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Crying While Eating
Daniel Engber, a New York writer, explains
how he created the Internet hit website
Crying While Eating in this
confessional piece on Slate. Crying While Eating features pictures and videos of people crying while eating food. Engber launched the site in an effort to win a
$2,000 prize in a website contest. In the process his girlfriend's picture ended up on a Japanese
sex website. But he did create a website that was very popular -- at least for a little while.
It's easy to look back and see why Crying, While Eating did so well, at least for a time. It's a simple concept. It's interactive. It makes you laugh and feel uncomfortable at the same time. But there are two parts to contagious media. You have to make something that people want to spread around, but unless you're as lucky as the Star Wars kid you also have to do a little of the spreading yourself. CwE got lots of free publicity because it was an entry in a contest; if Casimir and I tried to make another contagious site, we'd have to do that legwork for ourselves. I don't know if we could pull it off. It seems like a real pain in the ass.Engber did not win first place, but he did win two $1,000 prizes. And he's promised his girlfriend a fancy dinner to make up for putting a photograph of her crying while eating food on the Internet. Posted on June 26, 2005 blog comments powered by Disqus |
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