DE: Those 15? They're up.

[bjornwilde]

 I had planned on today's DE to be how your pup trusted larger groups (sports fans, police, government, etc.) but, in writing it up, I realized I've already asked this recently enough that I remembered Ben's answer centering on the SHRA. So let's try something a little more light hearted.

Andy Warhol once famously said, "Everyone is famous for 15 minutes". Through no fault of their own, and a heavy dose of suspension of disbelief in some cases, your pup has become an internet sensation. Is it a Youtube video? Or, if that is pushing the SofD too far, how about a meme? Or have they written a mini essay that's gone viral?

Lost for ideas? Post in with your pup and we'll give ideas!

Comments

[damncompass]

Joshua is likely an internet sensation for physics videos that he's posted on Youtube (think Charlie McDonnell's Fun Science or the Vlogbrothers' Crash Course stuff). He would totally not realize it until his sister checked his comments/views and asked him when the hell he became an internet celebrity.

Helena... I have no clue. I strongly suspect it has something to do with someone finding out that HG Wells was actually a woman, and Helena writing about it.

[sdelmonte]

Funny thing is that most of my pups are well known without the Internet. Cyborg is world famous as a hero. Kirk is a media sensation of sorts for saving the world twice (that the public knows of) and for that first five year mission. Howard Stark is on the social pages often, in the business pages often, and most likely in Movietone News.

Knox isn't quite so well known but he has a newspaper column, which includes his photo. I guess one of his stories could get a lot of hits during the decade or so when his paper offers Internet content for free.

Charlie is more an urban legend than a famous hero, but blurry photos of The Question and the occasional video of him have been in circulation for years.

Which leaves Gibbs, in the 18th century. No internet, or fame, for him.

[gavin62truck]

I'm sure somebody would've posted a video on YouTube of Tommy making a daring rescue. It would probably be titled "omg crazy fireman jumps 12ft from window to ladder MUST WATCH." Either that or a news clip of him trying to choke a local politician.

[whatisastiles]

I vote for the choking.

[gavin62truck]

I just remembered another clip that would go viral: he cursed out a reporter and everyone on her news crew before flipping the bird on national TV. Seriously, never let Tommy get anywhere near a news camera.

[cameoflage]

I'm going to blame the Masters of the Bazaar, who are the main people in the Echo Bazaar world who have Twitter accounts in the 19th century somehow (they were asked how that worked and gave cagey responses; I'm not sure if having twitters is canonical for the game but it's a precedent), and with whom Thurlow occasionally socialises, for posting whatever made them an internet sensation. Specifically, it seems like exactly the kind of thing Mr Wines would do.

The actual content is probably them complaining colourfully and animatedly about whatever's been troubling them.

Aradia makes an impressive set of haunted ruins in Minecraft.

[cameoflage]

I was going to post a comment about how someone had probably animated a Homestuck video of Thurlow's rant coming out of Karkat's mouth, but then I remembered that I also played a Homestuck character and it all got weird.

[jjprobert]

Bean actively avoids fame. Until that, you know, saving the world by being part of Ender's Jeesh thing. Even then, no one knows what he looks like. The vids have his voice on them, and they know his name, but few people know his face. That's his internet sensation. Then, of course, he becomes commander of the Hegemon's military.

Erik is probably caught on camera at the top of Stark Tower, after the Chitauri invasion, which someone uploads and goes viral, 'who is that man?'

Alfred, much like Bean, actively avoids fame. Possibly, he'd get it for an obituary he wrote for Thomas Wayne. Otherwise, he, just maybe, would be persuaded to do an AMA on the fact that he was Batman's batman, post TDKR.

Jack and Max are less active in their avoidance of fame, but they aren't keen on being traced, so internet use isn't particularly prevalent. However, Jack's would probably be a video of him doing something 'impossible', like climbing over a near smooth wall, or something similar.
Max's would probably be a short essay on duality, or something similar.

[whatisastiles]

Carol actually is famous already? But lets see, if she were too become viral somehow, I feel like it would be for either a video of her doing something dumb or clumsy or alternately have a photo of one her derpfaces become a meme—the opposite of ridiculously photogenic guy or somesuch. (Her heroics and amazing powers? That's just everyday.)

Lady Mary would make a cutting remark about someone at a party (let's be real, it'd be a cutting remark about Edith), which was inadvertently captured on someone's iPhone and uploaded. Battle lines are drawn between Team Mary and Team Edith. Some people think Mary's hilarious, some think she's a bitch.

Stiles... hahaha. So Dylan O'Brien actually had his own YouTube channel before getting the job on Teen Wolf. His most well-known video features him wearing his sister's shirt and lip synching to the Spice Girls. So yeah, probably something stupid like that. Scott is probably involved, whether he wants to be or not. Actually, the video quite possibly involves Stiles roping Scott into stupid werewolf tricks.

Re: Carol

[bjornwilde]

I seem to recall a photo of her daring rescue of Wonder Man which involved a lot of lip locking. ; p

Re: Carol

[mighty_avenger]

Oh, right. Wonder Man. I tend to have selective memory when it comes to Simon, i.e. I find him boring and mostly forget he even exists.

Re: Carol

[justdyedit]

I don't think you're alone in that.

[bjornwilde]

Okay here we go...
Ben's 15 millions hits of infamy is from a video of a prank the Yancy Street Gang took of him. This is canon thanks to Matt Fraction. I think it was a bag of flaming poo with super glue which stuck to Ben's foot.

Hank McCoy's (using a heavy dose of handwaving disbelief) is likely a chemical experiment gone wrong when Raven distracted him at a crucial moment. It's nothing dangerous but it is spectral; like the menthos/diet coke. Not handwaving disbelief, I would say the are some amateur Super8 film of him. It is very blue, blurry, and jumpy; and has started a myth of an urban Sasquatch.

Jessica Drew's is likely from a long night of karaoke, when she managed to Rick Roll Carol (or some other hero if Carol-mun doesn't like the idea).

The internet is long gone in Andrea's canon but if it still existed, her claim of infamy would be her in a bikini, holding another gal's head under the water of a hot tub screaming, "Who's digging for clams now?!?" while Raphael laughs his ass off in the back ground. This is canon and I will get there.

[no_more_hiding]

You know, if Erik could relax a bit, I could see him trolling Hank by messing up the experiments of Hank's Youtube HepScience channel during filming.

[ask_the_right_questions]

I take it you mean Lensherr, not Selvig, there...

Not that Dr Selvig wouldn't, necessarily, but, I have another who feels a more likely prankster.

[no_more_hiding]

Oh, yeah, sorry. :-)

[damncompass]

Joshua and Hank should team up and do science-y Youtube videos. They'd be amazing.

[alexiscartwheel]

Ahahahahaha. That is just the type of terrible joke that Carol would appreciate. And also facepalm about.

[herr_bookman]

Oh, I have no idea. Likely something stupid involving massive property damage and the accidental death of several chickens.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve has appeared in comics, newsreels, articles, trading cards, a traveling USO show...and that's canonically. In the modern era, I'm sure plenty of people have captured him saving the day on their cellphones and posted the footage on Youtube. People get tattoos of the shield. He's about as famous as he can stand.

Everybody in Ooo knows who the Ice King is. Unless he shaves his beard--then he's practically unrecognizable.

Lydia: I can see her doing a video series of some kind, part diary to document her studies, part advice column, and getting internet-famous for that.

Merlin: you know, in that long wait that he has until the return of Arthur, I can easily imagine him using his magic to help people in disasters, and he'd be filmed more and more often as time goes on until he practically becomes an urban legend. Like, if you're in trouble, a bearded old man with golden eyes will come to help you...ooo. I smell plot. Hm.

Bilbo! Can't believe I almost forgot him. He's more notorious than famous in the Shire after his adventures. Ringbearer is a pretty hefty piece of fame to carry around, too.

[boomsticking]

Clem is on a candid reality show. It portrays her veeeery poorly.

Dix has her regional fame.

Jules has been in the paper more than once over the Yin and Yang cases.

Pinkie's all have to do with saving Equestria from doom.