Fame, Just a Click Away

In the past decade, we have seen more people become famous than in the last 100 years. What do we have to thank? YouTube. Thanks to YouTube, otherwise unpopular and ostracized people can get their time in the limelight. All you have to do is be yourself. If you are weird enough, the online community will find you and capitalize on your eccentricities. I don't know how the trend began, but it seems people have an obsession with viewing people more 'weird' than they are. Whether this enforces the viewers' self-confidence or just brightens their day, these internet sensations make up a large majority or YouTube views. The amazing part is the authors' willingness to continue video production. You would think the myriad negative comments would discourage their efforts...but no such luck.

Users like Dax Flame gain hundreds of thousands of subscribers that love seeing his take on life. Note that this user, real name Bernice Jauch, is a paid actor who understands all of what Im saying. He knows he will get millions of views for being different and he is making money off of that. So, now that you have the know-how, conjure up some personal oddities of your own and put em' up for money.

On another note, what makes a celebrity a celebrity? Why do we care to know the personal lives (fictitious or not) of these people? Are they not just like us? They make the same mistakes as us, why is it worse when they do it? Tiger went to sex rehab...but how many other guys are there in a similar situation?? Well the educated person would realize that he went for PR reasons...but the fact remains, why does he care about PR? Its because consumers pay part of his salary...