The New "Face" of Gaming...

[redboxrazor]

To be fair, there are probably boys who like these folks as well. I've edited my original post to make the irrational group more inclusive.

*raises hand for Bieber*

*feels ashamed*

*doesn't care*

: P

 

[billd91]

Egad, there a lot of pop-culture illiteracy around here. Don't some of you ever go grocery shopping and stand in line next to the tabloids? To think that our celebrity-obsessed journalism has failed in making the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber and his comb-forward hair household names! I weep for the future of stand-up comedy and David Letterman's Top 10 lists, both of which trade on pop culture literacy for laughs. Oh, where are you now, Dennis Miller, whose rapid fire subrefences once set the heavens aflame with the peals of laughter?

 

[Scribble]

Egad, there a lot of pop-culture illiteracy around here. Don't some of you ever go grocery shopping and stand in line next to the tabloids? To think that our celebrity-obsessed journalism has failed in making the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber and his comb-forward hair household names! I weep for the future of stand-up comedy and David Letterman's Top 10 lists, both of which trade on pop culture literacy for laughs. Oh, where are you now, Dennis Miller, whose rapid fire subrefences once set the heavens aflame with the peals of laughter?

I get my dose from The Soup... Pop Culture is funny.

 

[Desdichado]

Egad, there a lot of pop-culture illiteracy around here. Don't some of you ever go grocery shopping and stand in line next to the tabloids? To think that our celebrity-obsessed journalism has failed in making the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber and his comb-forward hair household names! I weep for the future of stand-up comedy and David Letterman's Top 10 lists, both of which trade on pop culture literacy for laughs. Oh, where are you now, Dennis Miller, whose rapid fire subrefences once set the heavens aflame with the peals of laughter?

It seems to me that you have to deliberately turn yourself into some kind of hermit and luddite who refuses to partake of any interaction with the rest of society to not have at least heard of the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber.

Then again, I have a 12 year old daughter, so maybe I'm overestimating their exposure...

 

[Insight]

At the risk is forking this discussion too far off course, I believe this lack of media penetration has a lot to do with how we get our information. Those of us uninterested in Bieber and Jonas, etc, very rarely encounter such information due to the channels through which we get our information. How many of you spend time on Justin Bieber's website or Facebook page (on second thought, don't answer that!) How many Jonas Brothers ads have you seen on EN World, rpg.net, and so forth?

For my part, I limit myself to things in which I have an interest. I probably share some of these interests with some of you. I happen to "know about" Bieber and his cohorts from seeing Seventeen magazines and such at my local Speedway (they are right next to the cashiers). But beyond what they look like and their names, the half second I spend seeing the magazine cover is all the exposure they're going to get. And if you're perhaps not as observant as I am, you might not see it at all.

I guess my point is that media companies had a far easier time marketing their stars before the Internet factionalized all of us into our individual niches.

 

[fanboy2000]

Egad, there a lot of pop-culture illiteracy around here. Don't some of you ever go grocery shopping and stand in line next to the tabloids? To think that our celebrity-obsessed journalism has failed in making the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber and his comb-forward hair household names!

I get all my pop-culture news from The Soup.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't think so. Even before my daughter started coming to me and saying, "Hey, Dad, can you get on Amazon and download some Justin Bieber mp3s for me?" I already knew the gist of who he was. To not have even heard his name means you have to pretty much not watch TV, not read any news, not even look at any magazines whatsoever, not go to sites like Google and Yahoo!, and not talk to your coworkers.

It's quite an accomplishment to never have heard of Justin Bieber. Just not one that I'd necessarily be proud of...

 

[Scribble]

At the risk is forking this discussion too far off course...

Wait... It had a course to begin with???

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I get all my pop-culture news from The Soup.

To further illustrate my total disregard for pop culture, I don't have a clue what "The Soup" is, other than Kramer can't have any.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Beebs.

I mean, this is the internet. For Beebs not to be in the front of any poll involving him probably runs counter to Al Gore's original squealing fangirl intention for the Intertubes.