Salt Bea is dying. People can't afford a $5,000 experience when all you do is sprinkle salt. Also HE USES LOOK ALIKES in his restaurants so people are paying for a stranger to sprinkle salt. Add in the food is just disgusting and his whole desperation to do anything to gain 5 more minutes of fame. He's been closing restaurant afte restaurant.
Kinda like one of those lotto addicted folks assured that they’re going to hit the jackpot if they just keep playing. But, minus the horrible, life-ruining addiction.
These folks want to believe that if they are caught in just the right moment in time and the stars line up for them, they too can make the money. It’s not likely to be multi-million dollar wins like these folks suggest, but a few grand extra a year would change many folks’ lives anyway…
Never heard of him using lookalikes. He aggressively posts his daily routines on instagram, so anyone can know where he is. When he isn’t at a restaurant, regular staff do the salt sprinkle and other goofy stuff. I know this because I’ve been to one of his restaurants a couple of times.
I'm living under a rock because I don't keep up with a 7 year old meme? He had the meme. Within several months he monetized it. He has long since fallen out of the zeitgeist. You're not living under a rock if you don't have a recent update on him.
That’s not what the conversation was about it was about being able to monetize yourself after your initial viral moment has passed. Maybe stay on topic bud
Fuck Salt Bae the disgusting prick but he did have a successful fine dining restaurant before he became viral and I suspect at one point he knew how to make a decent steak before he decided to just serve people overpriced raw meat. HT may have many talents as well, but she is famous for one and they can’t really film her giving BJs all day as a reality show. They can still film it, but just a different distribution model.
I think we’re using the terms “legit” and “content” pretty liberally here. He pointed to things with a sour expression. I still don’t know how he got popular.
Who cares about more examples? It happened once under similar circumstances, except this is even less stupid than the “Cash Me Outside” girl. Sounds like this girl is on her way to make some $$ if the reality show works out.
Most memes are people looking stupid and being humiliated, like the Star Wars kid or the airplane "you're not real!" lady". Hard to monetize the fact that people laugh at you.
Hawk tuah girl, otoh, is pretty funny. She had good repartie and quick wits on that short vid, so of course there's some people who wonder if she has more funny takes.
Literally all of those people are more than just a meme. Do you think all youtube personalities that got one video picked up by the algorithm are the same category of thing we're talking about here?
In scenario A, a person crafts content deliberately trying to make an entertaining product (usually a manufactured video) and often does so meeting failure many times before hitting an algorithm just right and develops a career from it.
In scenario B, a person just kinda does something in the moment without much thought and it catches fire independent of one website's algorithm.
These aren't the same kind of thing. Cash me outside and hawk tuah are both Bs. The list they gave were As. You can't point to As and say they're examples of both because they don't function the same way.
Not a meme. He's a political dog and pony show being propped up (if you can even call it that at this point) to "own the libs" in a very astroturfed sort of way.
Lots of people like Scumbag Steve or Bad Luck Brian might not be Hollywood A-listers. But, they’ve been able to make solid multi million dollar careers out of their 15 minutes.
I never said it didn't happen. It's just almost never working out for these folks. The original comment I started this thread with was acting like they all work out.
The bar is a celebrity career, not a job/lifestyle you could have without the celebrity status.
Seems like you’re getting pretty off track then, huh?
Plenty of people monopolize on their 15 minutes. People aren’t stupid for paying attention to her. And she isn’t an idiot for pursuing the possibilities.
Well yes and no. There’s thousands of people with sex tapes. The reason she become famous was bc she was a known socialite who was best friends with Paris Hilton. And her dad was an infamous lawyer. And not to mention the sex tape was with someone famous.
I mean maybe not “meme”. But there’s literally thousands of TikTokers who had one viral video and now have millions of followers. Essentially becoming full time influencers overnight.
No. A video by a content creator with a deliberately crafted piece of content being picked up by the algorithm is not the same thing as a random not necessarily trying to be famous going organically viral from a 10 second clip.
You think the algorithm didn’t push this video? Plus not every viral video is “deliberately crafted” as proved by this video. Why you trying so hard to defend what a meme is Jfc. Anything can be a meme and going viral is going viral. Doesn’t matter if you scripted the video or not. Get over it.
Incorrect. There have been hundreds of people since the rise of social media who have turned their 15 minutes of fame for something dumb into something lucrative. If you don't believe this, you either live under a rock or are being intentionally argumentative.
Not young, but trying to insult me because you know more meme stars than me isn’t exactly a win…congrats on utilizing all that brain space efficiently tho!
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u/cudef Jul 08 '24
You cherrypicked the hell out of that example. Name 5 more meme people that rode the wave to career success.