Are Tron Guy and Xkcd the Future of Celebrity?

April 30, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

If you ever watched the Star Wars Kid and Homestar Runner, or gawked at the Tron Guy and Web comic Xkcd, you’re changing the future of celebrity. You’re building a world where Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise will be replaced by captioned pictures of cats and clever comics about algebra. At least, that was the premise of a conference held over the weekend at MIT called ROFLCon, which brought together the Web’s most famous meme-disseminators to prove that In The Future, Fame Will Be Different. Will it really?

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Tagged with: Annalee Newitz, Gary Brolsma, i09, Numa Numa, ROFLCon, Star Wars Kid, Tron Guy, Xkcd

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