Thank Goodness, Lava.

So, The King of the Blog and I were playing the original Super Smash Brothers yesterday (On the N64, which is his forte) and I accidentally fell off the side in the Brinstar map. Lucky for me, the lava was there, so I hit the lava, took a lot of damage, and flew up into the sky, hence the title.

Enough about random inside jokes. On with the post. Today, I will be discussing something very dear to me; something that may also be dear to you: The Internet. More specifically, I'm going to be talking (ranting) about how TV ruins the Internet's memes and cultures. For reference, here is a video on Youtube that I'm sure you all have heard/seen (Bed Intruder) and here's a recently remade version sponsored by 'Lopez Tonight' (Chimney Intruder).

Are your ears bleeding yet? Good, then explaining this will be much easier. That was awful. Like seriously, television, stay away from mai interwebs!!! lol, but seriously, they really tried hard to make a funny parody, but it just didn't work at all. Herein lies the fundamental problem that businesses, television stations/programs, etc... have: they don't know how to branch out into the internet. Here's the other problem: no one who uses the internet cares about them unless they specifically search for their site. If I'm just browsing the internet, I don't care about your television program. Moreover, if you shove it in my space by spamming ads, I'm going to hate your show/product, which is the opposite of what they want. No one cares about their Facebook pages either. Really, there are two types of people that become fans of these people online: their hardcore fans, who they don't need to reach out to, and people that 'like' their page in order to win a prize or something (occasionally fan pages on Facebook offer prizes to random fans of their page). And, a lot of the updates are just annoying, so people 'hide' them from their newsfeed.

This is a huge problem for businesses because the Internet is possibly the single greatest way to advertise and expand one's user base. The problem is, no one knows how to use the Internet to accomplish this. The end result is that the business spends a bunch of money that results in a little attention and a lot of frustration.

Sorry about the short post, but it's Christmas Eve, and I have things I want to do. I promise next week's post will be better.

Hide yo children,
The Professor of the Blog