January 17, 2008

T-Shirt Documents Today’s Internet Microcelebrity

by Jeff Squires

bt-sunglasses-gallery-4886.jpgJust days after this video clip showed up on youtube, where a Spicoli-like character refuses to apologize (or take off his shades) for throwing a huge party while his parents were out of town, Urban Outfitters points out that a T-Shirt has already been created as a tribute to the kid who threw the most legendary party in all of Australian history!

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4 Responses to “T-Shirt Documents Today’s Internet Microcelebrity”

  1. Floyd Hayes
    Posted from: 68.161.244.192

    January 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    A legend.

    On a par with Britain’s own Rachel Bell (17) who managed to cause 20k (GBP) at her house party.

    Read the details and check out her glasses here:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=448334&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&ct=5&expand=true

  2. tony
    Posted from: 220.245.178.134

    January 17th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    http://www.slapcorey.com

  3. links for 2008-01-21 « Francis Anderson
    Posted from: 66.135.48.143

    January 20th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    [...] T-Shirt Documents Today’s Internet Microcelebrity Just days after this video clip showed up on youtube, a T-Shirt has already been created as a tribute to the kid who threw the most legendary party in all of Australian history! (tags: video youtube microcelebrity popculture socialmedia) Posted by francisanderson Filed in Uncategorized [...]

  4. Illegal Raves Making a Comeback? | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
    Posted from: 72.47.211.46

    August 25th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    [...] It’s also impressive that this party happened at all. In our hyper-connected age, within hours of being announced, potentially anyone could have found out about this secret party - including the police. Keep an eye out for more illicit gatherings in the future. Hopefully they don’t turn into another Austrailian kid incident. [...]

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