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Are Tron Guy and Xkcd the Future of Celebrity?

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? More »

8:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,472 views, 35 comments

Latest by jmaynard: @perun99: no one is aching to be with Tron Guy With all due respect, sir or ma'am: How do you know who does or does not want to be with me? @Metropolis: I know I really dont need to see the Tron more »