Is SL More Like Paris Hilton or Tyra Banks?
by Urizenus Sklar on 20/10/06 at 10:29 pm
While the mainstream media (hereafter MSM) continues its uncritical jeans-creaming over Second Life, bloggers who are actually familiar with virtual spaces are less easily aroused. In the latest blogger broadside, The Forge , massively unimpressed by the Ben Folds nonevent, calls Second Life the “Paris Hilton of virtual wolds. Famous for being famous and little else”.
Now we think this is unfair, because, well, we love The Simple Life. After seeing the following clip, we decided that a better comparison would be Vaseline saleswoman Tyra Banks.
humdog
Oct 21st, 2006
yes yes yes yes, she said, yes.
you know if you read all the media crap about
SL, it is basically all the same article,
filtering down from On High until at last
it will cum, exhausted like a spawning salmon on
the last creekbed in Alaska, in the back pages of a pennysaver somewhere in Nebraska.
Urizenus
Oct 21st, 2006
I like it when Tyra says “your wildest dreams have come true!”, and it is a jar of vaseline encrusted with bling. Could there be a more perfect metaphor for the current SL hype?
Prokofy Neva
Oct 21st, 2006
humdog, that was HILARIOUS!
Where the hell have you BEEN? Gosh, the Herald really IS back if humdog is on the comments again!!!
Fiend Ludwig
Oct 21st, 2006
Please God let that video be a joke.
Mika
Oct 22nd, 2006
WTH!!!!!! Oh my…and here I thought Tyra was cool. I’m rethinking that now. I’m scared to even look at Vaasaline. It looked like she was high or drunk, HAHAHAHAHA!! Gosh that was scary.