03.16.12
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From the interwebs:
“I wanted the views. I have to do things like torture myself to keep people watching,” says Colleen Ballinger, a 25-year-old comedian whose stage name is Miranda Sings, about her decision to upload her cinnamon challenge attempt. Ms. Ballinger makes money from a percentage of advertising on her YouTube videos. She has 90,000 subscribers to her YouTube channels and a total of 22 million views on her videos.
On cinnamon gulping — the entire piece.
From Rolling Stone, Billy Corgan at SXSW:
Corgan lamented changes in the way music is consumed that would’ve made it impossible for him to break into the record industry, much less become a prominent rock star.
After claiming that he would need to set himself on fire on YouTube to get noticed as an unknown act … He compared some artists to sex workers, saying that once you’ve score a record deal, “you’re just the fresh stripper.”