Hey Y’all,
A member of our twitter/tumblr family is going through a really tough time and needs our help.
IGotYourCrazy http://www.iamigotyourcrazy.com/ is dealing with too many medical problems to count and because of that is unable to work. Her family is not helping her out, but I feel sure that her internet family will.
I’m having some financial set-backs of my own, but it’s nothing compared to what she is going through. Because of all her medical issues, and being unable to work, the bills are piling up. If we could all donate just a few dollars that really would add up and make a huge difference!
If every one of IGotYourCrazy’s twitter followers donated just $1 that’d be over $2,000 right there. http://twitter.com/igotyourcrazy
All of us that have followed her on twitter and tumblr the past several months have seen the hell she has had to deal with, and have also seen what a wonderful person she is.
Please give from your hearts. Let’s get our friend some help!
Go to www.paypal.com , click on send money and send what you can, even if it’s $1 to atigotyourcrazy@gmail.com
Reblog and re-tweet this like crazy.
There are a lot of funny people from twitter in my city this weekend. I think I’ll go drink with them and laugh with them and talk about poop with them. Because that’s what people from the Internet do.
I’ve been out of the loop the last month or so, so I hope I haven’t forgotten how to namedrop a bad meme.
See, guys. This is why we can’t have nice things. Because then @textism takes them away and puts us in time out.
I might not be the funniest, or cleverest, of Twitterers. But as someone who appreciates Twitter’s unique forum for this odd sort of artistic expression, I feel strongly that up-front attribution is often essential to the context of the humor. Some people might just not care, and that’s completely fine. Honestly. But, well….I actually don’t want my tweets to be anonymous. Not at any stage of the game. Not without my permission.
Does that mean I’m afraid a joke I try to make won’t be able to stand on its own, anonymously? Not as far as I’m concerned: my ‘tweets’ are at their essence comprised of my icon, my username and a collection of <140 characters. As it works for now, that’s something I can absolutely assume is the case, each and every time. Whether I need it or not, I happen to want the context, and I craft the vast majority of my tweets accordingly. For me, that tiny, complete package is what stands on its own. If part of that package is missing, and then only a portion of that is broadcast elsewhere by another entity, it’s simply not the content as I’d intended it to be, and assumed it would.
Even though Anna picks on me for often spending days or even weeks crafting tweets until they’re just right, it really is something I enjoy doing as a tiny form of art, as it is for many of you reading this. And, as strange as it might sound to others, crafting funny tweets is a creative format I can take pretty seriously. I care about what I’m making, even if it’s something absurd about Lady Gaga or whatever his name is. And since I’m the one creating content, whatever the form, that means I also care about how it’s disseminated.
In using Twitter (or Brizzly, or something something pick your favorite Twitter-viewing client), I have an assumption, at the very least, that my username (@jasonpermenter) will be right there next to whatever comment I make, and, in most cases, I have an assumption that a little photo of me with glasses on, looking all serious even though I’m really never that serious, will be right there to give a tiny boost of silliness to my words. I’d argue even powerhouse Twitter funnyman @fireland would be a good deal less funny if his little icon were a picture of him making a funny face with his tongue sticking out. One of Zaius13’s tweets, for example, would absolutely not be the same sort of funny if you saw it on Bailey’s feed. And vice versa. Because those voices, those icons, and those contexts are intrinsic parts of the packages they’re creating. I happen to think that’s important. I’m just suggesting that the merits of a tweet/joke standing on its own is just… well, it’s actually not how all forms of joking work.
So I’ve sat back and I’ve read. I’ve read and read and read and read about what you guys think about stars and who writes what and favstar and favrd and all that jazz.
And I tried to keep my mouth shut. Because compared to most of you, I’m less funny and more importantly, the new kid in class as far as Twitter humor is concerned.
But this just made me want to speak my mind. Because at the core, this is a great post and a great way to juggle all of this star drama that has come up in the last 24 hours. On one had, let’s face facts: the people that get the most stars are not the funniest or the most clever. I’m not going to name names, because there’s no need to call anybody out, but there are people on here who get stars because of who they are, not what they say. Somebody who gets 10-15 a stars could have his or her tweets written by somebody who is on the leader board 5 times a day, and they would still get 10-15 stars.
That’s just human nature. That is the way it goes. When anything becomes popular, it ultimately becomes a popularity contest amongst the people who are apart of it. Every aspect in pop culture has a triangle structure. And while the people or things at the top of that triangle may not be “the best,” so to speak, but they are at the top and it takes a lot to dethrone them.
There are people on twitter who star things without reading them, simply because so and so wrote it and they want to get noticed. And as selfish as this might be, it is human nature to want to be accepted by your peers; whether it’s a coworker or a social group or a circle of funny and clever people that you don’t even know in real life.
But as far as Favit is concerned, the “anonymity” feature hurts the magic that makes stars so fun to begin with. Because everybody that you follow has a personality. You read them and whether you want to admit it or not, in your head, you read them in a distinguished voice that you have created especially for them. It is this personality and this internal voice that makes our favorite people on twitter who they are and why they are our favorite to begin with. As it pertains to those of us who read tweets and give stars based on clever or funny thoughts, the anonymity feature is a kick to the mouth and ruins some of the fun.
Unfortunately, those who don’t play by the rules and “star just to star” have caused things like this to be necessary.
After all of this star talk today, I just want to pass this along. Because, you know, heroes in a half shell and all that.
Just reading the tumblr of Internet people I don’t know at 3:20 in the morning.
“Hipsters Ruin Everything.”
This song will be stuck in your head immediately. This song is by Richmond’s own Meade Skelton, who is, unbelievably, not a joke…though many believe he is doing like a Flight of the Conchords-type schtick. He is not.
While you’re on his page, check out “Sweet Tea.”
Totally agree with Jeph here. Impossible to get out of your head. This guy is going to be famous one day.
Oh great. Just what I need. Another way to get to know you Internet fuckers.
Please excuse the mess while I figure out how to use this thing.
