Overly Positive

Sure, my small audience is probably not the type to be listening to this type of news, but for those that don’t know, last night’s MTV Video Music Awards had a bit of a highlight. Rapper Kanye West stormed onstage to interrupt Taylor Swift winning an award to protest (perhaps drunkenly) that fellow nominee Beyonce Knowles deserved to win instead.

First off, you would think that this would be a negative thing, and that it seems out of character that I’d post something so awful on my wonderfully optimistic, happy blog. But guys and gals – there’s still room for silver linings here. We all know that trolls, flamers, and haters on the Internet may perhaps have a little difficulty saying what they mean in situations that don’t involve a computer or a mask of anonymity. Today, they now have a role model to look up to inbetween bannings from forums with our friend Kanye.

I mean think about it – Kanye is not only not anonymous, but he essentially trolled the awards with his attention-whoring, sensationalist display. He also did it at the cost of someone else’s sense of achievement and time in the spotlight. Trolls, take some notes – that’s how you really troll a discussion, and you need to up your game, yo. For us non-trolling types, isn’t it great that we now have a picture to place next to the entry of “troll” in wikipedia or in the dictionary? I know I’m more excited and pleased for that since Homer Simpson’s “D’oh” officially became a part of our language. So yes – even in something like this, there are positive things to see.

Still, to make this relevant to geek media in general, I do have to say that all this hullabaloo over Kanye West trying to raid Taylor Swift is not surprisingly much of a care to geekery everywhere. No, it’s not because the MTV Video Music Awards don’t typically include Lord of the Rings songs. No, it’s not because geeks in general just might tend to disdain popular culture in general because of its supposed superficial tendancies.

The reason why I think geeks might be a bit “meh” over Kanye West’s actions is that he’s totally behind by months and even years. Geeks were on the trolling gravy train long before Kanye started failing to win music awards:

Good Loot:

Kanye, some geeks got the Douchebaggery title unlock long before you did. You’ve gotta start bringing your “A” game, man! Despite your apology, I look forward to your future depictions of trolling – a pic in wikipedia today, an image of yourself in Webster’s Dictionary tomorrow!

I love pop culture. Don’t you all?