15 minutes of fame

Everyone who is in the entertainment industry will do everything to make themselves lots of money quickly and easily (who wouldn’t anyway?) and most of them want to make their way into fame in a fast and easy way without too much effort. And what better way is there to achive this than going into the genre of reality tv*? That’s right. This genre is the fastes and easiest way into achiving your 15 minutes of fame. Some of these people are even so “lucky” to be able to stay in the industry for much longer than what they should*, and yet these kind of people with absolutely no talents at all get to pollute our young ones into believing that’s the way towards becoming someone. Seriously, wtf is wrong with people these days?

I don’t know if those who participate in this shows really are stupid, or if it’s just a role they’re forced to play in order to even be accepted in the show, but some of them don’t seem like having too many braincells to use*. I don’t even think I wanna know why people want to do this, but I certainly hope that one day whatever illness those people are hit of will be cured and everyone can live their life without being forced to get dumber by some shitty programs where most of the programs won’t last many seasons anyway.

Another thing I don’t get about those who are willing to humiliate themselves on public tv, is the fact that they don’t think about how it might affect their lives when they become older. Of course I hope for many of them to be smart enough to either currently be going through some kind of education or that they at least have sometime ealier in their lives. That is because who wants to pay to someone who can’t do anything else than being an entertaining for everyone else from time to time?*

And for the name of this “genre”, how can it be anything from reality or have anything to do with reality and real life? I mean it’s hard to look at these shows and not asking yourself “Is this really what real life looks like?” Of course it isn’t. It’s just what the industry and all the companies in the industry want you to see. But I still hope that whoever gets popular this way will be forgotten like anyone else who gets their 15 minutes of fame, so that everyone can live their normal lives doing whatever they do for a living without fearing for their own sanity, and for other peoples’ sanity as well.

*(What this type of entertainment is called may differ from differet languages)

*(Trust me. There really do exist those who don’t deserve more than just their 15 minutes.)

*(Just take a look at shows like “Jersey Shore“, and you’ll know what I mean. (Just look at the relevant picture above))

*(Hint: Some countries have a welfaresystem that pays for those who can’t make enough money on their own)

By now you’ve probably already heard about the internet phenomenon called Harlem Shake. Unless you live in a cave where the internet limits you from using sites like youtube. Simply the Harlem Shake is just a bunch of people dancing like they were on some sort of a crazy trip from using drugs. The videos are even the same except from a few obvious differences. Like it wasn’t enough that people all around the world have been dancing Gangnam style since last summer, this becomes a great hit. We also had the ketchupsong (or whatever it was called) and the Magerena, not necersarily in that order though, and yet even more weird viral dances become a phenomenon on the internet. One can only guess what the next thing will be.

This is of course not the only example(s) of meaningless shit (some of it might be quite good actually) that has gained fame on the interwebs in almost no time. Let’s take the great example. Most people are familiar with the trololol song by the Russian singer Eduard Khil. I’m certain that most people outside of Russia probably wouldn’t even have heard of this guy if it wasn’t because of this song. Does that sound familar? That’s right. It’s almost the same story with the fame that the Korean singer Psy got when he made his famous song Gangnam Style.

But why does people even keep jumping on this wagon? I it because they’re bored and without a life, or because they want to say “Look at me. I want to be famous too” or what? I’d go for both. It’s no wonder it doesn’t require much to become famous pretty quickly these days. Soon everyone would probably have their name engraved in a star in a walkstreet somewhere in the world. Maybe this will be the future for everyone? I certainly don’t hope that would be the case. Or at least it won’t be as long as I live, because at that time we’d all be doomed and humanity might as well be completely extingt a few years later. But hopefully most of these phenomenons will be forgotten again in a few years, and those who jump on the bandwagons will be living their same old boring lives working at McDonalds or Burger King or whatever they do for a living, so everyone else won’t have to worry too much for their own sanity or the sanity of any other normal person for that matter.

This and many other popular shit is apparently what most of the entertainment industry is made of. But who wouldn’t want to be seen or heard by other people and maybe also reconized? But thank God for the fact that most of these people won’t last much longer than their 15 minutes of fame they get.