The dumbest moments in New Media history

[milowent]

i would not include chris crocker. newmedia can learn from people like him -- another youtuber with more views than most webseries will ever get.

[Venus Spa]

i would not include chris crocker. newmedia can learn from people like him -- another youtuber with more views than most webseries will ever get.

I don't think this is something web series producers could harness anymore than Boxee was. This guy basically did the freak show thing on a slow news day with the only topical news item going at the time. There were a LOT of Britney reaction videos that night but this one got lucky. (His feud with Perez Hilton helped as well.)

[Venus Spa]

Here's possibly the biggest screwup of all:

MTV embraces Napster Kid.

Remember when MTV ruled the music industry and popular culture? It isn't too hard to pinpoint the day it all came to an end for the once mighty MTV. It happened at the 2002 MTV VMA's when they brought Shawn Fanning, aka Napster Kid, on stage to present an award wearing a Metalica tshirt, (one of many who sued him for stealing their music,) and was given a rousing standing ovation. In doing so they only added to his legend and ultimately killed both the music industry and their own credibility as a music channel. Soon most major bands walked away from the network one by one and the smaller bands were redused to 'hobbiests' as the major record labels crumbled in the years following Napster's rise and fall.

Today MTV doesn't play music at all on their network and Disney and Simon Cowell dominate the pop music scene where MTV once did. MTV and Viacom thought by embracing Napster they would maintain the teenagers that fueled their success for 20 years previous. They were wrong.

[Mathieas]

Did I mention Newscorp buying Myspace? If not I think that turned out to be a mistake.

[Venus Spa]

Did I mention Newscorp buying Myspace? If not I think that turned out to be a mistake.

Was it inevidable that Myspace would become obsolete though?

[Mathieas]

Was it inevidable that Myspace would become obsolete though?

I'm trying to remember because, honestly, I don't want to look it up, but I think when Newscorp bought
Myspace, facebook hadn't taken off yet. Myspace was insanely popular, I never cared for it, I had a real
website not some stupid profile and crappy premade layout... don't get me started on my old man back
in my day people learned html and made websites instead of filling out a form rant... (shakes fist at kids
playing on the yard)... wait where was I?

Okay, so Myspace was really popular but hadn't made a nickle and Newscorp bought it for like 900 billion
dollars. Now its a giant smelly turd, a bit of an Internet joke, and headed for Geocities territory. Pretty much
the only people still using it are dudes pretending to be chicks hitting on other dudes pretending to be chicks.
That reminds me I need to check my Myspace page, I think I may have met the one!

[Venus Spa]

Celebs were the ONLY reason Myspace took off. It gave people the illusion that they were buddies with anyone and everyone in Hollywood, no different than the Twitter phenominon. When people find out that this illusion isn't true, they move on to the next shiny toy. There was nothing anyone could have done to change that with Myspace imo.

[Venus Spa]

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/Fi ... l_tim.html

The entire AOL/Time Warner merger was a decade long debacle that finally ended today. Note to the new media: NEVER GO PUBLIC UNLESS YOU STILL HOLD A SOLID, UNCHALLENGABLE MAJORITY OR ELSE YOU WILL FAIL!!! Being under the thumb of soulless shareholders and nervous compulsive gamblers aka stockbrokers is the root of more company collapses than anything else in the history of American business.

[Mathieas]

Can I include releasing the Bannen Way a week early to get a Streamy nod, or is it too late for that? (see what I did there?)

[Venus Spa]

Can I include releasing the Bannen Way a week early to get a Streamy nod, or is it too late for that? (see what I did there?)

If you include watching the entire industry rush to kiss Sony's ass, I'll make an exception!