Ahhh....YouTube....How on Earth did we manage to stay entertained and amused before being able to just type in our "pop culture drug" of choice. We've all become obsessed with something on YouTube. Remember Dramatic Squirrel? Yeah lots of tears were shed laughing hysterically over that dumb mess.....and let us not forget, the O.G. of YouTube celebrities, Mr Tay Zonday himself......You know you're singing "Chocolate Rain" right now...Yeah I'll admit that I have wasted hours of my time laughing over mind-numbing stuff on YouTube (i.e. the Trololo Song)....who hasn't. But what annoys me is when people become seriously famous and have the ability to build careers from it....Many of which, with no talent, whatsoever and are just popular based on sheer comedic value.
Look at Sweet Brown....You've pretty much lived in a cave if you haven't heard or seen someone say "Aint Nobody Got Time Fo' Dat" and then proceed to chuckle afterwards. The news team must've found the most ratchet, ghetto woman they could find, and interviewed her...thereby setting progress of African-Americans back about 100 years. Needless to say, it went viral, and now this woman is being cast in a Tyler Perry movie. No surprise there, I suppose.
Then there's PSY. I swear I didn't know who this dude was before November 2012. All of a sudden, he's everywhere....on every magazine, awards show, and even Rockin' New Years Eve. "Gangnam Sty" became the most watched video on YouTube, even surpassing fellow YouTube celebrity Justin Beiber's Record for his song "Baby." He officially retired the song (Thank God!) after January 2013, and we haven't really heard much from him since. I told everyone from the beginning that this cat was a flash-in-the-pan, but no one listened....even with that stupid dance that went with the song. Grown, educated folks, looking all kinds of dumb doing that dance....just sad. The most hilarious thing of it all was that no one could really sing the lyrics to this song...Why? Because the whole song was all in KOREAN!! Can anyone tell me what its about?? (Hearing Crickets Chirping). No, of course not. He could have been talking about how much he hates America for all we know...but nonethless, it still sold millions of copies.
So now that I've gotten done with my rant, "What Are Your Views on the Rise of Today's "YouTube Celebrity." Do you think that success is warranted, or not?