Heck, not only are there desperate singers, cartoonists, writers, etc. happy to give away samples of their wit, there's plenty of hobbyists who just do it for a "nice comment" on FACEBOOK (or Twitter, etc. etc.)
And let's not even rant about YOUTUBE (owned by Google) or GOOGLE itself, which will help you find those illegal downloads you've heard so much about.
Everybody's a comedian. No wonder MAD magazine is, what, quarterly?
Just a quick check on FACEBOOK and there's DOZENS of ha-ha aggregates who spend their time gathering up funny fotos from forums and from blogs JUST to save you the time and get you to LIKE them...
If you don't know enough well-meming MEME people to email you "look what I just found" stuff you HATE, you can forage around for more like-minded funny folks who scrounge around for things to entertain you FREE.
Here's another aggregate you can follow. If one day's gag doesn't amuse you, "tomorrow's another day."
Copyright? Buying a book of cartoons? Frankly, my dear, why should you give a damn?
At one time the bookstore had an entire NOVELTY section. It was loaded with COMEDY books, including books of funny foto captions, and parodies of other books, and of course, CAT stuff (imagine famous poems as written by CATS!) Now? Mommy, what's a bookstore?
FACEBOOK of course is noted for their insane "appreciation" pages. You name the obscure performer, there's some obsessive-compulsive ADD bunch of autistic fans to spend their time monotonously posting whatever they've GOOGLED.
You know THOSE groups...
The only downside to wasting your life in one of THOSE groups, is you might run afoul of some ULTIMATE FAN who will take offense and start stalking you with trollish insults and insinuating questions. Like, "This is the VERONICA Cartwright appreciation society, and YOU are mentioning ANGELA way too much, Sir." PS, if you happen to show off your stacks of Jack Benny VHS and DVD (you collect BOTH because of the covers) and yours is BIGGER than the ULTIMATE FAN's, be prepared for WAR. This includes finding that anything you NEED for your collection you better SNIPER on EBAY and hope the ULTIMATE FAN doesn't OUTBID you.
But I digress.
The JOY of FREEEEEEE is that it's not limited to just the current flavor (you DON'T care about Taylor Swift do you?) You can find a pack of snickers who share your love of...Shemp's face. You and your group-mates can swap Photoshop jobs. Quite a FREE hobby!
Ah, the EASY to find FREE stuff on FACEBOOK.
I could go on to talking about forums, Instagram, Twitter, blogs such as this where somebody is trying to get noticed to POSSIBLY get somebody to buy a book or something...
Does this hurt anybody? The Internet? FREE? Surely not.
"What is your Kerfuffle," people say to actors, writers, singers, and others who network to try and get a network TV appearance or paid assignments, or somebody to buy their product or to book them, "just keep giving away samples, free."
You know, like a new restaurant does a coupon, "get to know us, buy a meal get one free." Only they don't say "eat free and if you like it, pay for it," and they don't run coupons FOREVER.
FREE! It's the way it should BE for YOU AND ME.
Folks say "Entertainment should be free. Keep your day job" to someone who wants to make a career out of what's being given away. Most artists will tell you it was tough BEFORE the Internet to make a living, and now it's just about impossible. But that's their problem!
Your problem is just, how much FREE TIME do you have for all this FREE STUFF?
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