Word: brolsma
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It’s worth remembering that this isn’t always a good quality. American Idol had its William Hung (famous for his incredible dearth of singing talent) and the Internet has, among others, its Gary Brolsma. Gary, a hefty, likable 19 year-old New Jersey suburbanite, recently found himself catapulted into the public consciousness after a video he made of himself lipsynching and dancing along with a Romanian pop tune (he calls the video the “Numa Numa Dance”) met with unexpected popularity on the net. He enjoyed the initial rush...
...Brolsma and for Ciarelli both, the Internet has been much like the Harvard tenure process: a ruthless and uncaring judge. It distributes great fortune in a way that to the eyes of mere mortals often looks plain capricious. I don’t know whether the tenure process is blind to identity—to lineage or gender or whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone?...
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