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Grildon Tundy

Grildon Tundy

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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?
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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.
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Were you the first guy to eat a Tide pod?
 
Does this count?

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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. 🥲
 
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I just watched the re-edit and then the original. The re-edit is so much better. Good stuff!
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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
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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?
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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? "Ever 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."

Season 3 What GIF by On My Block
 
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HRK69 said:
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
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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.

Chuck Berry said:
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."

Season 3 What GIF by On My Block
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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.
 
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.
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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.
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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
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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.
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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.
 
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Chuck Berry said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
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Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 LakeOf9 DR3AM 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.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 LakeOf9 DR3AM 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.
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You were kinda viral in here during the mindseye release :lollipop_grinning_sweat:
 
Chuck Berry said:
Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 LakeOf9 DR3AM 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.
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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.

GateofD said:
Is it one of those times you see a director do something you had a dream of and go "he stole my idea!"
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GymWolf said:
You were kinda viral in here during the mindseye release :lollipop_grinning_sweat:
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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.
 
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Grildon Tundy said:
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.
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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.
 
GymWolf said:
Lucky bastard...
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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 :messenger_grimmacing_
 
Chuck Berry said:
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.
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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).

nush said:
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I'm in this game, face scanned at a US soldier.
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Hell yeah! I bet that'd be a trip to play.
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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?
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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.

www.resetera.com

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 www.resetera.com
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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.
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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 :messenger_tears_of_joy: :messenger_dizzy:
 
IDKFA said:
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.

www.resetera.com

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 www.resetera.com
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Resetera needs reactions. I want to see who all endorsed your OP 🤣
 
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. ☝️
 
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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
 
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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.
 
No but if my cancer ever gets terminal I will do something silly like robbing a bank naked or setting myself on fire and jumping off a real tall building 😃
 
Grildon Tundy said:
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?
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Without giving away what you did - I am extremely curious:

How much money do people actually make off going viral? How much money did you make? Surely you can share that, there is zero chance we can guess anything from that.

Like, did you make $10k off something that did 10 million impressions (views/whatever)? So like $1 per 1000 views in essence?
 
Biff said:
Without giving away what you did - I am extremely curious:

How much money do people actually make off going viral? How much money did you make? Surely you can share that, there is zero chance we can guess anything from that.

Like, did you make $10k off something that did 10 million impressions (views/whatever)? So like $1 per 1000 views in essence?
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I made around $1000 because an international TV station needed my consent to air it and was willing to pay. American TV aired it, too, but didn't have to get the rights or clearance, so no money from them. Or even personal outreach from those stations.

Research shows it would've been around $60K - $140K (depending on who's watching) if I had monetized it, based on the number of views it had. And there were (and still are) a ton of unofficial reposts/duplications; I might have claim to that revenue if the paperwork was in order--not sure how that works.
 
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In 2005, I made a version of one of the truly earliest viral memes: the "One does not simply X into Mordor" thing. I guess it was well-received enough that it's still one of the examples of said meme on Know Your Meme over 20 years later.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Well congrats for veering right into useless poster territory with the likes of LakeOf9 LakeOf9 DR3AM 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.
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Another fucker to make your blood boil! Imagine you bump into both him and Cockatrice in a dark alley, it'd be a fookin bloodbath.
 
Yes, but very minor.

Posted in a thread on /x that caught some attention, and it fizzled out after a few months. Forgot about it for years, and then saw it was in a couple of those "unsolved internet mysteries" youtube videos.

Not my proudest moment.
 
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