Jay, I think the most important line in that article is "Dude, you're not funny. So don't try.".
So, for those of us that are not funny or wanting to make absolute idiots of ourselves in our videos, we are destined to always be bridesmaids and never a bride. I'll stick to not being funny, not being popular and keeping my integrity intact. You will have to excuse me now. I have to go and make some cute kitten videos. Thanks David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just read this blog post and came across this paragraph: > http://newteevee.com/2007/09/21/college-humor-pwns-funny/ > > "And for a business, popularity is key, which is why CollegeHumorTV taps > into the rich vein of pop culture to fuel its jokes. "Really clever, > stand-alone sketches don't do that well on the Internet. They're not the > kind of videos that go viral," said Gurewitch. "For us to stay a > money-making business, we need to make sure videos have a lot of > popularity."" > > For some reason it just hit me: > the way to be popular is to make videos about what is happening right now. > So if people are talking about Facebook, make a funny video about Facebook. > This is what talking about, this is what is being searched for online. > This is "popular culture". > This is how to be popular. > I'm a retard for not having really grasped this concept. > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
