As for your first main post... doesn't Mr. William Hung already show us what happens when someone appears on a talent show with mockable talent? We laugh and mock, and the internet seizes it into a twisted form of celebrity.
That's always been interesting to me. Gislain Raza is one of the most interesting examples. Yes, he was mocked, but nerds all over the globe spent hundreds of hours enhancing the video with special effects. It's a weird sort of mockery the internet propagates. If someone "makes the cut", derision is balanced against honour, support, encouragement. If someone doesn't, then their 15 seconds of fame is doomed to become a memetic commodity to be used on YTMND and Something Awful, mainly for the purpose of mocking the NEXT target.
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As for your first main post... doesn't Mr. William Hung already show us what happens when someone appears on a talent show with mockable talent? We laugh and mock, and the internet seizes it into a twisted form of celebrity.
That's always been interesting to me. Gislain Raza is one of the most interesting examples. Yes, he was mocked, but nerds all over the globe spent hundreds of hours enhancing the video with special effects. It's a weird sort of mockery the internet propagates. If someone "makes the cut", derision is balanced against honour, support, encouragement. If someone doesn't, then their 15 seconds of fame is doomed to become a memetic commodity to be used on YTMND and Something Awful, mainly for the purpose of mocking the NEXT target.
It's a weird tribe, innit?
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Yes, it's a weird, weird tribe.
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