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Yiraika Daimaru
WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog.[3] Founded in 2005, the site averaged 1.2 million unique visitors a day in 2011.[4] The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC,[5] was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat.[6] Described by Vibe as a "remnant of the Geocities generation", the site regularly features shocking events caught on video, music videos and assorted content targeted to young audiences. O'Denat who referred to himself as a "Haitian ghetto nerd",[7] described WorldStarHipHop as the "CNN of the ghetto".[8]
The website first became infamous for posting shock videos.[8] Many of the early videos of shocking events had gone viral.[3] According to Gothamist's John Del Signore, "The site's popularity has created a sort of voyeuristic feedback loop, in which disassociated bystanders immediately videotape shocking incidents and act as if they're already watching a video on the Internet".[9] Jeff Himmelman of The New York Times stated in 2013 that the website "does many things but mostly hosts videos of fights."[10]
One 2012 video, showing an Elyria, Ohio (Greater Cleveland) woman, Tashay D. Edwards, beating another woman, went viral. Edwards became so well known that it trended on Twitter along with the name "WorldStarHipHop".[16] The video received about one million views in a single day.[17]
Bill O'Reilly attacked WorldStarHipHop and its president after watching a video of a kid talking about his plans to kill then-president George W. Bush. O'Reilly said, "I believe the Secret Service should arrest the parents of this kid and the purveyor of the website (Q)", calling it a "crime" that this was allowed up after the video was banned on other sites.[18]
WorldStarHipHop has been in cases involving lawsuits for copyright infringement. In one case, Scott v. WorldStarHipHop,[19] a video surfaced of a fight between a man (Scott) and his current and former girlfriend. The video was recorded by a Mr. Seymour and posted to the site. WSHH names the video "Disgraceful: College Fight In NYC Breaks Out Between A Guy, His Girl & Another Girl In Class! (Man Strong Arm's [sic] The Student. Hitting Her With Body Shots)." Shortly after the video was posted Scott was given copyright to the video by Mr. Seymour. He filed for a takedown notice so that WSHH would take down the video. He explained that WS did not have his permission to put up the video of the fight.
Rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) also sued WorldStarHipHop in 2009 for using his image on their site without his permission. Jackson claimed that WorldStar and O'Denat used his images on the website which led people to believe that he was one of the owners of the site. He explained that O'Denat tarnished his image by having his image up on the site without his permission. After a five-year battle, Jackson finally won the case against WorldStar.[20]
Perhaps the most history-making season was Season 3, set in San Francisco. Among the roommates was Pedro Zamora, a young, gay activist living with HIV. Television had never shown anyone like him before (and really hasn't since).
For cartoonist Judd Winick, being cast on the San Francisco season was life-changing. He and Pedro became close friends; he later wrote a graphic novel about him. Judd also met his wife on the show; today he and physician/medical researcher Pam Ling live in San Francisco with their two children.
Judd: Ooooh, boy. I suppose if I answered, "I still watch it!" that would come off slightly pervy at this time. I'd have to say the last time Pam and I really watched the show would be the New Orleans season. I'm thinking that was easily over 10 years ago.
I'd say we faded away as viewers. It wasn't a decision to stop. And it was always weird for us to watch the show. Our perspective is different. We've been to this rodeo. We were usually cringing as cast members would make mistakes that would haunt them. Y'know, yelling at the screen, "Dude, don't (expletive) on your Dad in an interview! That's Thanksgiving for the rest of your life!"
I remember the San Francisco season very vividly, particularly because of Pedro. For readers who may be too young to remember, maybe you can help explain what the political/social climate was regarding the AIDS crisis 20 years ago.
Simply said, in 1994 AIDS was still considered a death sentence. This was all before combination drug therapy. And at the time, the view, the image, the thoughts that the public held about people living with AIDS (PWAs) or HIV was extremely narrow.
This was not long after there were active debates around if PWAs should be allowed to use public bathrooms or water fountains. AIDS education, as well as sex education was awful. Condom availability was still being debated. Jesse Helms said on the Senate floor that people living with HIV should be tattooed to warn people of their status.
Most of the public had an image of someone living with AIDS that came from TV news stories or print news. It was usually pictures of men looking like they stepped out of Auschwitz, covered in KS legions. Simply said, HIV/AIDS was deeply fear, misunderstood, and hotly debated.
Pedro was soap-opera handsome, an educator, well spoken, and was the opposite of what people thought of when they imagined someone living with AIDS. It was really the first time most people saw someone with HIV who wasn't dying. And, he had a life. He had a job, friends, family, and the viewers watched him fall in love (with his boyfriend Sean Sasser). He changed people's views. He changed people's lives. And I mean that literally. Over the years, we have heard from/met ton and tons and tons of people who pursued AIDS activism, or became an educator or came out because of Pedro.
The horror of it all is that Pedro didn't get to continue what he started. The world met him, he struck the ground like a lightning bolt, and then he got sick. We moved out of the house in June of 1994, Pedro was hospitalized in August, and never recovered. He died on Nov. 11, 1994.
He's very much a part of lives. We went through this time together. It was supposed to be the beginning of a great many things. Pam and I fell in love, we got married, we have children. It still hurts us that Pedro's not here to share in our lives. I have a picture of Pedro in my office that (our cast mate, friend, bridesmaid at out wedding) Cori Murphy took when we were all in Hawaii. I see Pedro every day. Miss him. But I'm so grateful to have known him.
I'm so grateful to have been a part of this, and I shudder to think if I hadn't. I found Pam, this amazing, brilliant and beautiful person who I share my life with. We owe that to this TV show. And we know we owe a lot of that to Pedro.
I graduated college with a development deal from Universal Press Syndicate to do a syndicated daily comic strip based on my college strip. I was elated, I was full of myself, and my dream of being a syndicated comic strip cartoonist was being realized. Then, after nine months, they decided that the strip wasn't up to snuff and dropped me. I was devastated. I was one year out of college, no job, my dream evaporated, and I moved back in with parents. Proud days.
Then I was watching Season 2 of The Real World when an ad came on MTV asking, "Hey, would you like to be on Season 3?" Move to San Francisco, free rent, a chance to be on TV? Yes. I will try and do that.
Our Real World director, George Verschoor, told me, "The Real World will open doors. You still have to walk through them." That held true. I found that a lot of people knew who I was, but it didn't mean that they were going to give me work. But here's the true and embarrassing story of how I got into mainstream comics:
Anyway, Smith did not know me, even when I pathetically dropped what I thought was a hint when I asked him to inscribe the copy of the Clerks/Chasing Amy script collection to "Pam and Judd." He did inscribe a joke: "To Pam and Judd. Who gets the book if you break up?"
In short, Bob read the ashcan of Frumpy strips, asked if I'd do a strip for the inside cover on Oni Double Feature, and we became friends. About a year later, I gave Bob copy of the first or second draft of Pedro and Me, and Bob was enormously supportive. He said that in all due respect to my comic strips, "THIS is the kind of storyteller you are."
Anybody can be on The Real World. You don't need to do anything but show up. It's one of the few reality shows that features regular, non-celebrity people that isn't a competition. You just live in a house. It's NOT real life. But in the context of this setting, reality happens. But I'm biased. Our season changed lives.
From the starting point, step on the blue P-block to rotate the entire level, causing you to fall to a new platform. Fall down the trail of coins near you and avoid the electric enemy to grab the Green Star behind him.
Next, move to the left of the electric enemy, away from the group of 4 on the bottom floor, so that you can drop down onto a small raised enclosure on the far left side. Carefully move down the ramp and avoid the isolated enemy to get the Green Star behind him.
Head back up to the raised enclosure platform and drop behind the group of 4 enemies to reach the P-Block, and turn the level again. Go straight and fall down onto an S-like raised platform, but avoid the P-block here and move up the top ramp to get a Green Star on the far left platform.
Head back along the S-like platform to hit the blue P-Block, and rotate the level to where two electric enemies are side by side in the corner of the room. Dodge them between zaps to find a Green Star just around the corner.
Finally, head back past the two electric enemies to a small ramp leading to a final blue P-Block, but only tap it when the enemy on the nearby wall isn't in zap-mode, as you'll fall onto him from above. Grab the Green Star next to him after defeating the enemy.
The actress, who played Angela Moore on the popular '90s TV sitcom, said she began trying natural remedies such as elixirs one year ago as she and her husband Marcello Thedford started trying to conceive.
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