>>24246286>yet talentless hacks can still go viral on YT all the time, due to algorithm, explain that?It’s not just the algorithm and it has nothing to do with talent.
There is a whole field of science dedicated to the attempt to understand how these things happen: semiotics and, for the most part, you can’t even anticipate or manufacture a viral moment, you can only react to it and amplify it.
A good example is that Rebecca Black chick of “Friday” viral song: it spread EXACTLY because it sucked but she jumped at the opportunity, helped amplify it and must have made some money out of being the internet’s joke of the week.
Matt Furie (the creator of Pepe) on the other hand, completely failed to take any advantage of his creation and ended up spending the rest of his life so far trying to put the genius back into the bottle, while his creation was “hijacked” by the collective internet community to be used in a thousand different manners.
There is no talent need to go viral but lots of talent needed to make something out of your viral moments. Subaru inclined from a mid level 10k median chuuba into a powerhouse with a 20k+ median by doing just that, noticing what the audience wanted from her and doing it.
That’s why she became a talking duck and the “straight man” out of Pekora hijinks
