Thursday, September 10, 2009

Prok Needs to Learn to Rap Chop

I am sure everyone here is familliar with infomercial huckster Vince Offer, of ShamWOW and Slap-Chop fame. You've either seen his ads on tv, or heard about the talk radio tiff between him and huckster Billy Mays (RIP), or about Vince's other claims to fame: Having won a suit against the Church of Scientology (always good to earn him fans from /b/tards), or having put the smack down on a prostitute who bit his tongue and wouldn't let go.

His ads have been remixed with autotune beauty in YouTUBE videos as "Rap Chop" and "Jam WOW". Rather than suing the remixing DJ for copyright infringement, Vince got smart, he endorsed the videos and had them recut for release AS ADVERTISEMENTS. This obviously greatly upped his Q rating among the young and hip who are not normally sold by infomercials, and has expanded his sales via the viral marketing medium of YouTUBE.

Many other companies are marketing to the young crowd by real or fake viral video efforts, either by coopting an existing viral video of their product, or producing one as an astroturf effort while disavowing association (particularly when the corporation has an older audience that doesnt 'get' what might be edgy content in a viral video.

Prokofy, we feel, is in a similar situation: if she were smart, she'd take advantage of the fact that she was so popular with the /b/tard and goon market segment in SL, and seek to market to them. She should welcome group members from Woodbury, from W-Hat, and from any other group that obsesses so much about her.

Unfortunately Prok is not smart, she is driven by her emotions, she sees what she believes and not the reverse. When someone asks for politeness, she gives the typical New Yorkers "Fuck off!" response. When someone expresses affection for her and her company, she says "Get away from me you creep!"

Because after all, someone so toxic and negative has to hate herself so much she cannot possibly believe that people would like her unless they were messed up. She is inherently unable to coopt the viral internet culture that has coopted her image and her memes of leninist conspiracies and technocommunism into jokes. She certainly cannot stand being the butt of jokes, being unable to not take her self seriously.

This is the difference between her and IntLibber: Int has learned to enjoy the lulz, even when its at his own expense. Prok can't. She is a troll of hate, while /b/ doesnt hate, it does things for the lulz. Doing things for hate is taking things seriously, and nothing is more non-/b/ than the srs bsns of hating things. Prok is the true internet hate machine. She cannot coopt that which she hates, so she will continue banning everyone she attacks and hates on, and expanding her failure along the way.

1 comment:

  1. Prokofy's rants should be recorded with appropriate background music and sound effects as those of Francis E. Dec have been. I can't read "tekkie wikinista" without being reminded of "gangster computer god".

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