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YouTube Users Attend First Official Get-Together

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the haven't-i-seen-you-somewhere-before dept.

An anonymous reader wrote us with a link to News.com's coverage of the first official YouTube get-together. Video aficionados from as far away as Australia descended on the Pier 39 shopping complex in San Francisco to meet and, of course, videotape each other. An estimated 100 some people attended the 'As One' event, which allowed some of the most popular bloggers and video posters to meet their fans. "'I don't have any groupies yet,' said Ben Going when asked whether his Internet fame has changed his life. The 21-year-old waiter from Huntsville, Ala., has a regular YouTube audience that numbers nearly 26,000. Two minutes after making his joke, Going was approached by two red-haired teenagers who asked him for an autograph. Going, known at YouTube as Boh3m3, shrugged at a reporter and appeared simultaneously thrilled and embarrassed. Lowering his hat, the one Going wears in many of his videos, he signed away."

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  1. YouTube users by linvir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's what a realistic YouTube meetup would look like:

    • 5% go as regular people and interact normally
    • 60% go as regular people but will not speak except to tell the first 5% how much they suck
    • The remaining 35% is arrested immediately and taken to Guantanamo Bay for uploading bootleg Daily Shows
    1. Re:YouTube users by Propagandhi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know if you give the 60% credit for the range of feedback they provide.. Often they not only inform the video creator how much the vido creator sucks, but also how much blacks/jews/gays/liberals/conservatives/whatever suck generally.

      Seriously, Youtube comments set new standards for human stupidity... I assume those users don't go to Youtube meetups, but I'd still be wary.

    2. Re:YouTube users by BostonVaulter · · Score: 4, Funny

      yeah, xkcd says it well

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    3. Re:YouTube users by PRC+Banker · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here's the link to Ben Going' videos, mentioned in the article but not linked.

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  2. utube by Football+Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    thats really nerdy imho

  3. conversion ratio by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    'I don't have any groupies yet,' said Ben Going when asked whether his Internet fame has changed his life.

    I wasn't aware that "groupies" were a media metric of success. How many football-fields or Libraries-of-Congress is that equivalent to?

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    1. Re:conversion ratio by markild · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which, in it self, is pretty impressive!

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    2. Re:conversion ratio by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 3, Funny

      Please don't ask how many elephants or Volkwagens to a groupie, YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.

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    3. Re:conversion ratio by ofcourseyouare · · Score: 5, Funny

      But getting groupies -- or, more generally, the ability to have sex with an unfair number of desirable persons -- has been a metric of success since the stone age. One in which the tech revolution has always fallen sadly short. Of course digital media represents a far bigger communications revolution than Rock and Roll, but how does the nightlife of the average deep-tech person compare with that of anyone in a band in the 60s?

      I for one applaud the advent of groupies for youtubers, and can only hope this is a phenomenon which starts speading fast to other persons who are active online -- starting of course with /.ers...

  4. YouTube users.. by biscon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Judging by the usual comments found under a youtube video I wouldn't like to attend that party ;).
    I don't know why but I always have to read the first page of comments.. and then I get sad.

  5. Activitives by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Activities at the party included lip-syncing to crappy songs, doing dangerous stunts, dropping mentos into diet coke, and trading bad SNL sketches.

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    1. Re:Activitives by infonote · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Come on, There is also a lot of good original videos on Youtube. What do you expect, quality of a hollywood film. Why should people strive for perfection. After all it is just a hobby for people who like attention. The revenue sharing model may improve the quality of videos however.

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  6. How is that news by wumpus188 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All they going to find out is that lonegirl15 is not a lone, not a girl and not 15.

  7. "approached by two red-haired teenagers" by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Girls? Boys? One of each?

    If I'm going to be trolling for YouTube groupies, this kind of intel is vital.

    Maybe I should just put 'Freckled redhead girls only' in the credits.

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    1. Re:"approached by two red-haired teenagers" by game+kid · · Score: 2, Informative

      These might be the groupies (sadly).

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  8. I assume they picked Pier 39 because.... by MobileDude · · Score: 2, Funny

    nobody's parent's basement was large enough to host the 100 some freaks in attendance.

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