This is supposedly how Tila Tequila got famous
For the record, I actually don’t know how Tila Tequila looks like except that now, I have to find a picture of her for this entry (Oh, that’s what she looks like!). Before this, I did not know who she was. I only had an idea she’s a somebody because I always read her name online (always!).
What she’s famous for, I had no clue. Until I read this article from Holy Taco saying….
"Back in 2005, the editor-in-chief of Stuff magazine wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the Internet. He called down to the online department and said, “Hey, tell me who has a lot of Myspace friends,” because he wanted to put someone on the cover of Stuff who had a “lot of Myspace friends.” The brilliant marketing plan behind this was based on the thinking that if someone on the cover had a million Myspace friends, then all those “friends” would buy that magazine and sales would skyrocket. What it showed, instead, was a complete lack of understanding of how the Internet works. When someone has a million Myspace friends, it just means that he/she spends the majority of his/her day clicking “add as a friend” or “accept.” They aren’t pals who sit around and reminisce about the good times they’ve had.
So, the online guy took 10 seconds (honestly, 10 seconds) and found a girl with an assload of MySpace friends. That, girl, of course, was Tila Tequila, and she appeared on the April 2006 cover of Stuff.
The editor’s big plan failed (the cover sold the same as every other one), but Tila Tequila somehow got famous. A girl whose biggest claim to fame up to that point had been a Playboy cyber girl in 2002 (which is basically the sewage drain of wannabe models) and some other crap you never saw. She even attempted to enter Maxim’s Hometown Hotties in 2005, but was too stupid to mail in the proper forms."
I have no idea whether this story is true or not.
Centuries ago, a person became famous for the kind of contribution he or she has brought to the world — Da Vinci, Newton, Grahambell — those kinds of famous people.
In the Internet age, Tila’s story shows how anyone can become "famous" just by simply clicking on some ADD ME button in a social networking site.
Times have changed. A lot.
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