Last Blog of THE YEAR

And with the last blog of this year i would like to say, in the words of Rebecka Black "we so excited!" So it look like you probably have heard of the internet's downfall music video Friday by Rebecka Black.



Thats right a video with 256,529 likes, 1,970,591 dislikes ... one of the most disliked videos and potentially the most disliked video on the internet. Will all this hate launch a young womans singing Career? At first my own options would say no.. and i too was one of the many who disliked her video as well but then i saw this:

Which Seat Should I Take? w/ Rebecca Black from Rebecca Black

Which is a video she made with Funny or Die which is a satire of her own song. She gained a lot of respect by poking fun at here song and it shows as the 500k funnies she received for doing this video. Unlike most internet hate she seemed to turn this video in to a viable career launcher. As it turns out she has another cd coming out in the future and the song launched this as well:



A colaberation between Jimmy Falen and Stephen Colbert who actualy make the video Friday sound good. Yet another outlet for potential fan creating material for Rebecka Black. Perhaps people should look in to trolling for a viable marketing scheme.

Speeeeeed

The conversation in class today trended toward the increased thoughtlessness that the internet seems to entice in people on the internet. Though, i believe, this is a time dilation of sorts that is created by the quantity of users who want to make comments. In years past there wasnt the community size that exist now and thus comments would come slower and in these years the internet has increased in user volume. Comments come faster and faster.

Rushkoff, makes the argument that the internet causes a feeling of haste in our lives and causes poor comments such as YouTube comments. I would counter this argument saying that its the surrounding ie the websites that cause poor commenting. YouTube has notoriously bad comments that are in poor taste, but when you look at what YouTube is a collection of mainly dumb videos of people hurting them selves and cats you get equivalently retarded comments. When you visit a more intellectuality based website such as a professional blog you tend to get much more thought our comments that address the blog post and have proper articulation of thoughts. In another spectrum you see comments on reddit, where there is a voting policy on comments, and a constant rise of more intelligent comments because they are more popular.

Anther interesting point was brought up in class that pertained to this topic and that was because comments seems to come faster and faster these days, that it becomes harder to comment due to face that the comments are filled up with crap or anything you wanted to say has been said. Which is true to and extent, but i dont think this is a down side to the internet at all. Having great comments such that you cant comment means that the piece is complete and is perfect in such a way that you cant comment. On the other hand its to be expected that some one who is like you read the article and commented similarly to your self and as Tyler Durden said "you are not a perfect and unique snow flake..." becomes more and more prevent as cultures become more intersecting due to the connectivity of the internet.