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This is the most successful "viral" marketing campaign since The Blair Witch Project. You bought the "internet rumor." You bought the "they wanted to change it but Samuel L. Jackson insisted on the title." You made your own media and distributed it. You posted about it on the Internet over and over and over.
Because you'll enjoy anything with a detached sense of superiority, you made yourselves part of the strategy. Because black people saying "motherfucker" is funny, and because cheesy horror movies that scare people inferior to you are funny, and because you've been neotenized by pop culture irony into being perpetually 12 years old, you got trolled into the street team for a midnight movie and made some Chads and Brads and Thads in shiny shirts very, very, rich.
You deserve the decoder ring, the glow-in-the-dark badge, and the build-it-yourself clubhouse now. You ate all four hundred boxes of Froot Loops.
Homage to
springheel_jack for the phrase "consumer Stockholm Syndrome," which describes this phenomenon perfectly.
Because you'll enjoy anything with a detached sense of superiority, you made yourselves part of the strategy. Because black people saying "motherfucker" is funny, and because cheesy horror movies that scare people inferior to you are funny, and because you've been neotenized by pop culture irony into being perpetually 12 years old, you got trolled into the street team for a midnight movie and made some Chads and Brads and Thads in shiny shirts very, very, rich.
You deserve the decoder ring, the glow-in-the-dark badge, and the build-it-yourself clubhouse now. You ate all four hundred boxes of Froot Loops.
Homage to
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From:Cynicisms On A Internets
Date: 2006-08-21 09:41 pm (UTC)Listen up people! We need to put a barrier between ourselves and the cynicism!
I sing of Olaf glad and big...
Date: 2006-08-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-21 09:52 pm (UTC)I love how the internet works in waves. The superiority complex of the "in-crowd" declaring whats cool is soon replaced with the superiority complex of the next "in-crowd" that declares that X fad is "like SO OVER AND DONE"
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Date: 2006-08-21 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:54 pm (UTC)That glorious, liquor-drenched night.
Okay, that I buy.
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:01 pm (UTC)Guess I'll be out in the doghouse with my Froot Loops.
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:08 pm (UTC)Honestly, I think you're phrasing this in awfully dire terms; it's a pretty light-hearted thing without a lot of significance.
Respectfully, &c.
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)~M~
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Date: 2006-08-22 01:36 am (UTC)I saw it
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:55 am (UTC)I have no desire to ever see that movie and all my stupid friends are shitting themselves over it.
I am glad to hear that someone whose opinions I respect feels the same way about this snake business.
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Date: 2006-08-22 05:44 am (UTC)I told a friend of mine about this movie, and he said (in Bislama) "Snakes on the plane? Yeah, that would scare me. But centipedes are worse."
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Date: 2006-08-22 06:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-08-22 04:26 pm (UTC)We're all so badass when we're anonymous
Date: 2006-08-22 09:29 pm (UTC)I'll like what I want. I don't like Harold and Kumar, Dude Where's My Car, or you. Because I don't have to. That's what we mean by "taste." I don't have to like everything.
Pretentious means pretending to like what you don't, and needing some justification for liking what you think you shouldn't. I don't like that shit. I find it to be: shit. And I have no guilty pleasures, because there is no taste police. The taste police is in your head, like the dream police.
Go back and read. I didn't say anyone was a PR tool for seeing a movie. The PR tools are the people who've been hyping a movie on the Internet thinking they were all part of some grassroots paradigm-busting Internet participatory media revolution when they were, in fact, at the bottom of an unpaid advertising pyramid scheme.
oh, it'll get worse
Date: 2006-08-22 04:50 pm (UTC)It's coming to helsinki in a artsy film festival, not in wide release...go figure. I guess the movie selection around the world this year is even worse than previously feared.
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Date: 2006-08-22 08:54 pm (UTC)I remember that Onion article, it fits this scenario so well.
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Date: 2006-10-11 12:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 02:56 pm (UTC)Ever notice that starting a comment with "Um," or "uh," makes anyone an instant asshole?
What did you think?
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