Operation Global Media Domination: the Banksy Situation
27 Sep 2008 28 Comments
in Art, Banksy, Blogging, Britney Spears, Celebrity, Culture, Fans, Operation Global Media Domination, Wordpress, geek, meme, raincoaster, statistics
For as long as I can remember (which, at my age, admittedly isn’t very long, perhaps twenty minutes at a time and then I need to take my rememberer out and let it cool down for awhile) on this blog the #1 post in terms of hits, year after year, has been Britney Spears Sex Tape, which, once I realized wasn’t Britney in it at all but rather someone else who looked like Honeymoon Britney (which many people would watch happily, I’m sure, over and over, the way they close their eyes and think of The Country or The Postman or The Hot Guy In Marketing Who Wears Those European Suits) I edited the title of to read Britney Spears (?) Sex Tape but it made no difference: they still kept coming.
So to speak.
Which reminds me of the ad I saw yesterday at the Skytrain station; the first ad for an “adult recreation” product I’ve seen in a mainstream location. It was for something called Stallion, and it was unspecific to the point of complete opacity. Basically, it just said “Men, buy this stuff right now.” That’s how I figured out it was dirty.
For I am way clever, yo.
But as I was standing there, running over all the stallion references in my head (alas, I’m not in top form when I’m on Concact-C, for the only thing I could think of was Bill and Ted’s band Wyld Stallyns) I saw some fine print at the bottom of the ad, and if there’s one thing I love, it’s fine print on adult product ads. No, really.
“Product contains Lidocaine.”
Topical anaesthetic. It’s the stuff I spray on my legs before waxing, to deaden the pain.
Whoa!
But (and not to make an abrupt transition, but whatever) now we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have encountered a phenomenon more powerful than a sloppy ersatz-Britney blowjob.
Behold the power of Banksy in Birmingham:
Banksy stats, baby!
And yes, that baseline is 2,000, not zero.
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:07:18
The Grateful Dead are most impressed! (one reference per comment thread – I know the rule)
Me? I’m total envy at those stats. I may turn my blog green.
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:09:34
Banksy = Blog Stats. Pure efficient genius.
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:12:37
Yep, I think I just became an art whore.
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:15:12
So, Bunk, are you converting your blog to street art now?
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:31:25
Yowza. Them’s some stats.
(As for “Stallion,” the name is perhaps less transparent than this product…)
Sep 27, 2008 @ 23:45:08
Do tell! Does it work?
Sep 28, 2008 @ 00:40:54
Naw, rain… I’m coverting it to flame wars (for obvious reasons).
Sep 28, 2008 @ 00:53:55
Makes sense!
Sep 28, 2008 @ 00:56:21
Uh, … bitch.
Sep 28, 2008 @ 00:58:53
Holy cats.
Sep 28, 2008 @ 02:40:26
Um… Ho.
Sep 28, 2008 @ 02:44:07
Did I just pwnd you? It was an accident.
Sep 28, 2008 @ 05:10:16
I am now officially green and chopping tentacles!
Sep 28, 2008 @ 06:58:14
This is just a ploy to get me to click on the Britney sex tape thingy to increase your stats. Well, OK, it worked. I also clicked on all the other stuff. Happy now? And I am also envious. Hell I envy your baseline. I would envy a base line ten times smaller. Now that we’ve established that you are queen of the blogs, I’ll go increase somebody else’s stats.
Sep 28, 2008 @ 07:03:04
Yay! What’s the use of being a stats whore if it doesn’t pay off?
Sep 28, 2008 @ 08:29:00
Very impressive indeed. But are you getting any sleep?
Sep 28, 2008 @ 10:35:02
I flatter that I agree with the perceptive SilberStern on so many things …. apart of course from Religion and Politics and whether the Kindly Mrs Palin should annoy Sea-Otters by allowing Oil-Drilling in Russian North-Amerika
BUT
Isn’t a certain Mademoiselle the Empress (not merely the Qveen) of Blogges
1911 hits required to reach a Magical Landmark
Ein Reich
Ein Volk
Eine RegenCoaster
Sep 28, 2008 @ 14:35:35
The last time there was a Brit/South spike like that was the Trent Affair, and WordPress wasn’t even around then.
Neither was the Internet, but that’s another matter entirely . . .
Sep 29, 2008 @ 01:19:27
Bitch.
Sep 29, 2008 @ 06:00:55
Poopieface! Don’t make me bring out the big guns!
Sep 29, 2008 @ 06:48:27
I be dissin’ the Finish Floor Elevation, not you, Goddess of the NW Wetness.
Sep 29, 2008 @ 09:01:38
Rain, a stupid question to be sure, but then again, I’m from beyond Squamish: why did it take two weeks for that spike to happen? You posted it on the 11th, the spike was on the 26th…
Sep 29, 2008 @ 19:23:12
I have no idea. Someone posted it to Stumble and it took off; then it got posted to reddit and did the same. I don’t know why it didn’t happen sooner.
Sep 29, 2008 @ 22:04:53
It’s made from real Stallions, so you know it’s good.
Oct 01, 2008 @ 16:29:50
your Banksy post was carried by BuzzFeed and i clicked through from the HuffingtonPost.
you probably got a lot of lookers based on that.
Oct 03, 2008 @ 13:34:46
Wow that is some pretty high stats there Congrats, :)
Oct 03, 2008 @ 19:44:57
Thanks!
I got secondhanded to the HuffPo? I should stop telling those nasty stories about Arianna’s past then.