I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. She has fame and internet fame that the majority of the world will never achieve. She didn’t just have ‘mad hits’, she had a tribe of tweens who ‘genuinely cared about her and looked up to her as a tastemaker.’ I just want to understand ‘why’ she did it. Why she would ‘throw it all away’?
I am so confused. When Miley first came on the indie scene, she had a lyric that said, ‘She’s just being Miley.’ It’s kinda weird how that cryptic statement is the only way to describe her enigmatic personality. It’s like one day she is tweeting a bunch, then the next day she just says ‘fuck it yall.’ She truly is ‘just being Miley.’
I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters.’
Miley Cyrus made a ‘youtube rap video’ explaining why she deactivated her twitter.
This video demonstrates the tween’s desire for ’something more.’ A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like Miley needed to do something that required a lot more bandwidth to ‘get her message across.’ Choosing to make a ‘yewtewb viddy’ was probably the optimal choice to break free from a limited twitter format. It seems like during this video, we watch a tween ‘break out of her cocoon’ and become a beautiful butterfly. She totally ’shits on’ the identity that she created for herself [via pix, song quotes, musings] and moves forward with her life–a life that belongs 2 her and no1 else.
Miley Cyrus didn’t have a traditional childhood. She was not able to experience social media in a micro-context. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ It’s a shame that she used twitter as a ‘lifestream’ instead of a ‘marketing tool.’ Seems like she could have tinyurled a shitload of tweens to a link to buy her shit in the iTunes.
“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” -Miley Cyrus, 2009
I wonder what the general existential crisis of the modern tween is. What do tweens truly want out of life? I feel like most tweens would be happy with ‘200-500 twitter followers/fb friends’ and feeling ‘important’ in their local high school scene (a $500/month allowance would also make them ‘hella rich’). The perfect tween life probably involves ‘being hella famous’, being a ‘musician’, starring in movies+tv, and having over 1 million followers. I am not sure if the modern tween thinks about ‘life after tweenhood’ or if they will just continue to ‘act like tweens’ well into their 20s, still accidentally identifying with Disney family brands. It’s really a shame that Miley gave up a perfect life on the internet. Hope that she doesn’t ‘isolate’ her fans.
I think that Miley Cyrus wants to ‘appear to be normal.’ She wants to be a tween. I think that tweens want to be Miley Cyrus. It seems like these two entities need 1 another to have an individual identity, but for some reason, both will ‘die trying’ to be the other. Seems tragic. Almost as traggy as ‘giving up’ 2 million followers. I feel like she should have at least ‘auctioned off her account’ since tons of companies would value the opportunity to tap into her fan base. Maybe an energy company, or possibly the entire marketing budget of a pay-as-you-go phone service could have used her account to spam out coupons/etc.
Maybe we all want our moments to seem ‘more meaningful.’ Maybe we all need some sort of social tool that is a visual representation of the extent to which we ‘fit in’ with the world. Maybe we need a social tool to document our lives’. Seems like the modern existence is s000 frustrating, since we all have a creative side that needs 2 be unleashed, but we are only given social networks with limited fields to express ourselves. JPG is more meaningful than text. Embedded videos are more meaningful than JPGs. Will Google Wave be the most meaningful communication tool in the history of the world?
(WTF is Google Wave? Have heard mad hype about it. Seems like I should want it, kinda like a Wii/iPhone/etc. Not sure what it is, but I have read it will ‘change the way the internet works’. Does n e 1 know if Miley is on GoogWave?)
Need 2 express myself on my own terms, on and off the internet.
Just want to be the ‘ultimate artist.’ Just want to ’seem interesting’ to people. Want to feel ‘transcendent.’ Want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences. Does n e 1 know how I can accomplish all of this? Will deactivating my twitter/facebook help me accomplish this, or will it make it more difficult for me to experience a meaningful life?
Just want to be an individual
and let the world know that I am an individual
(I am me)
(I am me)
But don’t want to let the world know too much
and dilute the meaningfulness of my life
Just want to ‘be a kid’
Just want to ‘be a tween girl’
experiment with boys, feelings, and padded bras
want my tits to look ‘huge’ but also maintain my social and sexual innocence
Want to tweet
Want to vlog
Want to blog
Want to be a ‘musician’ and write lyrics that appeal 2 a universal zeitgeist
Maybe there’s a lil bit of tween inside of all of us.
Should I ‘off myself’ on the internet?
Do people who deactivate internet profiles always ‘just come back’ cuz they are lonely and tortured?
R u kewler on the internet or in real life?
Should I stop blogging and start vlogging rap songs?
Will tweens ’sit on their asses and tweet all day’?
Will tweens revolt against the internet when they turn 18 and make a more significant contribution to mankind than Generation Y?
Previous ‘Celebs on Twitter’ Coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/04/in-pursuit-of-being-the-ultimate-bro-the-life-goal-of-ashton-kutcher.html
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//////////Reply by a_nonnie_muss
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 11:07 am
@heyo, curse you
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//////////Reply by James
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@a_nonnie_muss,
only replying to stay on top so people will see it, sorry.
i’m getting pretty bored with Carles’ tweets lately. this is too many days old, and has nothing to do with a lot of what HRO used to stand for / blog about.
i would stop visiting HRO to protest but im too small to make a difference, plus i couldnt continue to reply with hate, lol, which im doing now.
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//////////Reply by Z
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
@James, start a trending topic [via #boycottcarles] or just stfu
//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@heyo, want to bang MC so bad
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@melbourne, yall think she’s dtf?
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//////////Reply by yessum
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
@melbourne,
with tits like that, she better be
//////////Reply by dwight
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
@heyo, NICE POST CRLS
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SUP YALL
SHOULD HAVE TAKEN ACID WITH YALL
IS THIS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT YALL
INFLUENTIAL BLOGGER ‘ALTS’ CONTROLLING YOUR CULTURAL TASTE IN THE NAME OF PERFORMANCE ART?
8.6 FOR A LO-FI ENEMA ON CASSETTE TAPE.
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//////////Reply by gnar sesh
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@kevbro, dangyo an enema?
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//////////Reply by Neon Looney Tunes
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
@kevbro, Neon indian tonight and that niggas still on twitta even tho he doesn’t even have 1k followers
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//////////Reply by kevbro
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
i want to kill myself.
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//////////Reply by yea
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 2:06 am
@kevbro, neon indian was a no one b 4! even some lil bob dylan wannabe kid who was a weirdo in my high school new the guy! i remember when neon indian’s identity would be hidden
//////////Reply by yea
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
@Neon Looney Tunes, I don’t give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhCK!
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i don’t know wtf happens here, but she has nice boobs
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//////////Reply by jorge
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
@peet_the_pony,
well said
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//////////Reply by combien
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
@peet_the_pony,
hate miley.
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//////////Reply by anti-tweet_bro
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
@combien, love her bewbs tho =]
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Just beat off to Miley. Love her titties.
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//////////Reply by super pyramids
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 11:28 am
@john anybro, ew bro.
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//////////Reply by c. 9:00am
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 8:57 am
@john anybro, Just ‘rubbed one off’ to Miley.
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I have been social networking sober going on 2+ years and will never be as cool as my myspace personality was. She was a total partie chick who loved going to shows and drinking boozes. I no longer know if my friends ‘truly value’ me via not being on their tops 8’s anymore. Real life is such a snooze.
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//////////Reply by billy
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@remixes are better,
so true
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
@billy, top 8? myspace is sooo weak
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You should really tag this under poetry too, C
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//////////Reply by nins
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
@Jeff, ‘wooa, jeffcolosiino’
is this your post to explain why you came back to the fb profile u tried 2 auctionoff?
2bad we cannt b fvlle neighbors, wanted to see the order in which you would go for the ribbons
your new song is pretty good, glad you’re sticking with the ’sound project’ format. maybe if there is a bad hurricane season this year, you could put a tsunam hidden track on your full length album.
best,
n
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I think something like Facebook doesn’t really do no harm even though its “gay.” Social networking sites are great for teenagers, girls who take 20+ photos of themselves whose about me is their boyfriend, and for bands/djs who are never going to make it [via washed up marketing of myspace] if anybody still uses that horrendous thing. totally lol’d on your insight of google wave. Probably is hype.
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fist
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i’m ’so bored’…
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//////////Reply by siesie
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 5:25 am
@the fink, yeeeee
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that rap was great. the background girls just headboppin 2gether
if u wont post wtf is bathroom girls, tuggin to miley is fine w/ me
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this slut needs to make a sex tape pronto
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//////////Reply by wisp
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
@no fish today, only a matter of time
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//////////Reply by dude
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
@no fish today, feel like i haven’t been ‘this stoked’ since the olsen twins countdown site [via internet 1.0]
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//////////Reply by no fish today
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
@dude, 5 yrs later and we still haven’t seen their chimichangas
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i nvr used to have a tweet-er. but i got myspace and studivz and everything.
the saying of the tween is a mngfl MEME.
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WHERE THE FUCK did she tape that ytb-video?! in her shower/plane/studio/backstage/choose.your.own.response??????
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had to pause my little feat just to watch that crappeh tweenrap. fmil! without miley my internet life is not worth living nemorez. feel like i should ‘off’ my internet ’self’ with a knife on the 21st. yall have a happy october
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‘profundity’ a poem by buttercup mcgillicuddy
hand grenades seem fun
does a psychological dependence on ‘technology’ turn a person into a cyborg
i solemnly swear never to do meth/crack/heroin/sodomy/prescription pills
what is the significance of excluding yourself from what a ’substantial’ number of people feel positive about
is carles buttercup? is buttercup carles? what is the dichotomy here?
tao lin is carles
negotiating payment terms with a hooker via blackberry right now
listening to ‘psychic chasms’ for the umpteenth time
is this an advertisement
this is an advertisement
i need more friends
be my friends
hate me
don’t hate me
i’ll be waiting beside the phone/waiting for you
just ’stroked’ my testicle a little
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//////////Reply by dude
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
@buttercup mcgillicuddy, so deep…
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//////////Reply by pastynig
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 12:11 am
@buttercup mcgillicuddy, remember when someone called you a tao lin knock off?
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oooo my god. oououooou. omg omg omgizzz.
just jerked off to this. still super horny. am gonna wait 3 minutes then jerk off again to this. HELL YEA!!
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‘music’ is over. glad.
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lmao, “miley entered the indie scene” i love you carles
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//////////Reply by broke
//////////Posted October 14th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@Faisal, that was the best bit in the whole post, not that the rest wasn’t wonderful.
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Top notch blogging Car-Carz
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maybe millie cirius is a daftpunkbros
is deactivating your tweeter account alt????!!!!
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//////////Reply by siesie
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 5:28 am
@DVNOs, naw coz i b followin carles n bebe zeevy n even the p4ks.
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there are many internet theorists that say this coudl virtually b the end of the internetz as we know it. some smart guy said that miley devactorating her acount has led to a butterflies effect of a bunch of other ppl getting rid of their accounts as well. sudeenly its not cool to has twitters accounts. The smart guy went on 2 say that maybe the backlash will b so strong that it will once again be uncool to go on the internet like back in 1999 or 2000. frankly i am scared. i hope i can stay cool and look at pictures on the net.
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finally can reactivate my twitr
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[deleted huge comment where i complained about my life and felt sorry for myself in general]
<3 u HRO
next person to comment owes me a blowie
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//////////Reply by Simple
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
@aw, fukk, http://bjbattle.com/
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miley has the nicest tits
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Is Miley Cyrus going to collaborate with Neon Indian (via alt bros garnering 8.6 on p4k helping a chick lacking knowledge in the alt sphere making music that is not shitty)?
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nice sides boob
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I was thinking about what the authentic alt of the current tweenagers will be like. This talk of people deactivating social media stuff is really great… alt will exit the internets and return to actual physical community and whatnot. This is already happening and hopefully will continue. Return to zines, cassette trading, vinyl, etc. A reaction against myspace, mp3s, and whatnot. You already see that sort of thing with hypnagogic pop, neon primitivism (via The Smell, Neon Indian bro, Ducktails, Pocahaunted, Sun Araw, etc etc etc). Gen X’s children might be really cool and into meaningful electro noise conceptual chill harshness or something. I don’t know. I bet they will be political and scary looking, because current alts are chubby/feyish skinny and tweeish still, and into lame Obama mainstream politics. Anyways. Alt is continual reactionism to formely alt stuff that’s become mnstrm. The most alt thing for kids to do who have grown up completely in the internet is to leave it.
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//////////Reply by siesie
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 5:30 am
@andrew, i dig. u sound like a ‘down to earth’ bro.
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//////////Reply by Friend
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 7:07 am
@andrew,
digging ur vibes. great comment.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
@andrew, doesn’t miley, as a major mainstream ‘pop sensation’, leaving the internet make it rly mainstream to leave the internet?
if she hadnt done that, it would still be alt
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Oh yeah I’ve already deactivated facebook, lameishly signed up again for myspace for my conceptual-core project, and am debating to stop reading this blog and others like it. Input anyone?
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
@andrew, sounds like ur ‘moving backwards’
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//////////Reply by andrew
//////////Posted October 15th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
@b4hc,
oh man that could be the case.
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
@andrew, i deactivated my facebook for about 6 months. it was ’so sick’ at first, you wake up every mornin and you dont even open safari and u just sort of like, never even sit down between gettin out of slumber and bein at class, and then people start talkin about facebook shit and you realize half the conversation among your peers happens via internet and then you graduate and you need their facebook hookup because youll never see them for a long time, so unless youre hot shit and can stay off your comp then dotnt do it cause youll look like a tottal pussy’ when you come back
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I’m already gone, I just stopped by to remind you.
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why do you post this jailbait nonsense? are you trying to turn me into a pervert?
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best post i’ve read of yours. brilliant. keep it up bro
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aright crls. time to burry this post.
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In that first pic, it looks like Miley’s balding haha
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tugz
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dunno, i think she well ‘auctioned off her account’
talked about starbucks the whole time
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All I wanna do is party and bullshit in the USA
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how come a bajillion dollar “artist” uses garageband loops?
can i get a hell yeah?
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