Lonelygirl on top 10 of youtube
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YouTube, video, star, Internet, NBC, networks, culture, Canadian Press, community, Michael, campaign, amateur, high schooler, bedroom, clips.
Summary:
Declared the invention of the year by Time magazine, the video sharing website had Ohio judges posting their weekly sentencing hearings and spawned countless explosive experiments involving Diet Coke and Mentos candies.
Of course, the pretty high schooler named Bree was eventually revealed to be 19-year-old actress Jessica Lee Rose, who was acting out a scripted plot with two behind-the-scenes producers.
But that strange mutated duality of what's real and what's fiction, what's amateur and what's professional, remains the heart and soul of YouTube, where everybody and nobody is a star.
The video was seen by more than five million viewers before NBC asked YouTube to remove it in February.
Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg's rhymes boosted the hipness of "SNL," but more importantly, it was the first time networks were alerted to their new competition.
3. Political fallout - YouTube, like the Internet in general, has made it a specialty to reveal the gaffes and mistakes of the establishment.
George Allen didn't deserve his fate after a video of him calling a rival campaign staffer "macaca" drew constant clicks on YouTube.
6. Celebrity spy - Michael (Kramer) Richards' racist rant at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood in November would have drawn headlines without YouTube, but would millions have seen it?
A user named Peter who goes by the name geriatric1927 has become one of the biggest and unlikeliest stars of the YouTube community.
9. International compendium - Unlike perhaps anything before, YouTube compiles videos from around the world, making for a truly borderless repository of pop culture.
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