Internet CelebrityFrom WhatPort80 An Internet celebrity is an unemployed person, often a student, who is widely known among the members of an e-subculture or clique. The term itself is a misnomer because people who use the internet are not popular IRL. Most Internet celebrities have more people on their LiveJournal friends list than anyone else, and it is to these vaunted heights of e-fame that all self-respecting comment or attention seekers aspire. E-FameIf you can't get famous in real life, your only alternative is to be an attention seeker engaging in shameless self promotion until you achieve the fine heights of e-fame, a celebrity in the electronic alternative reality that is teh internets. Marks of e-fame include having more people on your LiveJournal Friendslist than anyone else, having your posts featured on LJ Drama, and of course having your own entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Also, crying over Britney is highly recommended. How to Become an Internet Celebrity
How to Maintain E-Fame "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- WarGames There are about as many ways to win at the internet as there are internets. Here is a partial list:
Also, though it seems paradoxical, sometimes people work towards getting banned from a specific part of teh interWeb. If that's your sorta thing, fine... you win the prize.
Internet Celebrities - MYSPACE EDITIONA MySpace Celebrity is anyone who is well-known on MySpace. Normally but not always, these people have done something amazing to warrant their e-fame. Many are friendwhores, and the rest are just regular sleezy womans. Some go on to exciting careers as singers and actors. Others just fade out in time and are replaced by the next barely legal sleezy woman that figures out how to use a key board.
Notable Internet Celebrities
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