The internet introduces you to some interesting people. Some of these people are the kinds that you’ll immediately know to avoid if you ever met them in real life. Others are just pretty cool, so you meet up with them. You have your sites like myspace and facebook, then you have your other sites with message boards/forums, chats, and any other type of internet . . . thing . . . where people who have a common interest get together and talk. The internet has been a big part in today’s culture, with things from e-terrorism (which I will most definitely not talk about) to classmates screaming out fads in the middle of class (which I will talk about =))
Being the birthchild of laziness and the internet, I’m probably too inclined to talk about this, but what is on the internet needs to stay on the internet, especially if it’s something like a ‘fad’ or some shit like that.
Example: This is Rickroll. This was made big by a site that will not be named.
When I heard someone singing this just for the fact that it was Rickroll, I wanted to punt babies. The two cultures (internet culture and real life culture, both of which are divided into different kinds of cultures, need to stay separated.)
Xmen 3 used one of these internet fads and made it extremely unfunny and lame.
The original.
The stupid.
A combination of funny and stupid.
3 comments:
Yes the internet has become an unprecedented way to meet and interact with people all around the world. And we have all heard about both the positive scenarios of people meeting each other, such as eharmony, and also the unfortunate scenarios such as stalkers, and creepy old men who look for young children to prey on. But concerning the videos and culture, there is not two different cultures. Culture is not divided into "internet culture and real life culture". Culture changes as the world changes, and the internet is just as much apart of our modern culture as the NFL, Broadway, and Walmart.
To be honest, Rickroll doesn't bother any more than any other type of music. What annoys me is when people put it in youtube videos and then go "lol you just got rickrolled owned". It's not hard to rickroll people, it takes 30 seconds to make a rickroll video in windows movie maker, and takes even less work to get people to click on it.
Amyway, I agree with you on the juggernaut bitch thing. Then again, x3 was pretty crappy, so no big surprise.
I’m sorry Jarrett, but I couldn’t agree with you less on this subject. Right now American is modernizing and is doing so by through a technology era. This new age of computers and Internet has been able to connect people across the world in amazing ways. As I sit in the middle of a lecture on UNC’s campus I can chat online with my friend in Tanzania. Africa! How amazing is that! But along with verbally connecting with someone, the Internet has been able to expand that connection to a cultural level. Internet culture and reality culture are not two different entities because the Internet has now been consumed and morphed into the American culture. This includes music, fashion, language, pastimes. You can not separate the two and they should not be separated because this is one way our diverse nation is able to connect with each other and with other nations. However as far as what bothers you, which I think is annoying YouTube videos, well that seems to be just a pet peeve of yours. If you want to separate Internet culture and “reality” culture well then go a day without mentioning Facebook in a conversation.
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