Nov 5 2007Hey, What About Oprah's Idiotic New YouTube Channel?!
With the sudden celebrity of the LonelyGirl15s, the eye-linered men crying to leave dying pop stars alone, and the various videotaped sexual conquests of the animal kingdom, it's easy to start thinking of YouTube as way that the world's nobodies can become somebodies, if only for one torturous weekend of email forwards.
But such a narrow outlook leaves out the other ways YouTube is useful, like giving the most famous, omnipresent people alive--those with their own cable channel, an unreasonably popular talk show, a show about that talk show, and a magazine--a way to push their influence beyond that of mortals.
Oprah, for instance, has just started her own YouTube channel to graciously bestow her greatness to the plebeian masses of the internet. And get this: Oprah is so cool and down-to-earth, she doesn't even have a name for it! She's just going to call it, "Hey, what about Oprah's channel?" That's so O.
And so are the low-quality cell phone videos of her wandering her empire, and her recommendations to be as ambitious as a skateboarding dog, that she plans on posting to "Hey, what about Oprah's channel?"
Our world is one step closer to Optopia--a life more Oprah than not.
Oprah's Message to YouTube [Hey, what about Oprah's channel?]
