Hell, I didn't even know about the Canadian snowboarder.
I agree with you about jingoistic celebrity-driven coverage, and I think it's doomed to failure. People compete in the Olympics because you don't know who's going to win. So chances are your jingoistic celebrities are going to crash and burn.
I also think NBC is pissed at Bode because Nike withdrew a lot of their ads, since Nike's entire ad campaign was built around Bode. NBC lost lots and lots of money. But again, that's Nike's screw up, not Bode's. You build your entire ad campaign around one person, it's a crap-shoot -- not to mention stupid.
None of this is Bode's fault. Just because he's in the center of the media circle doesn't he's responsible for the hype. I suppose he could say no, but he didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
I guess I feel for Bode because I've been the middle of this sort of thing myself, in fandom. I've had someone rec my stories a lot because that person was a fan and happened to become really important as a story resource (because she was hard-working).
It got really weird for a while. I stopped reviewing stories because people would squee bizarrely that I reviewed their story. It was very uncomfortable to have my review considered more worthwhile than someone else's, especially when it was just a one-liner.
I had someone attempt to use me -- or rather the name 'Icarus' -- to bilk the fandom out of some money, using the fact that they hosted an archive of mine to advertise for more people, and then asking me to ask my f-list for money to help them "keep their archive afloat." When I refused, I got slammed as an "arrogant BNF" who didn't care. Eventually it was all exposed as a scam, but hell.
Then I've been slammed by people that I don't know and have no interaction with. There was an initial phase where I was a new writer and people wanted to encourage me. Then there was this phase where no matter what crap I wrote someone recced it, what I called the "shits gold" period. Now I'm in the phase where it's fashionable to rip my stories.
The only way I could control this process is to not write. But that's what I love to do. So I really feel for Bode. He just loves to ski.
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I agree with you about jingoistic celebrity-driven coverage, and I think it's doomed to failure. People compete in the Olympics because you don't know who's going to win. So chances are your jingoistic celebrities are going to crash and burn.
I also think NBC is pissed at Bode because Nike withdrew a lot of their ads, since Nike's entire ad campaign was built around Bode. NBC lost lots and lots of money. But again, that's Nike's screw up, not Bode's. You build your entire ad campaign around one person, it's a crap-shoot -- not to mention stupid.
None of this is Bode's fault. Just because he's in the center of the media circle doesn't he's responsible for the hype. I suppose he could say no, but he didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
I guess I feel for Bode because I've been the middle of this sort of thing myself, in fandom. I've had someone rec my stories a lot because that person was a fan and happened to become really important as a story resource (because she was hard-working).
It got really weird for a while. I stopped reviewing stories because people would squee bizarrely that I reviewed their story. It was very uncomfortable to have my review considered more worthwhile than someone else's, especially when it was just a one-liner.
I had someone attempt to use me -- or rather the name 'Icarus' -- to bilk the fandom out of some money, using the fact that they hosted an archive of mine to advertise for more people, and then asking me to ask my f-list for money to help them "keep their archive afloat." When I refused, I got slammed as an "arrogant BNF" who didn't care. Eventually it was all exposed as a scam, but hell.
Then I've been slammed by people that I don't know and have no interaction with. There was an initial phase where I was a new writer and people wanted to encourage me. Then there was this phase where no matter what crap I wrote someone recced it, what I called the "shits gold" period. Now I'm in the phase where it's fashionable to rip my stories.
The only way I could control this process is to not write. But that's what I love to do. So I really feel for Bode. He just loves to ski.
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