Word: homestar
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Since then, I have become thoroughly entrenched in Internet pop culture. (I'm pretty sure that half my workday is spent exchanging YouTube videos with co-workers, but don't tell anyone.) There was the Star Wars Kid (2002); Homestar Runner (which I saw in 2003-04); and Tom Cruise's Scientology video (2008). When a friend refused to stop singing "Peanut Butter Jelly Time," I didn't speak to her for three days because whenever I did she would sing it, and the song would get stuck in my head. But that was in 2002, and I haven...
...subject of academic debate over the weekend at the first-ever “ROFLCon,” a convention held at MIT devoted to exploring Internet popular culture. Organized by Tim R. Hwang ’08, the conference featured panel discussions with Internet celebrities such as Homestar Runner, Brad Neely of Super Deluxe, and Drew Curtis of Fark.com. Included among the almost 100 guest speakers at the event was Christian Lander of the blog “Stuff White People Like.” Lander said he is not worried about the spin-offs, such...
...It’s essentially an attempt to bring a bunch of Internet celebrities to come to Harvard to talk about fame (and infamy) online,” Hwang says of the event, which he hopes will bring LOL-mongers like the creators of icanhascheezburger.com and Homestar Runner to Harvard this spring. “In the very least, I found out that buying a flamethrower is fairly expensive, so there’s still some room to be legendary. Stay tuned.” We’ll be sure...
Avid followers of online idiocy, who have spent the last few years of their lives migrating from hotornot.com to Homestar Runner to the Numa Numa dance and beyond, might be unfazed if they heard the Internet characterized as a “dumb” network. The rest of us, though, we discriminating readers of the online edition of The Crimson, we Wikipedians and fans of Google Scholar, might take a bit of offense at such nomenclature.It should come as something of a surprise, then, that creating a dumb network was among the loftiest goals of the founding fathers...
Celebrity you most resemble: Homestar Runner. Or at least, I can do a really good impression of his voice. Sometimes...