24 am
@topher, OMG ILUV TALK SOUP
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carles, the choco rain guy went to my college…….
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so did kramer and courtney love
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see I guess the best thing about HRO is deciphering crls’ ridiculous prose but the thing is he’s kind of an insightful dude. I wish he had a mnstrm blg that was Web 2.0 proper and used Georgia and had a generic non-meaningful custom image header where he could put this Relevant Commentary, free from the huge in-joke that is HRO and the consequent cheapening of his interesting and engaging viewpoints.
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//////////Reply by ??
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 7:58 am
@moneybagzzz, this dude i work with has been use georgia in his emails for years, but he got a new boss and his new boss wasn’t happy w/ him used georgia. made him switch it to arial.
kinda makes me hate my workplace y’all.
carles, this is a true story.
btw – h8 websites that try to cr8 meme’s that will go viral and try to identify next big trends. h8 when they try to align themselves w/ current youth movements by posting relevant mp3s. the worst part is when blogs get all uppity and think they’ve “made it big” when they get amappy ads as if that made them culturally relevant. only thing worse is when they get domino’s $5 za ads. h8 blogs like that so much! i won’t read them much less comment.
<3 U
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Wow, crls. Are you Andy Warholing this guy? Are you going to make him famous? Are you going to get some ribs removed?
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I would get an F in this class, but on the other hand I don’t think I would ever take it- so I can’t complain really. But then I ask myself why do I have a blog then?
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Can you imagine a guy like ‘Famous Andrew’ storming the beach at Normandy on D-day in 1944? Can you image his savage visage as he charged Nazi machine gun installations– bullets whizzing past his head?
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//////////Reply by gene
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 10:35 am
@dead soldiers crotch, live blogging the invasion . . .
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//////////Reply by sOO zany name
//////////Posted May 15th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
@gene,
12:03: listen to arcade fire /w my bros.
12:31: chill.
12:34: check followers on twitter – got +1
12:35: get shot in head.
I feel sOO bad right now ’cause i’m grmn.
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Oh, Mylanta. Carles described me perfectly. o_o
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I’m underground on the internet.
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memes should occur naturally. those collegebros are playing god.
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//////////Reply by commenterbro
//////////Posted March 12th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@……,
lol
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i just think the internet and social networking will make the world smaller and allow more people to be exposed to new people and new ideas, and in the end be a good thing for our society.
peace
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god damn i knew crls was a tater-tot-alt
AZNs R coolr thn mexis. final.
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I have never felt the need to comment on an article before, but this article/blog is just about the most retarded thing I have ever read. I would like to think absolutely no thought went into your opinions (as well as most of these comments), because otherwise, that would just be sad.
If you really can’t see the social or economic benefits of startups or bands who use the internet to gather a following, I would love to hear your opinion of your own website is.
I doubt bands think they are “getting better” as they get more feedback; rather, a lot of positive feedback is probably an indication that you are doing something right. The internet makes getting that kind of feedback possible in way that wasn’t before.
And you guys can’t see the real-world benefit of class that teaches students how to be successful at viral marketing? How about getting a job in viral marketing? Not much of a stretch there…
Oh and the point about not putting all your eggs in one basket? Are you trying to say you should never attempt anything because you might not succeed? Good life lessons all around.
While there are many legitimate issues one could have with the course lampooned in this post (such as the commercialisation of what is intended to be a social medium), both you and the commenters manage to articluate none of them. Congrats.
I’m sorry if you did have any gems of wisdom that I happened to miss, it is just that it is a hard task to glean what you attempting to say when you yourself have no idea what you are trying to say.
And does no one find it ironic that the this post is preceded by a post entitled “Bad News–Got Expelled from Design School”?
Smiles,
Ian
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//////////Reply by stev
//////////Posted March 13th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
@ian, you mad doggy. you must be the teachers assistant of this class.
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i don’t even know why i’m posting comments. pretty sure that u don’t read them anyways, cuz that’s the only way to stay focused on your goal as a blogger. but i still love it bc satiric marks about other idiots.
viva la hipster runoff!
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This is like a big orgy of idiots fucking each other in the holes where your brains should be… Yall r jus blipsters… a blip on the radar. You Made Andrew Famous hahahhahaha, blog-on bros
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