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An Internet celebrity is an unemployed person, often a student, who is widely known among the members of an e-subculture or clique. The term itself is a misnomer because people who use the internet are not popular IRL. Most Internet celebrities have more friends on their LiveJournal friends list than anyone else, and it is to these vaunted heights of e-fame that all self-respecting attention or comment whores aspire.

Internet celebrities think that they are funny, witty and e-popular, but in truth most people just want to sleep with them. Some Internet celebrities mistake themselves for actual celebrities, but it is important to remember that even such individuals as Cory Doctorow are only known within a very small circle of Internets-savvy people. Get over yourselves. Kibo was one of the first Internet celebrities.

Andy Milonakis started out like that, but once everyone found out he was some freak adult they realized his show was based on faggotry.

So pretty much, internet celebrities are basement dwelling losers who, IRL, never have and never will do anything real with their lives.

1 E-Fame
2 How to Become an Internet Celebrity
- 2.1 How to Maintain E-Fame: Doing it Wrong
- 2.2 How to Maintain E-Fame: FUCKING WIN
3 Notable Internet Celebrities
4 See also

[edit] E-Fame

If you can't get famous in real life, your only alternative is to be an attention whore engaging in shameless self promotion until you achieve the fine heights of e-fame, a celebrity in the electronic alternative reality that is teh internets.

Marks of e-fame include having more people on your Livejournal Friendslist than anyone else, having your posts featured on LJ Drama, and of course having your own entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Also, crying over Britney is highly recommended. Failing even that, championing the cause of the Furluminati is another way to raise your e-fame to OVER 9000.

If none of the above work, then obviously the only things your are good for are spreading the diseases of both AIDS and epic phail

[edit] How to Become an Internet Celebrity

Make a video BAAAWWWWW-ing about your favorite IRL celebrity.
Pretend to be an intellectual by posting controversal videos on YouTube.
Find a young child with a speech impediment
Draw popular anime characters having animal buttsecks
Do it for the lulz

[edit] How to Maintain E-Fame: Doing it Wrong

Because there are so many naughties and Lulz-worthy shit clogging up the internets like a burger in an American's arteries it's hard to maintain the open-mindedness and "uniqueness" that made them celebrities in the first place:

Declare war on ED.
File a lawlsuit against all the haters.
Leave the internet forever . . . again and again and again and again.
Make half a dozen different accounts (No - these aren't sockpuppets. Sockpuppets are made so no one knows who you are. These accounts are made to escape the haters but they cannot resist the e-fame for long).

[edit] How to Maintain E-Fame: FUCKING WIN

Gary Brolsma, creator of Numa numa, definitely lost at the internet

Penis enlargement makes your E-Penis bigger, thus automatically making you win the internet.

There are about as many ways to win at the internet as there are internets. Here is a partial list:

Gain ePoints
Gain eProps
Gain NeoPoints
Gain Man points and enter the leaderboard
Receive an Internet check
Winning an Internet lawsuit
Fifty Hitler Post
Playing 50 straight hours of Starcraft
Completing Battletoads without using any continues
Thinking with Portals
Pwning all the members of a forum with one post
Pwning an annoying user of a community by photoshopping their picture with as many shock images as possible [1]
Two words: free porn.
Respond to "tits or GTFO" with any option other than GTFO.
Call yourself by a random letter and declare yourself WIN.
Ask a celebrity to have sex with you to prove a point. [2]
Megaloading a site into oblivion.
Defeat the end guy (WARNING: He's hard).
Don't play WoW.
Rickroll a Major League Baseball team.[3]

Also, though it seems paradoxical, sometimes people work towards getting banned from a specific part of teh interWeb. If that's your sorta thing, fine... you win the prize.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- WarGames

[edit] Notable Internet Celebrities

Chris Crocker Dangerously flammable faggot.	TheAmazingAtheist Pseudo-intelect	girlvinyl Queen of teh internets	Angry German Kid Male equivilent of Chris Crocker	Tay Zonday Final boss of the internet
MRirian	Snapesnogger Self-Appointed Tartlet Dictator	Tara Gilesbie	Jameth Currently busy getting fucked in the ass.	Cory Kennedy
Kiki Kannibal	Iain Hall	Ex-Raye	Violet Blue	Cory Doctorow