Why Everyone On The Net Wants To Be Famous
February 28, 2010 | 8:58 pm ShareWell, I admit, that statement is an exaggeration. But really, just Google the word “how to be famous” and you have millions of websites and spamsites dedicated to “help you grow famous”.
This post is NOT a guide to teach you how to become a famous person, no, I don’t know how to do that because I’m NOT famous. But here’s an exploration of why being famous can be good.
You should know by now there are plenty of stories to hear on this blog. Here’s another one. ;)
Art, or fart?
My last post on Hyperminimalism Writing had gotten some pretty interesting comments. Many commented that it sounds like a Tweet or how things is nicer to be kept short and simple, but here’s one that caught my attention:
Sounds more like a riddle to me…or…well…the author is just too plain lazy. :p
No deny to that, really. We can’t say that he’s wrong, because to everyone of us with the average eye and mind, it does sound like crap and the author is freaking lazy to come up with crap.
But, lets make an assumption that Bill Gates one day say, “I like Hyperminimalism.” One single word will result in speculation across the net with thousands of tweets and retweets every minute scrutinizing the sentence from head to tail.
The Fountain
Almost one hundred year ago, a man submitted a urinal to an arts exhibition and requested for it to be exhibited. He named the urinal as “The Fountain“, and his rationale behind the artwork is on Dadaism philosophy, which disregards traditional notions of art and calling his Fountain “found art”.
It was rejected.
But that doesn’t stop from it launching Marcel Duchamp into fame. His Dada movement peers were angered by the rejection, and instead of making Marcel a fool of the time, he got famous as an avant-garde which made a major contribution in the 20th century arts movment.
The point is, if Duchamp did not have the network of friends and the level of fame he has around his friends at the art scene as a Post-Impressionist artist, he would not have survived the attack as he would be so lack of supporters. With a bit of fame and networking, it’s different.
You know what an editorial said about why Duchamp’s The Fountain is so important?
“Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.”
Well, let’s not care about how that contributes to the art scene and how is that affecting the art philosophy today.
Our focus here is Duchamp’s fame: if it wasn’t because of Duchamp’s fame before, nobody could have given a shit about what he did, let alone defend Duchamp’s feats. Enough said.
So, do you want to be famous now?
Or do you already want to be famous? ;)
Today if you have a very famous blog or Tweet, you are pretty much guaranteed a good living from all the advertising offers or endorsements or free iPhones and Nexus One being given out for you to test. Not to mention you’ll probably have a few thousand followers watching your back, tweeting (pun intended) about your good moves and clattering about your bad ones.
Famous Spiderman quote, “With great power comes great responsibility.” But oh, power is something so hard to resist.
With the Internet and today’s development in social networking, being famous is a matter of strategy, time, and of course, luck. But I am not going to teach you how to, because I am not famous neither, and without the fame and authority whatever I said does not weight as much as what the people at Mashable said. ;)
Do you have anything to say about people trying to be famous? Or what’s your take on today’s fight for fame?
Comments (31)
Himmat Singh
February 28th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Haha….lol….I must admit that I get deluded by the want to be famous every now and again…but they are just long shots I guess
conancat
February 28th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
haha, me too! well being famous definitely has the benefits, but i'd rather just go with the flow and enjoy what i am doing instead ;)
tekkaus
February 28th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I don't wanna be famous bro. I just want my blog to be famous. :p
tekkaus
February 28th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Hey…that's my comment. LOL :D
shakira
February 28th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Lol…. I really do not want to be famous, too old for that.
Have a great week.
hugs
shakira
conancat
February 28th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
aiyar, same same famous lar. xD oso famous wert… and ur blog already famous enough edi :P
conancat
February 28th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
haha… well Susan Boyle never said she's old, why should you? :P have a great week too!
kenwooi
February 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
being famous… hmmm… kinda weird huh? =P
fufu
February 28th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
totally agree “With great power comes great responsibility.” !!
yeah but why we wanna be famous???
ghosty nana
March 1st, 2010 at 2:42 am
As you said, go with the flow and enjoy what we doing. What is the famous when we are not enjoying what we doing
count a
March 1st, 2010 at 9:13 pm
ahhhh…power is so tempting…but fame doesn't mean real power…
JLean
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Checking out ere. =)
Gratitude
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:27 am
Being famous is not a good thing. Fear of the paparazzi taking shots of me skanking in the backseat! lolz
+Ant+
Charles Ravndal
March 4th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Well, i want to be famous because fame can grant me immortality in a sense. My name written in history can last forever!
ericleeh
March 4th, 2010 at 5:43 am
haha it is true that almost everyone wanna be famous…as u can see in my blog's cbox….so many just drop in my blog and write there only…dun even read my post…why i know? because i written in my post that i dislike ppl like that and they still are not aware of it…LOL XD
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:54 am
yep, i guess the trick is to be famous in what you enjoy to do! ;)
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:54 am
because being famous brings in $$$$! <3 xD
dhar
March 7th, 2010 at 2:31 am
Fame brings a lot of problems actually :)
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:55 am
fame doesn't mean real power… but what is real power? :)
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:55 am
hehe, thanks for checking out!
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:55 am
lol, i thought you already have paparazzis following your tail every day already! :P
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:56 am
hehe yep, that's one of the good things too! :D
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:57 am
lol yeah lar, i really sien people who just drop by and say "dropped by!" or "nang me plz!" thats why i don't have a cbox on my blog. :P and yea, apparently some people dun read blog posts nowadays lulz
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:57 am
yep, so it depends on how you weight the pros and cons ;)
conancat
March 7th, 2010 at 3:57 am
hmmm, well, you're already famous already anyway :P
CHVoon
March 7th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
i want adv money n i dont want famous.
GarfieldWTF
March 9th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
yeah, u already become so famous now since ur "Kenny Sia VS Ken Wooi" post
:)
GarfieldWTF
March 9th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Famous or not, I don't care.
LOL
what i really care is the traffic that goes to my blog and my other websites.
Why?
Sarcastically, I will say "Hope to earn enough money to cover the cost for the websites"
And with honesty, I my real answer is "Of course I want more traffic lar, want to earn mar! Who put ads in his/her website don't hope to earn!?"
Free Mov
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:53 am
Waugh. Great blog. Found it by accident when I search for famous money power fame. But belive me, I´ll come back to this great blog
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