"Popular Culture No Longer Applies to Me" <http://ia310107.us.archive.org/0/items/punkcast885/88509_art_brut_bad_weekend.mp4>
Get the T-shirt: <http://shirts.earthlingsoft.net/bought/art-brut.html> :-) -josh On 9/25/07, Andrew Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leave Britney alone. > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Jay dedman 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] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
