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welcome to the suck.
If I see another “Black People on…” post on Tumblr today I’m going to call the Rev. Al Sharpton on you motherfuckers and I don’t even like that guy.
Yes, there tends to be a cultural difference in how certain groups use the internet. How is this newsworthy? Is this not true of pretty much everything that exists in the world?
Get out of my life. This pseudo well-meaning “white fascination” with “how black people use” Facebook or Twitter is akin to people being fascinated by a rare species in its natural habitat. Maybe I should set up an observation room with 4 walls of windows so people can come watch 5 to 7 black youths using Twitter and Facebook on their Sidekicks.
Also, am I not black because I don’t participate in the #uainthittinitright trending topics?
Girl, bye.
Chairbulence trailer (via sparkpriestley76)
Almost three years on and I still bark with laughter whenever I see this.
Is Lucas Cruikshank a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn one of the most brilliant minds of our time?
This video is proof that he is.
This song and music video are about wanting “cash” from his Mom for Christmas, an audacious premiss for someone who is making thousands of dollars a month from YouTube partnership advertising, t-shirt sales, and endorsements, more than likely out earning his parents. But this concept hits home with all his fans, or at least those too young or too stupid to realize how ridiculous him wanting “cash” from his mom is, and bothers everyone else who does realize to the point that they want to tell other people what a little asshole this kid is. Moreover, he recognized the fact that Christmas songs, no matter how terrible they are, will always get play somewhere, something that we are all reminded every Kenny Rogers’ Christmas in America plays (and an Angle gets genital warts).
What do you think? Is Lucas Cruikshank a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn one of the most brilliant minds of our time?
This is very unlikely.
First of all, if an institution like the New York Times were to do this, in the amount of time it would take for people to figure out where they went, or for them to tell people, they would become even more irrelevant than they are now. Not enough people care whether they get their news from the New York Times, a blog repost of the New York Times, or a guy on Twitter that lives in New York.
Second of all, where is the profit? Working with the numbers presented, Microsoft is not going to pay out huge lump sums in the range of $75 million to 10 or so entities, $750 million, in the hopes that all the advertisers already in place on Google move over to Bing.
Now, if Microsoft was to make this same offer to all the major pornography websites, you would see a shift, and the price tag to corner the market on those searches would, no doubt, cost a good deal less than trying to deal with Rupert Murdoch and Fox alone. This seems unlikely too for PR reasons, so Microsoft should probably work on ways to leverage the X-Box Live Network popularity into more Bing searches. This is probably their best chance at gaining market share.
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