The New Emo.

Has anyone else seen the stop emo haircuts video on hedonistica?

Sometimes the internet feels like a caterpillar travelling.

That's how trends move, too. This was also pointed out by chinese journalists back in the 90s, the Gen X, Gen Y, Gen bla branding of young people. I think we have achieved level Z today, in their standards.

Naturally, technology, connection speed and software developement will always create changes.

Webpages with midi music and cute, moving gif animations were the thing. IRC took up most of our internet bandwidth.
Then Frontpage generated Websites with "Personal Bio", "Guestbooks" and "Diary" took over.ICQ's "uh-oh!" was "in". Yahoo! ruled. Hotmail rUlEd.
Blogger, livejournal, diaryland, xanga came into the picture. Google is all-purpose, and it's gmail has 1 GIGABYTE of storage! MSNmessenger, AIM, SKYPE.

Internet attitude has also taken a turn.

Notice, how most of the "blogebrities" like tuckermax, maddox, xiaxue, thebigfuck either have huge egos they can't stop talking/writing about, or hate everything else, or, even more commonly, both?

THAT, is the new emo. No, it's no longer enough just to know big words to express your feelings with. NO.. Depression and suicide is not trendy!!!! God FORBID "artsy fartsy" pictures that have been through photoshop filters.

To be "famous" online, you have to first have flawless english, and good to excellent typing habits. A more than healthy confidence also helps, better if it tetters on narcism, best if it's full blown self centered egoistic. You must be "unique" and have a relatively mindblowingly high level of "intelligence".

You must have fans.

I never realized that this was quite a sad concept, until I chanced upon this dunmanian girl's blog. Her command of language is pretty good, but her life, which she writes about is pretty much that of a 15 year old dunmanian girl. And when she keeps lamenting that her blog is famous because she got plugged by a 'blogebrity' , it gives me the creeps. She uses the word colloquial in her page title, followed by "-understand?" hmm...


I have a 10 KG dictionary sitting on my shelf. You have not? Have not? Huh,huh,huh?