The Microfame Game

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Three Simple Ways to Ruin Your Life [Microfame]
Published 6/18/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... out. After an advanced anthropological study of Internet Microfame, he's published his initial findings in New York Magazine. In explaining the concept, he also instructs the reader on how to become microfamous in three easy steps! "To persevere in the new age of celebrity, you need to return to the well, repeating these steps of creating, oversharing, and responding." Soon you too can dog-sit for Julia Allison. We are all Tay Zonday, Emily Brill, and the Tron Guy now. [NYM] ...

Meet the Microfamous, the Internet's Lowest Contribution to Society
Published 6/18/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... Rex Sorgatz, who had his own bout of microfame, now provides a handy how-to guide to becoming one of them, a primer that should be treated like those nuclear bomb building guidebooks circulating the Internet: buried at all costs. ...

How To Be Microfamous
Published 6/18/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... from her six-figure gig as Star magazine talking head, New York magazine offers up detailed instructions on how you, anonymous reader, can reap the myriad benefits of microfame-dom, and possibly become a known entity like Ms. Allison (or even ...

Snark Sightings
Published 6/18/2008 by Erin at Snark Food - Daily Gossip
The ULTIMATE Guide To MicroFame: NY Mag Blake Lively’s Dog Is Incontinent: Just Jared Jennifer Aniston DOESN’T hate Jennifer Connelly: Jossip Spencer Pratt- Advice Columnist: Radar Jack Black Farts Coco-Puffs: DailyStab --- Related Articles at Snark Food - Celebrity Gossip: Snark Sightings About Snark Food Snark Sightings Snark Sightings Snark Sightings ...

The Backhanded Art of the Unflattering Cover [This Thing Looks Like That Thing]
Published 7/14/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... Ms. Allison, who's moved beyond the "dating columnist/celeb talking head" thing to become a noted dater-of-rich-nerds, is the subject of yet another of those interminable stories about becoming Internet Famous in Three Easy Steps. We haven't read the piece, except that we already did in a different magazine like a month ago. More importantly: editors and contributors who perhaps have some doubt as to your value as a cover model may undermine the honor with unflattering photoshop work and coverlines. ("Even if you're nobody," eh?) Just ask right-wing comedienne Ann Coulter. And ...