SPRING 2011 COM 125: Introduction to the Internet
Blog Entry 9: YouTube Exploits
Social media has become so prevalent these days that people don't just use it to check up on their friends. They use it to become famous... or infamous for that matter. While some individuals really make it BIG on YouTube, others can go hide their heads in a hole for ridicule.
Its amazing how people love to publish their talents, or lack of, on the Internet. Some music artistes have managed to become famous through the use of YouTube.
We will be looking at 2 cases where these YouTube users got famous (or not) just by RANTING: Luan Legacy vs. UCLA girl Alexandra Wallace.
Luan Legacy: (WARNING - Video/s is not for the faint-hearted. Vulgarities are spat out at machine gun rates.) This particular video has more than 360,000 views. Most of Luan's videos have more than 100,000 views per video.
Not bad for JUST talking.
So what made this guy famous? The humor? The squeaky voice? Or the insane talent of not needing to breathe when he talks?
The plus point here: At least, he does not refer to a specific person or group of people when he talks about them.
Now, here we have ex-UCLA student, Alexandra Wallace. A classic case of: INFAMOUS. Wallace posted up her video about 3 weeks ago, talking about Asians in the school library and how they talk so loud that she can't concentrate on her studies. (wow)
This video has more than 485,000 views trailed by tons of critique. As of today, people have made many videos to counter the content of this thoughtless video. (Some of these counters/spoofs have more than a million views. The makers must be really happy.)
Hey, if you want to post up a racist rant, that's your problem. But if you ruin your future because of it, is it really worth it?
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