Just one of those days

And by days I definitely means mornings/nights because it’s 3:27am as I write this. One of those dark times between night and day when I can’t fall asleep and I have a burning desire to fully engross myself in whatever my latest “project” is.

Unfortunately for me, that project is this blog. I don’t really know why exactly I say unfortunately because this is what I wanted after all, but it’s one of those desires that feels. . .  wrong to follow through with. While I want to be a better blogger and chronicle my life in this way, I don’t want to succumb so entirely that I drain myself of all the enthusiasm I had at the beginning of the project and abandon it that much faster.

Well whatever, I’m here now so I might as well write about something. Or NOT write about it as the case may be tonight.

Today.

Whatever.

The meme de jour among YouTube’s Second Generation has been the idea and concept of fame and how we as individuals fail or succeed to accurately classify the famous from the not so famous.

Savannah make a really great blog post and video regarding this subject, and it’s something that I actually want to talk about in video form myself, but it’s also something I want to touch on in this textual format as well because writing is a very different experience than talking. This is, as you should have guessed by now, why I said NOT writing about because while I’m going to write a few metaphorical scribbles here on the blog, the actual meat of my ideas and input on this topic will be in whatever video I manage to make on the subject.

Okay, enough of me being pretentious.

The idea of fame is a very curious one to me, in (very) large part because of my involvement in the YouTube Nerdfighter community. Within Nerdfighteria there are certainly “celebrities,” not entirely unlike more mainstreams celebrities like actors or musicians. Names such as KayleyHyde, Kristina Horner, Hank Green, Shay Carl, or Charlie McDonald. However, there is one very distinct difference that I recognize at the very least in myself and my own perception of these people when compared with mainstream celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, or Britney Spears.

That difference is accessibility.

Someone like Kayley of owlssayhooot is far more accessible to their fans* than someone like Britney because while Kaylay has thousands of followers both on YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter, she does not have SO many that it makes it literally impossible to notice even a single one of them.

It’s the forest/tree problem. You know, where you can’t see the forest because all the trees are in the way? When you’re an international figure who is instantly recognizable in virtually every country on the planet, it becomes just about impossible to know any of the people that are recognizing you because there are just so many of them. However when that group of people is smaller, say in the thousands rather then millions or hundreds rather then thousands, it becomes much more possible to know and connect with people individually.

I think I’m going to leave it there, lest I have nothing whatsoever to talk about in the video I want to make on this subject.

Until next time lovelies,

Cheers!

*As defined by Kristina Horner in this video right here.