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YouTube Users Attend First Official Get-Together
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."
Activities at the party included lip-syncing to crappy songs, doing dangerous stunts, dropping mentos into diet coke, and trading bad SNL sketches.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
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?
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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
Here's the link to Ben Going' videos, mentioned in the article but not linked.
Oh.