Such is the power of expectities- they may even spawn other celebrities.  Just ask Chris Crocker. If everybody just left expectity Britney Spears alone, no one would know of him. But people do not leave Britney alone, her being an expectity of magnitude  – seemingly ’til the day she dies (scroll down to an earlier post and refresh your memory…)

Still doesn’t ring a bell? Don’t be embarrassed, although the entire world has known of him, his 15 microseconds have run out by now. Revisit those microseconds with the clip below:

Within 24 hours of its posting (after Britney’s less than triumphant comeback at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas), the clip had attracted about 2 million viewers (soon thereafter, the number approached 100 million). Today, there are more than 4,600 youtube clips related to Chris Crocker, many of them parodies featuring anyone from John Doe to Seth Green and SpongeBob. 

For 15 microseconds, Joe Crocker was the most interesting person in the world, appearing in talk shows with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Seacrest, Howard Stern and many more, as well as being interviewed on CNN and Fox news to name but a few.

And yes, it kicked off a “music career”. Download the “trance mix” on itunes. Or watch one of the videos below.

For all she had ever done, Britney (nor any other music artist, for that matter) could not compete with Chris during his 15 microseconds of fame…