Viral, under duress

It's just all too much, this YouTuberant society. What with the eyePhones allowing video editing and uploads, dogs and cats with blogs and wannabe celebs posting film of their hissy fits over the latest American Idol winner. Things weren't always like this.

My comedy roots started with stacks of sketchpads and notebooks, carried in my Transformers (the TV show, kids) Trapper-Keeper, complete with new-fangled velcro enclosures. Then came the calculator craze, spelling "BOOBS" and "SHELLOIL" on the screen, garnishing amazement and applause from throngs of 11 year-old idiots.

After that, I lost count. It's been a virtual blur of made-up words, skinny people complaining how unfair it is that they only made $80,000 last year from their viral gossip blog, with 16 year-olds claiming ultra-celeb status because they have 5000 follows on Facebook.

And now, we all have to make videos. No more, is a pretty screen filled with paragraphs of funny acceptable to the Tweeted masses. "We have no time to read!" They say. "Tell us through YouTube, so I can watch it in line at Starbucks and post it to my FB page, while Tweeting it to my 32,785 follows.

So, in an effort to keep up with the soulless Joneses, I present this week's column, in handy streaming video format. I really hate the sound of my own voice.

Please Retweet.

GUH.



Corey "FRS" Pandolph writes and draws the Internationally syndicated comic strip, The Elderberries for Universal Press Syndicate, as well as the three webcomics, Barkeater Lake, TOBY, Robot Satan and Greene With Envy. Check out his blog at Fake Rockstar.com for additional Ridicularity™