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[Grildon Tundy]

Andy Warhol (the Campbell's soup guy) said in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

It's a weird thing. I made money off it. It was shown on TV. Thousands of copycats/homages/parodies. Millions upon millions upon millions of views. It's been directly depicted/parodied in TV shows that I was already a fan of. People built entire brands around the same idea.

So it's part of the global consciousness but now I just go "Huh. This is probably the biggest impact I'll ever have on the world, and it doesn't even belong to me anymore, and only close friends and family even know it was me."

Part humblebrag, mainly just being wistful.

Something I've wanted to ask on this forum for a while is if anyone can relate?

So: it could've been a picture, a meme, a video, a comment, etc. Have you ever gone viral?

 

[HRK69]

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[DKehoe]

Andy Warhol (the Campbell's soup guy) said in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

Were you the first guy to eat a Tide pod?

 

[nush]

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

Extreme Ironing?

 

[666]

Yeah, my old band did. Made some friends/fans from it and a little bit of money.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Edit.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Does this count?

 

[GymWolf]

One time i minstakenly sneezed on my mom when i was a child and she catched the cough the day after, is that being viral enough?

If not, look at the most beloved gaf members in the members section and look who you see at 7th place.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Does this count?

RE7?

 

[The Cockatrice]

RE7?

Yep

 

[HRK69]

I just watched the re-edit and then the original. The re-edit is so much better. Good stuff!

Man, thank you! I just really liked how the timing clicked with the music when I uploaded it. I never imagined a major site like ComicBook.com would feature it

Seeing the live analytics and views climbing is a surreal dopamine hit. While I love the editing process, building an audience is tough when your niche is specific. I tried jumping on trends but the constant competition just led to major burnout

 

[Chuck Berry]

Andy Warhol (the Campbell's soup guy) said in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

It's a weird thing. I made money off it. It was shown on TV. Thousands of copycats/homages/parodies. Millions upon millions upon millions of views. It's been directly depicted/parodied in TV shows that I was already a fan of. People built entire brands around the same idea.

So it's part of the global consciousness but now I just go "Huh. This is probably the biggest impact I'll ever have on the world, and it doesn't even belong to me anymore, and only close friends and family even know it was me."

Part humblebrag, mainly just being wistful.

Something I've wanted to ask on this forum for a while is if anyone can relate?

So: it could've been a picture, a meme, a video, a comment, etc. Have you ever gone viral?

Just say what you did, dude. You don't need to drop your birthname and home address. Jesus christ.

Why even bother making the thread? "Every had your 15 minutes of fame? I sure did, but like fuck I'm going to tell you all what it is. Hur dee derp."

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Man, thank you! I just really liked how the timing clicked with the music when I uploaded it. I never imagined a major site like ComicBook.com would feature it

Seeing the live analytics and views climbing is a surreal dopamine hit. While I love the editing process, building an audience is tough when your niche is specific. I tried jumping on trends but the constant competition just led to major burnout

I can relate, though I never really tried to capitalize on mine (probably should have).

Not to mention reading comments is funny and rewarding, too.

Just say what you did, dude. You don't need to drop your birthname and home address. Jesus christ.

Why even bother making the thread? "Every had your 15 minutes of fame? I sure did, but like fuck I'm going to tell you all what it is. Hur dee derp."

I'm a private person. It's part of the reason I never capitalized on it. And there is coverage on it that leads directly back to my real-life details.

 

[ssringo]

I don't really do much that might garner attention. I think the most attention I ever got was like 100 or so thumbs up on a Steam review. And I guess I may have started circulating the gif my avatar came from a while back but that's just that I never saw it anywhere until I made it.

I'm more curious what TC's 15 minutes actually was.

 

[poppabk]

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

Goatse is that you? Because just for the record I didn't want to see your 'contents'

 

[Trogdor1123]

No, that's all a nightmare to me.

 

[GateofD]

I can relate, though I never really tried to capitalize on mine (probably should have).

Not to mention reading comments is funny and rewarding, too.


I'm a private person. It's part of the reason I never capitalized on it. And there is coverage on it that leads directly back to my real-life details.

Guess we never know, but you made it sound like its such a common gag or reference that its part of the worldsphere rather than directly linking to one person

 

[HRK69]

I can relate, though I never really tried to capitalize on mine (probably should have).

It's never too late right?

Not to mention reading comments is funny and rewarding, too.

They really are. I rarely get bad feedback and its indeed incredibly rewarding when someone leaves a nice comment

 

[Chuck Berry]

I'm a private person. It's part of the reason I never capitalized on it. And there is coverage on it that leads directly back to my real-life details.

Then why even bother saying anything and going into detail in the first place? And coverage? Where? More bullshit.

Did you come up with something that kills the prefrontal cortex because you did an amazing job.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Then why even bother saying anything and going into detail in the first place? And coverage? Where? More bullshit.

Did you come up with something that kills the prefrontal cortex because you did an amazing job.

Because in addition to being a private person, I'm also nostalgic and introverted, and think about it often. And would like to know what others' experience was. And to discuss how going viral is kind of a new thing in the past 20 years or so.

NeoGAF being semi-anonymous seemed like a good place to ask since nobody in my real-life circle has a similar experience.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Because in addition to being a private person, I'm also nostalgic and introverted, and think about it often. And would like to know what others' experience was.

Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 DR3AM , GigaTard and the rest of the gunk.

"I'm introverted but here, let me tell you about how I went ultra viral. But please don't ask me about the details. You know, the whole essence of the thread."

Brilliant.

 

[GateofD]

Is it one of those times you see a director do something you had a dream of and go "he stole my idea!"

 

[GymWolf]

Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 DR3AM , GigaTard and the rest of the gunk.

"I'm introverted but here, let me tell you about how I went ultra viral. But please don't ask me about the details. You know, the whole essence of the thread."

Brilliant.

You were kinda viral in here during the mindseye release

 

[nush]

I'm in this game, face scanned at a US soldier.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 DR3AM , GigaTard and the rest of the gunk.

"I'm introverted but here, let me tell you about how I went ultra viral. But please don't ask me about the details. You know, the whole essence of the thread."

Brilliant.

I'm not really understanding why this set you off. Dealing with virality with a mix of pride and wanting to keep it private is my way of navigating it. Others might have a different or similar perspective that I'm curious to hear, and are free to share as much or as little as they want.

Is it one of those times you see a director do something you had a dream of and go "he stole my idea!"

 

[Chuck Berry]

You were kinda viral in here during the mindseye release

I went viral for having Horizon Zero Dawn before anyone else. I got it like three weeks in advance around or before reviewers had it. It made a couple game site articles (nothing huge like IGN or anything). I had a thread on here about it and everything.

 

[GymWolf]

I went viral for having Horizon Zero Dawn before anyone else. I got it like three weeks in advance around or before reviewers had it. It made a couple game site articles (nothing huge like IGN or anything). I had a thread on here about it and everything.

Lucky bastard...

 

[Chuck Berry]

I'm not really understanding why this set you off. Dealing with virality with a mix of pride and wanting to keep it private is my way of navigating it. Others might have a different or similar perspective that I'm curious to hear, and are free to share as much or as little as they want.

I'm really not "set off", I just don't get why people go into something they seemingly really want to talk about and then bail out leaving out all the actual interesting details like "Figure it out, stupid". It's just utterly pointless to me. If you want to talk about something, talk about it.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Lucky bastard...

Yeah for a time I had an acquaintance that worked shipping for some major company and he had early access to (or stole) copies of stuff that were weeks away from releasing. I got Uncharted 4 super early as well. And this was all through CraigsList. I think he only charged me like $15 extra or something and then he'd priority mail it so I'd have it the next day. It was SUCH a sweet hookup.

Then he just...disappeared. Probably arrested

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I'm really not "set off", I just don't get why people go into something they seemingly really want to talk about and then bail out leaving out all the actual interesting details like "Figure it out, stupid". It's just utterly pointless to me. If you want to talk about something, talk about it.

I don't think you guys are stupid, given my intention was to leave out enough detail that it could apply to any number of things. This is yet another example of me at odds with what other people tend to find interesting versus me (details vs the subjective experience of a thing).

I'm in this game, face scanned at a US soldier.

Hell yeah! I bet that'd be a trip to play.

 

[IDKFA]

Andy Warhol (the Campbell's soup guy) said in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.

I have. Don't really feel like doxxing myself, but chances are you've seen my "content". And I almost guarantee you've heard of the online trend that it started.

It's a weird thing. I made money off it. It was shown on TV. Thousands of copycats/homages/parodies. Millions upon millions upon millions of views. It's been directly depicted/parodied in TV shows that I was already a fan of. People built entire brands around the same idea.

So it's part of the global consciousness but now I just go "Huh. This is probably the biggest impact I'll ever have on the world, and it doesn't even belong to me anymore, and only close friends and family even know it was me."

Part humblebrag, mainly just being wistful.

Something I've wanted to ask on this forum for a while is if anyone can relate?

So: it could've been a picture, a meme, a video, a comment, etc. Have you ever gone viral?

Once I was a member of Era, just for shits and giggles.

I tried to really push the boundaries of what I could get away with and one day created a thread about my ideal world. The world was a dystopia hell hole, but I wanted too see how far the Era members would go with it. Surprisingly, my idea for a perfect world was too much for Era.

My thread was then featured on a Twitter account called Restera Takes where they were ripping the shit out of it. To them, I was another bat crazy Era memeber posting about my ideal dystopian world.

That's about as close as I've come to going viral.

Resetera Takes no longer exists, but my thread does.

Your perfect, ideal (but unrealistic) vision of Earth.

If you had unlimited power to shape the earth how you see fit, what would it look like? I had a discussion with my wife yesterday about our ideal visions for the planet and I'm pleased that we both came up with the same ideas! This just a pipe dream and I don't expect to see this, but this is...

www.resetera.com

 

[Chuck Berry]

I don't think you guys are stupid, given my intention was to leave out enough detail that it could apply to any number of things. This is yet another example of me at odds with what other people tend to find interesting versus me (details vs the subjective experience of a thing).


Hell yeah! I bet that'd be a trip to play.

I getcha man. I just hate being dickteased with an opening post like yours and then you leave out the best part....what you did

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Once I was a member of Era, just for shits and giggles.

I tried to really push the boundaries of what I could get away with and one day created a thread about my ideal world. The world was a dystopia hell hole, but I wanted too see how far the Era members would go with it. Surprisingly, my idea for a perfect world was too much for Era.

My thread was then featured on a Twitter account called Restera Takes where they were ripping the shit out of it. To them, I was another bat crazy Era memeber posting about my ideal dystopian world.

That's about as close as I've come to going viral.

Resetera Takes no longer exists, but my thread does.

Your perfect, ideal (but unrealistic) vision of Earth.

If you had unlimited power to shape the earth how you see fit, what would it look like? I had a discussion with my wife yesterday about our ideal visions for the planet and I'm pleased that we both came up with the same ideas! This just a pipe dream and I don't expect to see this, but this is...

www.resetera.com

Resetera needs reactions. I want to see who all endorsed your OP

 

[IDKFA]

Resetera needs reactions. I want to see who all endorsed your OP

None.

The world was far too dystopian for them.

But this was early era. Prehaps now most would call it paradise

 

[AJUMP23]

I had a sign at a wrestling event get pretty big. Tweeted and retweeted a bunch.

It was a fun night.

 

[Woggleman]

I was on Romper Room once as a kid

 

[Moondoggy]

Yep, I had the flu just last year.

 

[Trunx81]

I was number one trend on Twitter for one day.
My fifteen minutes were wasted.

Oh and I hosted a live show on national TV in Colombia for two hours.

 

[cormack12]

I was on TV as a panelist in like 2010 for a 1hr special. I've tried searching for the show for ages but never been able to find it. Not surprising like

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Kinda?

I once wrote a FAQ for a very famous game.
I was directly mentioned in a number of online forums. I met people at games and comics conventions who talked about it. A magazine even stole part of it and published it without me giving them permission. My younger cousin was in elementary school at the time and he was so proud when other kids talked about my FAQ.