In the comic I have chosen which is different from the previous blog post comic I wrote about. The new one is called ‘Internet Frame’ and was posted on June 2, 2009 by an unknown author. It’s about a girl dressed in a leaf dress and a ‘human type alien’ driving in a car talking about how the alien seen the girls video “The Safety Dance” on a YouTube website. The girl says that the alien was there….in real life. The alien tells the girl that reality is so 1.0 and says she’s hot. The girl asks how many hits did she get and the alien says 12, and only 10 were from him. When looking at this comic you may think it is just an ordinary car with a little animation having an alien and human girl in it, but they author is really using his imagination and incorporate YouTube into it.
The main point of the comic I have chosen for writing project number two is to make it funny and incorporate the website, YouTube. The basic understanding is YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, comment, and share video clips. YouTube can be uploaded by individuals, and some of the media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material for the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. (YouTube, Wikipedia) There are also several other websites for doing the same thing just a little bit modified such as Facebook, MySpace, photobucket, and Twitter. These websites were developed to form social networking that allows others to make connections with friends or relatives through the computer or internet. With the YouTube program you can even be an unsubscribed user to look at videos but to download you need to be a subscriber. The subscribing process is quick and painless.
YouTube was begun by three former employees from PayPal; Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The former PayPal employee’s story to start YouTube is said that it was started after a dinner party. Chad and Steve were having difficulties sharing videos to Jawed who wasn’t at the party, so with that said that is how YouTube came about. (YouTube, Wikipedia) The company is now based out of San Bruno, California. YouTube has become very popular since its debut in the early months of 2005. People are now posting more than just funny videos but also political and educational.
If you didn’t understand the cultural context of the comic, it wouldn’t make sense. It is because YouTube and the use of computers in general this it is such a huge part of the daily life that makes comics so amusing and appropriate. The author was able to successfully make fun of the animation and the popular new comings of YouTube. The way the comic is put together makes it funny, but if it was an ordinary picture it wouldn’t have been as funny and maybe people wouldn’t understand it in the right way.

Work Cited


BBC Strikes Google-YouTube deal. BBC News, Spring 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. .

"YouTube." Wikipedia. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. .

YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day. USA Today, 16 July 2006. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. .