Internet tribute

[Aralez]

lol, i just realized that i understood/knew about 75% of those references:

[Ki-tat Chung]

Hm...gonna have to say I only got around 30-40% of it...pretty entertaining though =)

[Strong Bob]

I understood quite the majority, save for a couple of things here and there.

 

What is interesting is that half of what I recognized I did not see online. Rather through the news, television, or even some other way. I don't think that some of that really belongs on "internet people" simply because they weren't made famous by the internet. (The Oprah/Tom Cruise part, for example.)

[Bomb Bloke]

I probably recognised... Less then half. I don't watch a lot of TV though...

[Strong Bob]

All of that stuff is supposedly accessable via the web. As if they were all made famous by the web.

 

Stuff like Homestarrunner and the Numa guy are solely internet based. But a good amount started out elsewhere before traversing the web.

[Ki-tat Chung]

I wonder...how much of it is actually more based around USA culture/happenings. I find it interesting that both BB and myself understood less than half of it. Perhaps it really is more about culture in USA, through the medium of internet, rather than just about internet itself. As you said, Strong Bob, most of the stuff started elsewhere, and I'm guessing the less than half bit that BB and I got are the bits that are purely internet based.

[Strong Bob]

You're probably right.

 

I'm surprised it made no mention of the Hong Kong cusser on the train or any of those Korean born Warcraft/Starcraft memes. THOSE are much more worthy of being exclusively internet fame. (Then again, the topics of that song are limited to whatever the writer was actually aware of online. Ha)

[Ki-tat Chung]

Bus Uncle? Yeah, very very well known in HK. (With myself originating from there =) )

In anycase, the target audience is Americans, so I suppose it serves its purpose. Catchy tune at least =)