Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:16 pm
Wow. There's a Wikipedia for it? I don't see why particular webcomics would be banished from it then.Teammayhem wrote:Here's a good place to find out about the star wars kid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_kid
Well, I have to sympathize with the kid. I found the videos to be really stupid, plus, he had to pull out of school and go to a mental hospital. Poor kid.
Anyway, these internet fenomenons spread like mushrooms after the rain. I mean, it seems like there's a new one every week. Every week, some new crap is uploaded on net, and then downloaded in thousands of copies... Usually, it's something very unfunny, like someone making an embarrasment out of himself, being naive or in lack of knowledge. Then I guess people like to laugh at others (so feel superior to them?) more than anything else?
Imagine the worst possible webcomic in the world. Now, I don't think of some comic particulary hate, but something that's worst than every comic that is made so far, worse than anything in HNTRAC archive.
Now, imagine it becaming extremely popular because people like to laugh at how miserable and pathetic it's author is. Wouldn't it bother all of you, as comic authors?
I personally like when stuff like Weeble stuff or Jabjab became fenomenons, because that's something with effort put in it.
True that, I know of several cases of rough breaking privacy here.Raza reportedly suffered considerable embarrassment, in part because the video showed him to be somewhat overweight and not particularly athletic or graceful. The case raised important privacy issues and was extensively reported in mainstream news media worldwide, including the New York Times and CBS News and BBC News.
Recently a guy was tricked by some girl he fancied for a long time, to strip bare in front of her in his dorm room. Then she run away, and his roommate (who set the entire prank) was shooting all of that with a hidden webcam. Happened in a dorm near my place.
Now, it was enough to give this film to one or two people, with geometrical progression it spreaded all over. I was offered to get the movie in several occasions, but I refused to even watch it.
Similar case was somewhere where a boy took his comp to repair and guys from the service found a lot of shoots of his underage girlfriend on hard disc. They saved films for their use and inevitably, it spreaded as fast. There's no doubt that it is underage porn, but was it underage porn before it was distributed?
And, of course, let's not forget about the case of a guy who made several porn movies by using stupidity of "young ofspring actresses".
As far as I know, none of those were distributed over internet (or perhaps they are) but thanks to burning CDs, distribution was insanely fast. Cases of broken privacy, all. Is there anyone to protect the privacy? Maybe somewhere, but not here. Here, they are more concearned to stop the distribution of some pirated movie than of someone's personal life. Which means, again, that money is more important than people. But I digress.
Heh, yeah, but you can't post a link.To be fair, Goatse and Shovelhead will always be funny.
Wait. Can I say "Goatse" here?
My brain has just been saved ^_^