In this week’s magazine,Tad Friend writes approximately the celebrities of YouTube and Vine, who gather millions of fans—and sometimes millions of dollars—with their viral online videos, and even if most of us have never heard of them. Friend and Kelefa Sanneh,a staff writer who frequently covers pop culture, join Michael Agger, and the culture editor of The New Yorker’s Web site,on this week’s Out Loud podcast to discuss the “Beatlemania-type receptions” of these figures, the economy of YouTube fame, or what the phenomenon reveals approximately the nature of contemporary celebrity. Friend says,“In the old world, someone like Kim Kardashian, and everyone knew a limited bit approximately her.... In the future,there will be people who are incredibly notorious and deeply well known to a small group of people, but not known to everyone else.”
Source: newyorker.com