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Good ol MySpace

  • May. 26th, 2006 at 2:21 PM
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For reasons not worth going into right now, I have been spending a bit of time this week poking around MySpace, particularly looking at the people who are really really really popular there, what kinds of pages they have, etc. And let's be frank: the most popular profiles on MySpace are either bands or trashy-hot girls who are or aspire to be models or strippers, and have photos showing lots of skin. My job kinda rules. There is lots to enjoy about spending some time this way (sure beats testing and debugging), but maybe the best is reading the comments left by fans on those trashy-hot pictures. E.g., look at this profile (something like 4th most popular non-band on MySpace). Here are some of the comments on her pictures.. MySpace rules.

DAMN, you should show alittle nipple.

dame girl your so fucking fine

i like every thing on you u is the most sexyst woemen ever [BEST MYSPACE COMMENT EVER]

i think ur hot

DAMN GIRL U GOT SUM NICE ASS TITZ DAMN DAMN DAMN U FUKIN SEXXI

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[info]maarten wrote:
May. 26th, 2006 10:55 pm (UTC)
Yikes. You think maybe that profile is a little bit of marketing on the part of Playboy or whoever manages her pay-to-view website?

(It may not be--I've seen someone local who may have 100x fewer friends but has more skin exposure and doesn't seem to be trying to sell herself.)

Somehow your post reminds me of the days when people got paid to surf the web and look for stuff that should be blocked by nannyware.
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[info]optic wrote:
May. 26th, 2006 11:16 pm (UTC)
I don't know that Playboy is involved per se, but it's definitely marketing. All these girls are aspiring to a certain kind of celebrity and attention, and many of them have pay sites (or have done photo shoots for FHM and other shows). They're not really any different than the bands using MySpace to find and recruit fans, except they're not selling music.

But yeah, if you go further down the popularity list you see what look much more like regular people who are just surfing MySpace like crazy or something, collecting friends.
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[info]snej wrote:
May. 27th, 2006 12:47 am (UTC)
Ick. She looks like a plastic doll. The last MySpace hottie you posted about (yesterday?) was lots cuter.

I'm glad MySpace exists ... my hope is that it's sucking the more clueless/obnoxious people away from LiveJournal.
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[info]optic wrote:
May. 27th, 2006 05:10 am (UTC)
no, that's why I said trashy-hot. there's a certain style that's especially popular on myspace, and subtlety is not it. though sometimes trashy-hot is hot.

I don't know, there are 80 million people on myspace or something.. I don't think you can make any generalizations about them. but the hot-aspiring-model subculture is sorta interesting.

don't think I posted about any other myspace hotties recently, did I?
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[info]snej wrote:
May. 27th, 2006 06:19 am (UTC)
Oops, sorry, it was [info]interimlover, not you ... here's his post.
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[info]optic wrote:
May. 27th, 2006 06:26 am (UTC)
well at least the hottie I posted about is an actual person, not just a porn link ;)
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[info]snej wrote:
May. 27th, 2006 06:31 am (UTC)
I dunno; she looks rather injection-molded, or Phong-shaded, to me. (Although I only looked at the page for about two seconds before the music started blasting and I reflexively closed the window. Man, talk about NSFW...)

I don't really "get" MySpace, and I feel sort of queasy just looking at any of the pages there. Which must be the way the Real Bloggers feel about LJ. Fortunately we have intrepid researchers like you to do the dirty work for us.
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[info]bitterwhiteguy wrote:
May. 28th, 2006 03:28 pm (UTC)
The sounds you hear in the background are the gears on my Solaris box at work grinding to a halt as it tries to process all the animated & pre-loaded crap on that page. Holy jeebus.





*adds trashy whore to friends list*
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mudpie1598 wrote:
Jul. 3rd, 2006 08:02 pm (UTC)
Poor Optic, you sure work hard! btw, nice layout. Why the sudden change? You've got color now.
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