Internet celebrities: good or bad?

Comedy Central recently decided to show all South Park episodes online for free. In exchange for a few commercials in the middle of the show you can watch all the episodes for free. It is an upcoming trend that companies give products away for free, and make money on selling advertisements. But I’m not going to talk about giving away free stuff. I want to discuss this week’s episode.

I know what you’re thinking: Indivirtual makes websites and shouldn’t care about TV shows but this week’s episode does concern our line of business. The makers decided to do an episode with a spoof of all the people who got famous on the internet. Andy Warhol once said that in the future everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes; he was right. People like Chris “leave her alone” Crocker and Fat Star wars kid are big hits on Youtube and they're now featuring in this week’s episode. It’s interesting and weird at the same time that people without any form of talent are getting their short moments of fame on Youtube and are becoming famous for no obvious reason. For example:
this guy . He looks like a typical gamer with a personality disorder; however by posting his video on Youtube he now has got over 380.000 hits on Google. Chris Crocker got famous by trying to protect Britney Spears and walked away with his own reality show.

I don’t know if all these internet celebrities are a good or a bad thing, I like to watch these videos, but somehow I’m a bit disappointed by the development of the internet and content created by normal people like you and me. It hasn’t evolved at all and offers the same quality of popular 90’s show “America’s funniest home videos”. And in this business not going forward means going backward.