Heya playas, this episode of The Josh Speaks
is dedicated to three men that helped shape
this generations sense of humor, science,
and ghostbusting.
Bill Cosby, Bill Nye and Bill Murray you three
will be missed.
For all the great achieve...
It's fake?
It's fake?!
IT'S FAKE!!!!
Why is it so much fun to kill celebrities?
Hey, for the longest time I did it too.
Tom Hanks was constantly dying in a fatal
hot air balloon accident at Mount Rushmore
and Kenan Thompson would repeatedly die in
submarine explorations down to discover more
information about the Titanic.
But this isn't what I mean by killing off
celebrities, they really are a dying breed.
Sean Parker, the guy who made Napster and
helped shape Facebook once said that "Privacy
is the new celebrity".
So what does that make of the old celebrities?
Back in the day before people could be famous
for just being famous if you were a celebrity
that meant your work was prized on a mass
scale.
Everybody knew your name.
There wasn't a focus on targeting niche audiences
or developing content strictly for the internet.
As the times have changed, we've become more
intertwined in our connectivity allowing peoples
work too be shared on a mass scale.
So does that mean if you're a popular vlogger
here in the US that you could travel to somewhere
like India and have everyone recognize you?
It wasn't exactly like that for Jenna Marbles
when she traveled there and she's pretty big
on YouTube.
Although the thought of being a micro celebrity
sounds cool, it can really cause problems
in people's lives.
Being a micro celebrity means you have a very
defined target audience that you can engage
with but it can also lead to problems like
it did with Laci Green where she got tons
of death threats for her videos.
Or the most subscribed to person on YouTube
like Ray William Johnson who receives tons
of hate for not attending events like Vidcon
or Playlist Live.
And yet some of the benefits of being an old
form celebrity like Ashton Kutcher and Lindsay
Lohan are totally worth it.
You get notoriety everywhere you go, you receive
paychecks almost 4 to 5 times as big as the
average persons salary and you have a much
bigger audience of fans that are above the
age of 13 to 17.
And yet they still are a dying breed.
More and more attention is shifting to these
niche audiences.
So celebrities that have to ride on the coat
tales of the media are losing because they
do not have that one to one connection with
their audience.
Pretty soon someone is going to write up an
article about Robin Williams plummeting to
his death after a fatal Rocky Mountains accident
and then someone will create a tribute page
to the late and great Robin Williams.
Which will lead to hundreds and thousands
of people liking it and actually believing
he's dead.
So a mass philosophical genocide on old school
celebrities is not going to happen any time
soon but it is definitely the direction we
are heading in.
What's scarce in this world is privacy, the
internet makes that very very clear.
So the less and less a person works to control
their image, the fewer celebrities we are
going to have.
As always guys, love and peace.
Don't believe me?
Go on YouTube and search Rest In Peace Miley
Cyrus and see how many tribute videos come
up.
Hell, I might even make one too.
Rest in Peace Miley Cyrus, we will always
love you.
