I’ve seen this term tossed around a few times in recent weeks. Who and where, I won’t say.
Internet Famous?
Oh, my word. For real?
Here’s the thing. If you have to qualify your fame by calling yourself “Internet Famous,” you’re not really famous.
Oprah. Famous. Not TV-Talk-Show-Famous.
Micheal Jordan. Again, just famous. Not NBA-Player-Famous.
Justin Bieber. Famous. (However sad and wrong that may be.) Not Teen-Heart-Throb-Singer-Famous.
Real fame doesn’t need to be qualified, because you’re a household name. Everybody who doesn’t live under a rock knows who you are. People in countries other than the one you live in know who you are. People stalk you, and dream about being you, and want a lock of your sweaty hair to put underneath their pillow.
I’m so tired of the drama that goes on in the blog-o-sphere and the Twitterverse. Who’s on what top 50 power list? How much Klout does so and so have? Who got a free refrigerator?
How about who really cares?
So what if you have 50,000 subscribers, and two million hits a month? Do you realize that there are 300 million people in America, and 6.8 billion in the world? Your “huge” subscriber list is like a teeny-tiny crumb on a piece of the whole enormous pie.
Oh, you think I’m just bitter and jealous because I don’t have 50,000 subscribers, do you? Maybe. A little.
But my point is, whether you do or you don’t have a large readership, just get over yourself. Humble yourself. Stop trying to one-up everyone else. Stop trying to validate yourself and what you do with stats. Stop taking yourself so seriously.
Yes, you may be good at what you do. You may be successful in the eyes of your peers. In your circle you may be well known. You may be at the very epicenter of the blog-o-sphere.
But, when you call yourself Internet Famous it just makes me want to laugh at you, and kind of takes away all your credibility. You’re trying too hard to be something you’re not.
Here’s another newsflash. Even if there are 12 million blogs in the world as estimated by Technorati, there are 6.788 billion other people in the world who couldn’t give a flying fig about the size of the number in your FeedBurner widget.
So, please take out that line in your bio about being Internet Famous.
It’s right after the sentence where you call yourself a Social Media Wunderkind.
Ooh! Please dish and name names. I want to blog stalk these so called “Internet Celebrities.” Clearly they want to be stalked. Wait…If they really were celebrities I’d know who they are.
@Amy, Ha! Exactly!
I. Love. This. You have brilliantly said what many of us were thinking. Thank you 🙂
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How about the “internet-famous” people that won’t respond or interact with the “little-bloggers” that provide many of their stats for them. That’s the part that really bugs me.
@Julie, You’re right. Whatever popularity do they do have comes from their fans.
Now I so want names. LOL
This post just made me laugh.
I don’t think I’ve ever known someone who claimed to be Internet famous, but that would be hilarious!
Good job! It is amazing how some people can become so full of themselves! 50,000 subscribers! Geesh… I’d have to work my butt off to get there! I was happy to just hit 100!
Oh… just read your little bio under your pic and loved it!
@Jackie, I know. I’m still amazed that anybody ever reads my blog. I wouldn’t know what to do with 50,000.
Oh my goodness. LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF! I haven’t met anyone that told me they were internet famous yet : ) but I do think it is funny when you go to some sites and you can just tell that they think they are all that and a bag of chips : ) Hilarious.
I think we should all just have a fun time. Meet new people. Post what we want to be remembered. And call it a day : )
After all, at our funerals, chances are, our blogger friends are not going to show up en masse. What really matters? : )
@Life with Kaishon, You hit the nail on head! It should be fun.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
That’s why I stopped reading a lot of blogs. It wasn’t that what they had to say wasn’t valid, but that their ego and pretentiousness overshadowed it.
Sad, but there are still the masses of sheep that will follow these “internet famous” and humor them so there will be no stopping this phenomenon from really occurring.
@Brittany, Yes, there will always be a few out there.
Hehehe… that was a great blog entry!
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AMEN!! I love this post! 🙂
Wait, someone actually has “internet famous” in their bio? You have got to email me the 411. Or a link to the page/persons who started this blog post in your head. 🙂
Well said. I think people should blog for fun, not for pride.
You have hit the nail on the head.
I see this all the time. Everywhere. Makes me chuckle every single time. The most fame I get is from my kids when I make a dinner they actually enjoy!
Wish people could describe what “Internet Famous” is… cause I don’t think that is even possible!
Good for you , for telling it like is. I am so over the whole blog fame thing, half the time to be quote honest I can’t see the big hype over certain bloggers, especially when I’m looking at the content they are writing.
Good for you for telling it like it is 🙂
I have seen this way to many times and like you said who cares anyways. It’s all about enjoying what you do at the end of the day. So many bloggers are guilty of this and it’s pathetic and to bad they aren’t the ones reading this.
Thanks for sharing :))
I have in the past been ‘beer garden famous’.
Does that count?