honestly i bet more people even today would at least know tiny tim's name over kreayshawn
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:22 (fourteen years ago)
actually weird al might do a good job with Gucci Gucci, maybe something about Charlie Brown like "Snoopy Snoopy" or something....
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)
snoopy snoopy lucy lucy patty patty schroeder
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:29 (fourteen years ago)
omg
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:29 (fourteen years ago)
looool
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:30 (fourteen years ago)
this would be an interesting bet
basically would break along generational lines, nobody under the age of 30 knows Tiny Tim, whereas nobody over the age of 50 knows Kreayshawn
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:31 (fourteen years ago)
and everyone between 30 and 50 started a band ah fuck it no
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:32 (fourteen years ago)
Gucci Gucci youtube views = 31 millionTiny Tim Tonight Show wedding viewers = 24.1 million
fyi
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:33 (fourteen years ago)
it would be pretty impossible to seperate who knows THAT tiny tim's name from people who are familiar with 'a christmas carol' so probably best to drop that as an example
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:33 (fourteen years ago)
there are sooo many ppl under the age of 30 that don't know who kreayshawn is
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:33 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha so fucking meaningless
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:34 (fourteen years ago)
although it's v cute when people pretend youtube view counts have anything to do w/ # of unique visitors
xpost
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:34 (fourteen years ago)
Tiny Tim Tonight Show wedding viewers = 24.1 million
just curious, where did you get this? i never know where to look for tv figures
that is one night, you realize
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:36 (fourteen years ago)
not even sure what this thought experiment is supposed to prove, the ratio of newsprint spilled in relation to record sales once you get outside the mega superstars has to be all over the map
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:37 (fourteen years ago)
lol @ newsprint
character bytes or w/e
that was just from a single youtube video, there are definitely a lot more. do you want me to aggregate them and do some statistical analysis or something
xp
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:37 (fourteen years ago)
can you cook me up a coefficient of variance on kreayshawn youtube views? also be sure to factor in campus utility data
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:38 (fourteen years ago)
Tiny Tim's wikipedia entry, which cites an interview he gave in 1974, which has (of course) been lol removed for a copyright claim. I suspect those are Nielsen numbers tho.
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:39 (fourteen years ago)
that single youtube video is pretty much kreayshawn's entire career, though
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:39 (fourteen years ago)
no, I meant that that's the view count on a single upload of the video - there are a whole bunch of other uploads of the same video, each with their own view counts
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)
There is a fairly diverse demographic in my office of about 120 or so and I can guarantee that none of these people know who Kreay is. all of them know the words to the thong song tho
― Aerosol, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:41 (fourteen years ago)
tiny tim used to live in the penthouse suite of the hotel fort des moines
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:41 (fourteen years ago)
my only point is that novelty songs have always generated celebrity, there is nothing that unusual going on here
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:41 (fourteen years ago)
his ukelele got stolen out of the lobby! it made the news
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:42 (fourteen years ago)
this is the best argument on ilx right now. riveted.
― max, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:43 (fourteen years ago)
all of them know the words to the thong song tho
I demand a youtube video as proof
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:44 (fourteen years ago)
also u.s. population was 202M in 69, 311M now, so the percentage for kreayshawn shrinks as well
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:47 (fourteen years ago)
how much has GQ's readership shrunk lol
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:47 (fourteen years ago)
but 12.4MM viewers saw kreayshawn on the MTV video awards so you have to factor in at least a 37% halo effect SCIENCE
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:52 (fourteen years ago)
im really confounded by this piece as well or the continual coverage & I'm not clear why she's not releasing music
that said i think you guys are really underestimating how popular she is
― D-40, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)
not that i'm convinced that popularity will turn into fans
but she's certainly a known celebrity at this point
yeah but comparable to who? the bar for 'celebrity' is pretty low these days, everybody is famous to somebody etc.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:55 (fourteen years ago)
no i think we are estimating her popularity with terrific accuracy
― goole, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:55 (fourteen years ago)
I have a pie chart
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)
― some dude, Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
impossible to answer but i dont know why you're so confident that sisqo was more known
― D-40, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)
are you crazy? sisqo was, between his group and solo records, the lead voice on like half a dozen huge pop hits and several platinum albums. there's no comparison.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:02 (fourteen years ago)
more fans =/= more known. im just saying, she's famous
― D-40, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)
if we agree sisqo was more popular then than kreayshawn is now, can we all go home?
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:06 (fourteen years ago)
the thing is that Sisqo was even more famous in a punchline/meme way at his peak than Kreayshawn is now, it's not like he was some unassuming R&B radio darling who never crossed over
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)
ok... so what's your point again?
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)
just that shakey and deej are dumb for thinking she's as famous as sisqo. not a very epic cause, i suppose.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)
im just saying, kreayshawn gets covered by like gossip blogs & gawker'd about and similar such shit, its a much larger audience than music fans
― D-40, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)
since when did sisqo become some bellwether for popularity
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:15 (fourteen years ago)
the sisqo test
he puts the q back in q score
i mean pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown, any tv show or movie could show a black guy with blonde or silver hair acting a fool and everyone on earth would know they were parodying sisqo without any further context clues. if someone on a sketch show dressed up like kreayshawn, 95% of the audience would think they were supposed to be ke$ha, gaga or amy winehouse.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)
I'm mostly on Al's side in this debate, but I'm hesitating b/c my wife is a big fan of "Gucci Gucci."
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)
yeah but...your wife was familiar with "thong song," right?
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)
i mean having an article in a mag as big as GQ that spends its whole length explaining who you are and how you became known basically = plenty famous but not really all that famous
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)
Oh, of course.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)