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Nudist Camp Video – Take 1

Here’s the thing guys, and yes I am talking directly to my followers, I wanted to talk to you about tagging my blog and Googling it.

You know, over the past two years I have had some pretty weird searches from Google that led people to my blog. There was the one about the alien plant, which I did not hate. I love being associated with aliens. Plants not so much, but life is a compromise.
Then there was the one about someone who didn’t know what to do with their life. That one was pretty intense. It made me wonder “Does Google think I know what I’m doing with my life?” Like a fun Google joke.
I addressed both of those tags and I felt good about myself.

But this morning I woke up to a Google search that clearly took the cake:

nudist camp videos

Okay, raise your hand if you Googled that, you weird little person.
Raise your hand if you think I am a member of a nudist camp.
Do I need to teach you guys how to use Google? Cause it’s starting to feel that way.

Part of me wants to laugh really hard at the fact that people can Google this and find me, but the other part of me wants to know how this happened.

I could be a nudist, if we are getting down to it. I have no problem with nudity at all. Do I think that everyone in the world should run around naked at all times? No. I would like to think we have evolved from that.

In the end though, I feel like it is almost a challenge. Like I should start making nudist camp videos. Maybe that’s what you expect from me.
I could make excellent nudist camp videos. They would be amazing and not porn.
But that would start me down a slippery slope of having to act out every Google search that leads to my blog. I mean, I got one that said “crab weed tattoos”.
I can’t get one of those you guys. I’m SORRY! I’ve never even smoked weed. Or a crab for that matter. It would be false advertising and awkward.

I guess what I am saying is that I’ve reached 100 blog followers. I know that is not a gigantic number, but it’s not a small one either. I can honestly say that I may be starting to not have such a small following. But I can also debate against myself in that. I can also be the mediator for that one too.
Anyways, the pressure is on. But apparently not our clothes. Go figure.

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The Internet Went On Strike

One thing that I have heard about myself is that I am very “nonjudgmental” especially for someone who is religious. Apparently I don’t seem like a religious person because I’m not forcing ideals on people.

When it comes to ideals, I have given up on trying to talk about them or convince people of my ideals.  I don’t want the job of trying to change other people. It doesn’t pay well.
So I mostly keep quiet about them. The only problem is when people then ask me about my ideals or opinions, they are surprised at how strong my opinions are.

Anyways, I gave up protests and such when I was younger because no matter how much I protested, things really didn’t change. It’s depressing, but true. But I did do the black out strike.

So, is it sad that when I heard about the SOPA and PIPA laws  the first thing I thought of doing was to hug my computer and yell “DON’T TAKE MY LIFE AWAY FROM ME!”
Yes, my life is on the computer. I don’t do much else. It’s again depressing but true. It’s where I work, it’s where I play and it’s where I spend almost all my time.

So, I blacked out all of my websites today, that was not easy at all. I was very sad to see them blacked out, imagining them like that forever and the possible 5 years in jail was very hard on me. Emotional day, as you can imagine.
I also signed multiple petitions and called 3 representatives for Nevada. In the end I’m not sure if it will do any good, but I gave it my best effort I would say. And the results seemed pretty positive.

In the end, if it is supposed to happen it will happen. I guess I believe in fate because it this is the future, I’m not sure there is anything we can do about it. BUT! I also feel that taking on the entire internet was a brave thing to do for whoever wrote these bills. The whole internet seems like a worthy foe.
SO! I propose, if the government is as corrupt as it seems, I propose that Google, Twitter and Facebook all buy off the politicians seeing as they have the money and they are all clearly against it.

Wikipedia shouldn’t have to though. That just wouldn’t make sense.

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My Paranoia is Kicking In

With a small look at my Site Stats this morning, I found that someone found my blog and website by searching the term “Hello Corz”.

Now this can either mean nothing, or it can mean something.  But mostly everything has those two options in life I suppose.
Anyways, it freaked me out a bit.
What if someone is greeting me via Google? Who is this magical person? Cause I can’t really think of a reason why someone would search Hello Corz in Google unless there is someone else out there using the name Corz prominently.

Weird.

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When asked 10-20 keywords to describe my blog, I said:

dancing
epic fail
internet banking
trampolines
outer space
folk dancing
talk radio
vegetarianism
cool blog?
how now brown cow
swine flu
amelia
Vegas Kids
jumping to conclusions
sky city
twitter followers
TelePrompTers

I think these are all valid.

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The Youtube Question.

Yesterday my friend posted a YouTube video on my sisters Facebook with the comment of “This is for Corrie too.”  It wouldn’t do the video justice to say that it was REALLY embarrassing. Despite how embarrassing this video was, and we couldn’t help but make fun of it, the video had over 40,000 views. After watching this movie it left me pondering the YouTube Question.

YouTube.com was first activated on February 14, 2005. A nice little Valentine’s Day present that would in less than 6 years suddenly become the Internet’s second largest search engine. Many people don’t think of YouTube as a search engine, but it certainly is. On May 17, 2010, YouTube began having over 2 billion videos views a day, competing with Google who has roughly between  33,043,001 -   34,545,330 searches a day. With the next search engine, Yahoo, only doing roughly 15 billion searches PER MONTH! Even Twitter has passed Yahoo in monthly searches.
With numbers like that, it should come as no surprise that YouTube is owned by Google, since October 2006. YouTube is in over 23 different countries and 24 different languages. The average person spends at least 15 minutes a day on YouTube and 24 hours worth of video is uploaded EVERY MINUTE to Youtube. Over 46.2 years of YouTube videos are watched on Facebook everyday.

With statistics like these, it’s no wonder YouTube can be a big break for someone. People who originally posted videos on YouTube for fun have long since been able to make careers.  Example:

Lucas Cruikshank is practically YouTube’s Poster Child. He released his first video as character Fred Figglehorn on October 30, 2006. Since then he has been featured on multiple television shows, been nominated for multiple awards and actually won the Teen’s Choice Award in 2009. The crazy thing, he is only 18 years old. A year younger than me.

Statistics aside, I think his character is super annoying. He does a series of voices and weird faces to create an anger filled 6-year-old. Who he plays himself, but he’s 18? How does this work? My opinion aside, people adore him and think he’s hilarious.
Again, the YouTube Question comes to my mind.

And one can’t forget the other top YouTubers. Including Shane Dawson, Smosh, Shane Dawson’s Second YouTube, Dave Days, Charlie McDonnell, Shane Dawsons Third YouTube, Mitchell Davis and of course the top subscribed person on YouTube Ryan Higa. Though none of these have been as successful as Lucas, they still have gone on to fame through uploading videos through YouTube.

Now when talking about YouTube, one can’t help but bring up its newest addition in fame:

Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” is most disliked video on YouTube. 1,683,226 dislikes. BUT! It is also one fastest growing in views videos. Today there is a lowly 84,672,801 views.
Who could forget thought-provoking “Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards”? Or classic words “We so excited. We gonna have a ball.”? Or the lyrical genius of “Gotta have my bowl, Gotta have cereal”?
The song is awful. Thought it strikes some people’s fancy, the majourity that can forgive her nasily voice are disgusted by the ridiculous lyrics.
People keep asking “Is this music video for real?”. Well, it doesn’t really matter now, does it? Despite the fact that this video is awful, people are still watching it. The YouTube Question.

What is the YouTube Question that I keep talking about?
Well it’s simple, is it completely worth to forever be on YouTube embarrassing yourself if you find fame? Is the fame still as sweet if it is the fame of ridicule?

I work on the internet, advertising people and making websites. So I know that what someone puts on the internet stays there forever. It can brand you for life. And just like Rebecca Black is now branded as the 13-year-old who couldn’t sing. Now people will forget about Rebecca Black, BUT if someone ever mentions the name Rebecca Black, it will all come back.
Just as the girl whose video I watched last night embarrassed herself in front of 40,000 people. Or how Katy Perry will always be branded as the girl who kissed a girl and liked it.
Not exactly good things to be branded as.

SO I would like to pose this question, is the fame found on YouTube worth being a laughing-stock?

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