Wheat Thins Internet Ad Campaign Sucks (also, Nanalew has a purdy mouth.)
Posted: March 5, 2012 Filed under: Art, Commericals, Film, Internet, Women | Tags: Wheat Thin, YouTube Leave a comment »So, I am checking out the site I work for, before going to bed, and I notice a story I hadn’t read or heard about.
I go to see out who had tweeted the story that evening, (I am curious of our audience) and lo and behold, I see a sponsored tweet, purchased in EARLY JANUARY.
I had no idea these sponsored tweets had that long of a shelf life. Seem like a good value, now that I think about it (or so I thought, at the time).
Now this here, is a real reply girl…
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Business, Internet, Women | Tags: algorithm, community guidelines, dailydot, Gaming the system, icklenellierose, Internet Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, meganspeaks, replygirls, social media, tagging, terms of service, YouTube Leave a comment »I’ve been writing about “reply girls,” this YouTube phenom for those that don’t know, for the last couple of days. Which means I’ve been knee-deep in YouTube drama for that entire time.
Yeah, some of you may make fun of me for what my work has become. You snooty business reporters, activists, gardening bloggers, social media consultants! (I sometimes make fun of myself for not keeping up on what my alderman, or Mayor Emanuel is doing. Don’t give me more shit than I already give myself, please…)
Some part of me respects these ladies for figuring out how to game the system in such a short amount of time. It’s ingenious? And my heart goes out to these ladies, for the amount of cyber abuse they are getting now, just because they were able to effectively highlight this flaw (not just in YouTube, but in human nature).
Nothing sadder than a reply girl in a push-up trying to choke back tears for the third day in a row.
This moment, in my research, made me laugh. (You wouldn’t get it if you didn’t know YouTube.)
I saw this video of Nellie McKay on Twitter.
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: Art, Internet, Techology, Women | Tags: Nellie McKay, Online Communities, Twitter Leave a comment »Has my life changed?
I think it might have….
YouTube comments are troublesome.
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Internet, Women | Tags: anonymity, conservatism, gay pride, gender roles, Katy Perry, porn, Satire, women on the internet, YouTube Leave a comment »Yesterday, 107 men had an unwanted gay thought, while watching a hot girl sing hot girl songs.
This unwanted gay thought, in what can only be assumed was a tragedy that befell these poor men, was a symptom of the ”women don’t exist on the Internet” disease.
This time, a x3LilPinnytjuhx3 was directly responsible.
Her username is androgynous. When one reads it, one has to ask, was it just a random smattering of letters? Does LilPinny reference a penis? Or Miss Penny?
There is nothing that directly tells the reader x3LilPinnytjuhx3 is female.
Shame on her.
Her forgetfulness and inability to clearly portray that she is a female on the Internet, had dire consequences yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Birthday, Raquel Welch!
Posted: September 5, 2011 Filed under: Art, Entertainment, Film, Media, Women | Tags: Freddie Mercury, Myra Breckinridge, One Million Years BC, Raquel Welch, YouTube 1 Comment »Yes, I know it is also Freddie Mercury’s birthday. Considering all the digital love he’s gotten (which he deserves, don’t get me wrong, even if he is dead), I thought I’d share with who ever is reading this blog my favorite videos of Welch. If you don’t know who she is, go skim her wikipedia page first please.
These are all found on YouTube, because my new job is to cover YouTube…
I first came upon Rachel Welch, like most of America, when I watched One Million Years B.C. (Starting the Earth’s Children book series in Junior High will do that) It is only fitting that I begin this video list with a compilation of her from One Million Years B.C.
I don’t expect you, dear reader, to watch all of the above video, but I do expect you to watch all of the one below. It’s only 3 minutes long, and while there is no dialog until the very end, I can promise it is engaging. It’s literally one of the best fan compilations on YouTube.
Game of Thrones is one of the most feminist shows on TV
Posted: April 25, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, Media, Women | Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Ginia Bellafante, HBO, Huffington Post, New York Times 1 Comment »
I watched the second episode of Game of Thrones last night, and I was even more pleased with the adaptation of the book than I was last week. After the episode ended though, the first thing I thought about was Ginia Bellafante.
Like most female fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, I was very disappointed in Bellafante’s review of the first episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but I passed off her disregard for the show (and fantasy in general) as part of the same sentiment older women have for video games – the view that fantasy (and video games) are just for children or young males. When Bellafante says she doesn’t know any woman that likes fantasy, I believe her. She is from a time before video games, before the rise of the internet. Bellafante’s culturally learned distaste for the fantasy genre (and most geek culture) is also indicative of her outdated view of gender constructs. Ilana Teitelbaum writes it well in her Dear New York Times: A Game of Thrones is not just for Boys: Read the rest of this entry »
Gamers have an Image Problem
Posted: April 19, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, Media, Techology, video games, Women | Tags: Casual game, Gamer, Games, GameStop, girl gamer, Jane McGonigal, Michael Cera, Mike Fahey, Reality is Broken, Video game 1 Comment »Abstract: This image problem is rooted in a failure by the mainstream media (and film) to treat video games as an
acceptable pastime, making gaming “a dirty word“, and perpetuating the notion that women shouldn’t have authorship over technology around them. The male gaming community is only partially responsible, and this will be discussed in a subsequent post. This post was formulated after analyzing video game coverage by major female-oriented publications and by my personal memory of video game scenes in movies.
“One of the things we were trying to combat with 3G was how girls are discouraged from learning anything about technology beyond how to use it, [not] to be responsible or have a form of authorship with it.” - Terence Hannum, Internship and External Relations Coordinator at Columbia College
Any female in her 20′s that plays video games knows gaming has an image problem. Not only does the community you play in make you feel unwelcome a la the blog ”Fat, Ugly or Slutty“, your parents find your enjoyment of video games off-putting, as do 30-somethings co-workers. I’ve had more than one conversation at slightly older dinner parties become painfully awkward when I mention I like/want to write about video games. The women scan the room and decide it is time to mingle. Then I am left with some guy, and as the silence continues between us, I begin to question his intentions. Sometimes I can see this male have an OMG-GIRL-GAMER-freak-out moment, all in the eyes, and when it abides he hesitantly remarks I must be the male gamer fantasy or some other weird crap. Then I decide it is time to mingle.
My mom keeps thinking I will grow out of my love of video games. She is not impressed when I tell her I am laying down plumbing because my city’s population explosion is forcing me to expand my city limits.
There is a common thread behind these awkward interactions: people born before the 80′s view video games as either a waste of time or a childish hobby. How can that be, when video games have been around for 30 years - and adults now play video games and teachers use video games as part of their curriculum? Read the rest of this entry »
Media Update on the troll Tamtampamela
Posted: March 15, 2011 Filed under: Strange, Women, Media, Internet | Tags: Atheism, Japan, tamtampamela, poe, God, Richard Dawkins, Perez Hilton, Miami New Times, Mary Sue, Urlesque, successful troll, internet trolling, Troll, Encyclopedia Dramatica 2 Comments »
Image by mygothlaundry via Flickr
Ugh. I did not want to update my wordpress again today, because I like having the picture of me interviewing Rahm Emanuel on my front page, but it can’t be helped. I want the world to know (well, potential employers) that I broke the news that tamtampamela was a troll (see my time stamp)… Read the rest of this entry »
White Girl Claims God Answered her Prayers by Striking Japan, Internet Retaliates
Posted: March 15, 2011 Filed under: Techology, Women, Internet | Tags: 4chan, Atheism, Japan, Satire, Tsunami, trolling, sendai earthquake, tamtampamela, pamela foreman, poe, God, Richard Dawkins, Alec Sulkin, Perez Hilton, Vanity Fair, Miami New Times, epic female troll, yeah long troll 15 Comments »… except she just outed herself as a troll around 1am, CST. My headline is misleading, but hopefully you are still reading.
On March 13th, youtube user tamtampamela (identified by the internet as Pamela Foreman) made a video saying the tsunami happened because she prayed for god to prove his existence to atheists, and days later struck Japan. Pam goes on to say she is overjoyed by the magnitude of God’s response, and hopes God will steer his wrath to America soon, since there’s tons of atheists here. The video has approximately half a million views (link is original video, but as of 2am, LaughAloneTV has a copyright claim on it) and tons of hateful comments , including calls for her rape or other forms of violent retribution.
Richard Dawkins’ site linked the video, Scallywag & Vagabond call her “crazy”, Vanity Fair called her response inappropriate (link includes racist UCLA girl), Project Armannd calls her a psychopath (and also links to additional WWII-Karma-on-Japan comments), Miami New Times blog takes a swig at her (and advocates interpretive dance), Perez Hilton claims the video made him sick, and a bunch of bloggers, youtubers and atheist forum users also weigh in on the matter, all outraged.
The internet went on to find Pamela’s “real life” information, and posted her address and phone number all over the internet (but that info might be fake? She might really be named Tamar Boehm?). If one watched more than one of tamtampamela’s other videos, it becomes clear that Pamela is trolling. Some folks on the internet were not astute enough to make this connection, or sought to punish Pamela because you can’t make light of the Japanese earthquakes and tsunami, even if it was to make a point about how the extremely religious believe God works on their behalf against their enemies. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Porn Day kicks off today!
Posted: February 22, 2011 Filed under: Women | Tags: lady porn day, porn for women, rabbit write Leave a comment »Head on over to the fabulous Rabbit Write’s site for more information, including porn links.
