-Michelle

1) The LisaBot thing was annoying to a lot of people, and “you’d expect better from someone who’s talented and has done well out of YT” seems to be a common sentiment (along with “stop spamming me!”). Perhaps it’s a reflection of how ephemeral web-lebrity fame is that even the “big guns” are scrambling for every possible angle. I have seen some amusingly aware LisaBot spam (weird affirmations, signed off as LisaBot) and the fact that she’s obliquely referencing the Bot tickles me a little. But still, give it a rest.

2) The flip side is that the whole ‘EXPOSE’ thing has become a sour little cottage industry. I think the average YT-er is past the point of being shocked that Lonelygirl might be an actor, or some account might be guerrila marketing for a movie, that someone might be older or younger, or pretending to be something else…. But we’re left with a ‘police force’ of users fixated on the notion that most success is “undeserved” and that someone else deserves it more, even though the “it” is “not what YouTube is supposed to be about…”

This video by MTV funnyguy Andy Milonakis wailing on another self-appointed exposer is a funny take on just how joyless some of the more fake-obsessed end of the YT community have become…