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He appeared with Katy Perry during her SNL performance of 'Swish Swish,' pulled some kickass moves and now he's an internet sensation. This show is now formatted to live on in YouTube clips, and that's how we found out about Backpack Kid. In fact, the 'Saturday' part is pretty redundant too.

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You werk it on Instagram, rack up thousands of followers and score a contract to Live Your Best Life.īackpack Kid: Watching 'Saturday Night Live' on TV is passé. Bringing on a YouTube star? Step one to making your music video another YouTube hit.ĭexter Mayfield: You don't score a modelling contract by walking the streets of Manhattan. It's not all Bieber-esque singers being found by talent scouts, there's a legit career to be made in filming yourself watching videos of stuff.

But we're finally watching good TV again.Ĭhristine Sydelko: A standout from the YouTube generation. Now his internet show has made him famous enough on the internet to do other stuff on the internet. Gaten Matarazzo: aka the adorable Dustin from 'Stranger Things,' a TV show made for the internet.

The Meme Team: Katy Perry, Dexter Mayfield, Gaten Matarazzo, Christine Sydelko, Jenna Ushkowitz and Russel 'Backpack Kid' Horning. Remember Old Spice, the deodorant your grandfather used? Yeah, turns out that got cool again. Terry Crews: This guy pivoted his NFL career into traditional network TV and Hollywood movies, but he's also super swoll (read: muscular) so he carved out a new career in going viral on the internet. Baby Boomers just wish they'd pay to watch it. Hafþór Júlíus 'Thor' Björnsson: The 6 foot 9 inch-tall Mountain from ' Game of Thrones.' Katy sings for millennials. Lesson? Complaining IRL gets you nowhere: Tweet it and they will come. #NuggsForCarter: This is a kid who won a lifetime supply of Wendy's nuggets by tweeting at the company, and now he's appearing in the first few seconds of a music video from one of the world's biggest pop stars.

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Let's unpack how the internet works, how to get famous on social media, and why it's all about who you know, not what you sing. I see pure internet, and that shit is off the chain. You see a confusing palimpsest of cultural meaning.

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'Watching this video is like mainlining the caffeine-sweat of a room full of ad execs, desperate to add in another product placement or topical reference for cashed-up Kids These Days. 'Swish Swish' is the third music video for Perry's hotly-anticipated album 'Witness' (after 'Chained to the Rhythm' and 'Bon Appetit') and hoo-boy it's certainly something. And Katy Perry's new music video is its glorious victory song. We've come a long way from the early days of music videos - when The Buggles became the first band ever aired on MTV and 'Video Killed the Radio Star' sounded like shots fired against the analogue generation.

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