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OMFG.  This movie was amazing.  It has easily become my favorite “superhero” movie by leaps and bounds.  Holy crap.  Every bit of this movie was amazing.

I admit to not ever really being super into comics, so I’m not really super knowledgeable on Iron Man but wow, doubleyou oh doubleyou.  This was so much fun.  Spiderman was originally my favorite because of the swoop factor and how badass he was, but I’m digging the genius ladies man awesome guy more then emo kid QQ.

Stay till after the credits.  Holy shit.  Ho Le Shit.

A group of boys has been involved in bullying others, and officials said their actions have included physical attacks, taunting and sexually harassing victims by making their crotches touch other boys’ heads while fully clothed — something apparently inspired by the Halo video game series, in which players can perform a posturing move over a defeated enemy.

Yessssssssssssssssss

So some dude took the time to arrange some sheet music for Still Alive, and performs it via piano:

Piano - Still Alive (The song from Portal)

Then this cute geeky girl takes the time to drape herself in wires and sing it in front of the entire internet:

Still Alive Cover

Then a bunch of people pounce on her and make fun of her in the typical mean YouTube fashion.

Then Jonathan Coulton said:

Really? This is a good use of your time, to make someone you’ve never met feel bad just because they made an amateur fan video about something they really like? Where’s your thing that you made and put online for everyone to see, you chicken-shit cockhole?

My hope is that the rise of amateur content and all these channels dedicated to circulating it is creating a race of super humans who have extra thick skin. At least it’s a fluid enough medium that you can find your people as easily as you can find the haters - you can see Cupcake’s community/fans coming to her defense in the YouTube comments, and hopefully she takes enough pleasure from that to offset bad stuff. It takes a lot of guts to put yourself out there. Believe me, I know, I spent nine years in a day job because I was afraid to do it. So it drives me nuts to see people lobbing bullshit negativity into the crowd - if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. And if you don’t have a piece of yourself to contribute, keep quiet. The rest of us are working here.

Then Wil Wheaton said:

Not that my opinion matters at all, speaking as someone who’s endured something similar for two decades, I deeply respect the courage this girl has to create something like this, and put it out on the Internets where chicken-shit cockholes can take cheap shots at her from the safe anonymity of their own miserable little lives.

Then Tron Guy said:

About all anyone can do in the face of it is to ignore the Slashdotters and Farkers and SomethingAwful forum goons and 4chan idiots and all of the other Internet kiddies who can’t do anything on their own, but sure can spew out all of the hatred and derogatory comments anyone has ever thought of.

Unfortunately, he’s preaching to the choir: those who need to hear his message are exactly those who will ignore it.

Then uh… I said:

For as self-conscious doing this kind of stuff would make it, it’s really inspiring to know that all the internet fuckwads are actually really just a minority, and ultimately people want to be entertained and see you succeed.

Edit:
Heheh, yay, then CupcakeAndTea commented on my blog:

this is cupcake the girl in the video saying thank you :) in some sense i feel like i’m making people realise internet hatred is stupid which is great. And i wish people would understand i never ever ever though i would even remotely be considered to be on a top 12 anything or even being blogged about thank you

So a few months ago, I heard in mumbling that there was some sort of “Internet humor convention” called LOLcon or something. After some futile research I came up with nothing…

But I was just presented with the link of links this morning. Behold ROFLCon,

basically an ‘internet meme convention.’ I can’t believe it… haha. Look at the list of confirmed guests.

Lastly, this particular activity sums up how this is going to be an amazing and weird event that I can’t afford to miss…

8-? — Party of the Internet 2008 — Every internet meme, ever. In one room. Partying out. Promise: they will be cranking that soulja boy.

I am going, tickets and hotel are booked. See you there.

I want to be Neil when I grow up. He’s a constant source of inspiration and awesomeness.