Meme Me

Those ubiquitous posts the internet version of a cartoon from the Sunday paper (back when they were a thing), the picture with the funny text that isn't all that funny that gets shared and "stolen". The Meme. Most of them have a lifespan of about 3 hours. 

After that, they turn into most things on the internet, disposable content. In this episode Ric delves into the concept. Did you know there are some legal ramifications to the genre of the meme? 

Also, Ric has a rundown of all the things he's involved in plus a new Drinking with Dead People and another YouTube show drops this week.

NEXT WEEK: The Rock & Roll Biopic

 

Disliking The Like

Instagram is starting a new thing globally where they are going to hide the number of likes a post gets from it's audience. To be clear, if you make a post, you will see how many likes your post gets. However, your public will not. Which begs the question, what is the value of a like, anyway? In this episode, Ric takes a look at how this may affect the internet famous.

The influencers are kind of freaked about this turn of events. To which the rest of the world seems to not really care. This new idea also seems to re-visit the notion of the overall intrinsic value of social media from a person's point of view. The keyboard cowboys will most certainly be offended anyway since these are the people who look for any reason to be offended. Plus, Ric's unpopular thought of the week.



NEXT WEEK: Ok, Boomer.

Things Fall Apart

Aside from being the title of a great book, this episode is in reference to what seems to be happening among the internet famous. They are falling apart in a very public way. Frankly, I am amused. But the reality is they are having a real crisis because the pressures of show business being what they are. They are complaining about the difficulties of creating valid content on a weekly basis and their incessant quest for more likes and validation from their public. Not to mention the negative responses from people which the internet famous call "hurtful". Tough shit, bitch.

Plus music from Low Society.



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NEXT WEEK: That Guy. Plus music from Every Mother's Nightmare.

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Buying Ones Friends

It is something I encounter from time to time. To increase one's stature in social media, you should have a lot of friends and followers. Makes sense. There are several people I know (here in Memphis) who went from having a couple hundred followers in Twitter and then, BOOM! Overnight, there are some 20,000 followers.

How did that happen and who are these people?

They are fake. And there is a very simple way of figuring it out.

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NEXT WEEK: How is it we are all connected yet there is nothing new being talked about? Plus music from Rachel Wise.

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The Scourge of The Internet Famous

There are some pretty remarkable things out here on the internet. Take YouTube, for example. There is veritable cornucopia of "entertaining" people just on that one site. Notice how I wrote "entertaining" there? It's in quotes. I did that because these people consider themselves to be "entertainers". Sadly, they are not.

Like anything else out there in the world, there is no real shortcut to success. It takes an incredible amount of hard work and effort to become something. Show business is no exception. You have to use your natural abilities along with proper training to do anything well.

But I have a question. Since when did a video of a guy microwaving a piece of bread become so damn popular?

Plus, music from Every Mother's Nightmare.


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 NEXT WEEK: Pay for play. It's everywhere and music from Heels.

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Everybody's Everything

One of the great things about the internet is the power it has given all of us. It has leveled the playing field and now everybody can say anything they want. This is great. Except when it's not.

Despite the fact most people misuse this power by posting videos of cats and boobies, it has allowed us all to have a voice. If you speak to one person now, you are basically speaking to one thousand. Everyone can now sway the public in one direction or the other on an almost instant basis.

Plus, music from Heather Bond.



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NEXT WEEK: Conversational Hand Grenades and music from Pengea.

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