The artist Andy Warhol famously said that he thought everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes, and with the increasing power of the internet, that’s more true today than ever. Anybody with an internet connection and a computer can now become a cewebrity.
A cewebrity is somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the internet, an internet personality who crosses over to the mainstream. A web celebrity. A cewebrity.
As people rely on the internet more and more for their entertainment needs, it is becoming increasingly attractive as a platform for new writing, music, film, and art. The writer Stephen King has published books only on the internet and some musicians get a recording contract through the popularity they build up on the web.
Recently an American newspaper, the Seattle PI [Post-Intelligencer] decided to abandon its paper copy and only publish online. As its audience grows, the internet is becoming more powerful in making people famous, and some videos which are posted on the internet become incredibly popular, being seen by millions of people in a short space of time. This is an age where a video of someone dancing and pretending to sing a famous song can get them an appearance on TV shows and magazines. It’s an age of cewebrity!
Source: Learning English
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