Bieber Fever
Lest all my references to the 80’s make people think this blog is anything less than cutting-edge, I’m here to supply some facts on the moy (man/boy) known simply as “Bieber” and his impact on social media.
- Two of the top ten most viewed videos on YouTube right now are Bieber songs (masterpieces?)
- “Baby” has more than 451 million views and “One Time” has over 213 million.
- The girl in the “One Time” video (Kristen Leanne ‘Rodeheaver’) has 66 thousand twitter followers and 8 thousand “likes” on her Facebook page.
- The intro to Kristen’s Facebook page says, “Hey guys, so you might know me from Justin Bieber’s music video, ‘One Time.'”
- So, we pretty much know that this is her only reason for having an obscene amount of followers.
- We don’t know why her last name is “Rodeheaver” or why it is in quotations on her page.
- Nonetheless, we really like it and think it is the same name as the pitcher in the movie “Rookie of the Year”.
- We also like her watch on her wrist in the video below.
- When I say “we”, I am really talking about “me” or “I”. There is only really one of “us”.
- “Bieber” has close to 7 million followers on Twitter.
- That is almost a quarter the population of Canada (33,739,900).
- “I” was 6,966,568.
His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms. He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner with dirtbags, both religious and irreligious. His closest friends were a collection of crude fishermen and cultural traitors. He felt the spittle of the Pharisees on his face and the metal hooks of the jailer’s whip in the flesh of his back. He got sweaty and dirty and bloody – and he took all of the sin and mess of the world onto himself, onto the cross to which he was nailed naked.