Kanye West has had enough – the numerous twitter streams in his name are driving him crazy. King of CAPS, he blogs “I DON´T DO TWITTER!” He urges the people at Twitter to shut down all the fake Kanyes. Kanye West does not have the time for real-time tweets, he continues, his blog is more than enough.
“More than enough” hitting the mark perfectly. Recently, Marcus Troy earned his 15 microseconds of fame by fessing up that he’s been Kanye West’s ghostblogger, services that came to good use for example when the good Mr. West was in custody for battering a paparazzi. Kanye takes his blogging very seriously, but is busy to the verge of exhaustion. A ghost blogger seemed like the only solution.
Seemingly, Kanye’s suffers from the Expectations society threath to public health I’ve been writing about earlier – blogger burn-out. Keeping the next opera alive, constantly fighting to stay interesting, people become their own worst stalkers, turning into blogarazzi in relentless pursuit of new interesting stuff to reveal about themselves. Welcome aboard, Kanye! Find comfort in the fact that there are several thousands self-help groups on the web for blogger burn-outs.
And why don’t you take your old nemesis 50 Cent with you? In contrast to you, he does in fact do Twitter. Rumours has it, he employs two ghost tweeters…
In the world of any, anyone, YOU, can be Kanye or 50 Cent. And get paid for it.
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To be honest, I think Kayne West is missing out on a great opportunity with his protests. If only he could distance himself from what is written and see it a little more in terms of fiction storytelling he has the perfect marketing arsenal in his fans who pretends to be him.
This was also one of my points in the comment about Shakespear last week. A great way to keep feeding a success I believe is to create what I call a universe. There is a lot of examples, like the Matrix, Harry Potter (with all the fan fiction online) and Star Wars and Star Trek being two offline examples that seem to have made the transition to the net perfectly well.
Now Kayne West has the opportunity to let his trademark universe expand by getting help from his fans pretending to be him. After all, does it really matter if what is said is true or not? Everybody knows not to trust media anyway and everybody loves a good story, even up to this day. And by distancing himself he may even have a few good laughs.
Bigge,
I really like your franchise thinking. And we’re both on the same page – in the world of any, anyone can be Kanye. Period. Whether Kanye likes it or not.
emvehå,
MD