Until recently, TV was the springboard for novice talents, but now, with the ubiquity of the Internet, the path to fame has become much easier - you just have to start a Youtube channel and surprise subscribers with something bold and original, as the heroes of our selection did.
Roma Acorn
Now posters with Roma Acorn can only be found in the provinces, but five years ago this young man, a pioneer of Russian-language video blogging, was on the crest of popularity. He posted mostly short parody videos, sometimes shared videos from travels or simply talked about sore spots. But then he switched to music, began to pay less attention to the Youtube channel and moved down from the first lines of the rating of popular bloggers by a couple of hundred positions.
Ivangai
Mariana Ro
Maryana Ro owes a lot to Ivangai with her popularity. The girl met with him for two years, and during this time the number of subscribers to her channel has grown from a couple of thousand to 4 million. The format of her channel is similar to what Ivangai does, but it has more content for girls: cosmetics reviews, makeup lessons, life stories.
Sasha Spielberg
This girl also shares make-up video tutorials with subscribers, plays Sims a lot and travels, and also sings well. She released several songs in both English and Russian, recorded duets with The Voice finalist Alexander Panayotov and DJ Leonid Rudenko. In 2016, Sasha Spielberg, along with Mariana Ro and Ivangai, starred in the film Hack Bloggers. According to Sasha's father, the girl earns more than a million rubles a month on her video content.
Sasha Spielberg and Alexander Panayotov - "I Promise"
Yury Khovansky
A millionaire video blogger who conquered the Internet with game reviews and entertaining videos with bold humor. Among the sensational projects of Yuri Khovansky is the rubric “Russian Drink Time” (reviews on alcoholic drinks), “It asked for it” (visits to fellow bloggers), and “Shawarma Patrol” (search for the best shawarma in St. Petersburg). Since 2011, he has led his own comedy show«Russian Stand-Up».
In the media, his name is often accompanied by the epithet "scandalous", since the young man has openly clashed with other celebrities more than once, such as Noize MC and Christina Si.
Denis Kukoyaka
Group "Bread" - "Tea, sugar"
Justin Bieber
At a young age, Justin Bieber was recognized as the highest paid pop singer in the world. From the age of three it young talent demonstrated outstanding musical and vocal skills. Having matured a little, Justin began performing on vocal competitions talents. One of the speeches was recorded on video by his mother. Fortunately for Bieber fans, she was a progressive woman and posted a video on YouTube, where it was seen by a music producer who spared no time and effort to find Justin.
The Internet is also a kind of show business, and there are the same stars and prominent figures.
For example, ZAZ (Isabelle Geoffroy) does not have a special music education. In 2009, ZAZ won a French competition for young talents, but it was the ubiquitous YouTube that made her truly famous. The video "Je Veux" instantly became a million views and brought ZAZ world fame.
The richest Internet celebrity of 2010 is 22-year-old American Shane Dawson. This comedian has not only become world famous thanks to his video parodies of popular stars, but has also earned $315,000 on YouTube over the past 12 months. Dawson's Internet career began at school. Shane and a few of his friends passed homework at school, not in writing, but recorded on video and posted on YouTube. Now his channel ranks third in terms of the number of subscribers in the history of video hosting. This year, Shane Dawson won the Best Internet Star award at the Teen Choice Awards, became the Best Vlogger of 2010, and Forbes magazine awarded him the 25th place among Internet celebrities.
One of the most successful Internet users of the year according to TubeMogul was Dane Bodigheimer from Denmark. He became famous thanks to the talking fruit - a series of videos called "Whining Orange" brought its author 350 million original views and 288 thousand dollars! Negotiations are already underway to create a television series with the talking fruits of Bodigheimer.
Another newcomer YouTube star- Philip DeFranco. His video blog commentary on international politics and show business has been viewed over 248 million times. At the same time, "the sexiest nerd in the world," as he was called by readers of the site Wired.com, earned 181 thousand dollars with the help of his online popularity.
Video Bed Intruder Song, “Song uninvited guest in bed", was recognized by YouTube as the highest rated independent video year - it was watched by more than 49 million people. The video was filmed by members of the American bands The Gregory Brothers by processing the voices with the Auto-Tune audio plugin. Video based on real story from crime chronicle: A black guy talks about how his sister was attacked by a rapist. Such a musical adaptation of news stories to music has already become a separate genre called Auto-Tune-the-News, and "The Intruder Song" is an example of this genre.
And, of course, Justin Bieber has been the absolute leader for several years now - young star all YouTube. The Internet found out about the talented boy a few years ago. Clip Bieber Baby became the most viewed in the history of YouTube - it was viewed more than 400 million times! However, this was not without purposeful advancement. Bieber got hyped by his mom. For about three years, she posted amateur recordings in which her son sang famous performers. And she got her way! Today, YouTube alone has accumulated 552,000 Bieber videos. He himself is already filming in real clips, a pretty teenager is being promoted by a well-known record company.
But in RuNet there is a different situation. As shown by the Russian top 10 YouTube, domestic netizens are inclined this year to the "social sphere". Internet discovery of 2010 - Igor Rasteryaev and his lyrical composition "Combiners". The St. Petersburg actor of the theater "Buff" became famous quite unexpectedly, posting on YouTube own song recorded in harsh home environments. New star Runet sings, dances, plays the button accordion perfectly; he scored about a million views, has the support of all combine operators in Russia and a tour program for the year ahead.
Another performer became famous this year throughout the Runet - Vasya Oblomov told about his difficult fate. Something subtly close to our man Internet hit "Going to Magadan" scored more than 800 thousand views.
The leader of the Russian YouTube is rapper Noize MC with the composition "10 Days (Stalingrad)", which gained about 2 million views. 25-year-old Ivan Aleksandrovich Alekseev tried himself in various guises, but he gained fame on the Internet under the pseudonym Noize MC, reading acutely social rap. The "chip" of the musician is the high speed of reaction to ongoing events.
And at the end of the year, when the Runet was no longer expecting any stellar surprises, the network was simply broken by a touching and slightly strange creative from the Ministry of Health. You still don't understand what in question?! Then SHE, along with kudyaplikami, comes to you!
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With the advent of the Internet, anyone has the opportunity to become famous on their own and very quickly. Sometimes it’s enough to post a video on YouTube or start Instagram with beautiful (or funny) photos. Beautiful melody, funny clip and witty posts grab attention and voila! - You wake up famous. Introducing five stars who have become super popular not so much because of their creativity, but because of online fame.
Justin Bieber
Probably the greatest success of the Internet has brought the Canadian Justin Bieber. When he was only 12 years old, he finished second at the Stratford song contest Stratford Idol, and his mother Mallett posted a video of her son's final performance on YouTube. This video quickly became incredibly popular. The young man, inspired by success, made several more recordings with his performance famous songs. These videos were watched by thousands of users, among whom was the producer Scooter Braun, who was just looking for new wards. He contacted the mother of a talented teenager and persuaded her to allow her son to come to the United States to make some demos on professional studio, and after the manager offered Justin a contract. A year later Justin's song one time became a hit, and four singles of the debut album hit the Billboard Hot 100 - the main US hit parade. Less than two years have passed since the moment when the first song of the young artist appeared on the Web, as he had millions of fans around the world.
PSY
Korean rapper Psy became known to the world thanks to the Gangnam Style video posted on YouTube. Park Chae Sang, that's the name of the singer, didn't expect anything special, as he posted his videos on the Web more than once over the past 12 years, but they did not bring success. Imagine his surprise when in just two weeks the video collected 8 million views. In less than a year, over a billion users have viewed this post. In December 2014 - two years after the video appeared on the Web - YouTube was forced to reset the counter because it scored maximum amount views - 2 147 483 647. Thus, the record became the most viewed in history and entered the Guinness Book of Records. The song took the first lines of the charts in more than 30 countries, and in Paris, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the largest flash mob in history took place: 20,000 people danced Gangnam Style. Gangammania also captured celebrities: Barack Obama, Madonna, Britney Spears and many others danced to the music of Psy.
Nastasya Samburskaya
Actress Nastasya Samburskaya became famous thanks to Instagram, which is now the most popular in Runet. was born future star in the small town of Priozersk Leningrad region When I was a child, I wanted to be a hairdresser. thoughts about acting career came later, and the girl went to Moscow. Samburskaya graduated from GITIS, the workshop of Sergei Golomazov and began performing at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. She became famous thanks to the series "Univer" on TNT. Nastasya also tried herself as a singer and TV presenter. However real glory she was brought a page on Instagram, where she uploads funny videos with herself in leading role, embodying the images of grandmother Kuzminishna, the funny Blonde, the gopnik Alyosha Typhoz and many others invented by her. Sometimes her photos and videos cause heated discussions, but the owner of the blog is not afraid to seem ridiculous or too harsh in terms.
Egor Creed
In Russia, the path of Justin Bieber was largely repeated by Yegor Creed. He knew from childhood that his career would be connected with music. Egor made many amateur recordings of his songs, but did not post them on the Internet. Friends persuaded him to do this, and the video for the song “Love on the Net” shot by Yegor ended up on YouTube. The young singer himself did not expect that the video would receive such a large number of positive feedback. After the first success, the musician decided to participate in the competition "Star of Vkontakte - Channel Five", where he became the winner in the nomination " Best Hip Hop executor". New song"Inspiration" sounded already in concert hall"October" - one of the main venues in St. Petersburg. Egor was only 17 years old when his cover of Timati's track "Don't Go Crazy" was noticed in the production center Black Star Inc and offered cooperation. Later career the artist was simply dizzying: the track "The Most-Most" received more than 70 million views on Youtube and made Yegor an idol of youth.
Carly Ray Jepsen
Beauty Carly Rae Jepsen also became famous thanks to YouTube, but her path to success was unusual. In 2007, the singer participated in the Canadian Idol television show and after signed a contract with the labels Fontana and MapleMusic, however, her debut album Tug of War did not bring popularity. Three years later, the performer posted on the Web a hastily filmed video Call Me Maybe. He amused the audience so much that dozens of parodies appeared on the Internet. As a result, the clip was seen by more than 800 million people! The single took first place in the charts in the USA, Canada, Australia, Brazil, France. The Guardian newspaper named the video the best of 2012, and MTV named it Song of the Year. Now the singer collects full halls around the world. Her popularity is also evidenced by the fact that in the video for her song I Really Like You starred famous actor and producer Tom Hanks.
Now let's introduce you to those who got into the world of music thanks to the Internet. There are many performers who "conquered" first the netizens, and then the whole world. You can treat them however you like, but you can't deny that they did a great job.
1. Peter Nalich
Let's start with the Russian artist Pyotr Nalich, who became popular thanks to one single video. Now some know him as “that guy who sings about a sugar bag”, some as a Eurovision participant, but someone probably understands that since he represented Russia at the song contest, he did it for a reason.
Back in 2007, Peter Nalich and his friends went to the country, taking a guitar and a camera. He was creative person, but in addition to writing poetry and playing the guitar, he also drew well, so he became an architect. But not for life, as it turned out.
Purely for fun, the guys shot a video for the song "Guitar", which collected 70 thousand views and about 5 million downloads, and after that the song entered the TOP-20 hits. Glory was secured. Three years later, Peter Nalich performed at Eurovision. In the semi-finals, by the way, Peter's group reached the second place, but took only the twentieth place in the final. However, then, in 2007, the Internet community gave them popularity. And many remain his fans to this day.
2. Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen is another one-video singer. There was a time when her song Call Me Maybe sounded from every TV, radio and on every music channel. However, not everything is so smooth.
Despite the popularity of the song (winning places in the charts, the title of "song of the year" and much more), it was quite pop and "jamming" that there were many pranksters who decided to parody Carly Rae Jepsen. Today you will find a huge number of parodies of her video. Naturally, after watching the parody, you will want to look at the original. Probably, Jepsen received part of her views in this way. However, you have to give her credit. Having heard the song just once, you will hum it mentally for a long time.
3. Justin Bieber
You can love Justin Bieber, you can not love him, but he did a great job, and you can’t argue with that. Yes, even if his video is one of the worst videos on YouTube (I mean, with the most dislikes, at the time of writing that article there are 6.6 million), but in these six years he has grown in every way, and today the name of Justin Bieber almost everyone knows.
His story is ridiculously simple: Justin's mother posted a video of his performances on the Internet (he was a musician and very good), he was noticed by an influential producer, and everything is clear there. The famous bieber became thanks to music video to the song Baby, where he appeared before us as a sixteen-year-old boy with long bangs and a slightly high-pitched voice. A lot of criticism rained down on him, where he was called not very good words and asked to stop the music, but among all this there were also positive reviews.
Now we have what we have. Justin Bieber has removed his bangs, became the face of some brands, sold more than 15 million copies of his albums worldwide. Perhaps it was worthwhile then to attract attention to yourself and receive a lot of criticism in order to achieve such a result later?
4. Halsey
Halsey grew up in ordinary family, was an ordinary teenager With ordinary hobbies. And like more and more musically gifted people, they posted covers on YouTube. It so happened that she won her popularity in narrow circles by posting a cover of a Taylor Swift song, and the whole world noticed her when Ashley posted her first Ghost song online. She literally woke up famous. Today, we can say that Halsey is just starting his career. During these two years, Ashley managed to play with such performers as The Weekend, imagine Dragons, the same Justin Bieber. In general, Halsey is just beginning to conquer the world of music and she hardly imagined that she would achieve such heights when she sang Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran songs on camera.
5. Troy Sivan
But Troye Sivan literally came into the world of music through YouTube. The fact is that Sivan is an Australian video blogger. He was one of the most popular YouTubers for a long time, making videos on various topics and doing covers. Sometimes he wrote songs and music himself, putting it on his channel. But in 2014, Troy Sivan decided to start making music more seriously and released his first single, in support of the upcoming mini-album. Given that he was already popular then, it is clear that both the track and the album became successful.
After the release of the first two mini-albums and the full-length album "Blue Neighborhood", Troy became known not only as a vlogger, but also as a singer. Later, he released several video clips, and sang one of his songs with aspiring singer Alessia Kara.
By the way, Troy Sivan is also an actor - he played the role young James Howlett in the Wolverine movie.
The Internet today has become the same way to promote artists and celebrities as the media, advertising, rotation and other traditional promotion channels. It is cheaper and more accessible to emerging artists, but it imposes its own conditions. The artist acts on the verge of a foul, annoying and attracting attention.
Read about who and how became famous thanks to the Internet in the selection below. I used the article as a base How to become a star with God's help, adding other artists and celebrities to it.
Nikolai Voronov is the star of the Vkontakte social network, the hero of notes and concerts in famous magazines and clubs. His song "White Dragonfly of Love" was watched by 280 thousand people on YouTube alone. Used to be a star did such masterpieces, parodies of masterpieces or flashing on the screen, and not everything that, in general, is not customary to show. Not mental oddities, not stupid revelations and not trash that is not even masked. Now that video cameras are cheap and access to media is so easy, the icons are people capitalizing on their own shame online. We have selected the most prominent internet freaks and the driver sites that made them famous.
The reaction to Nikolai Voronov in blogs is often rude: “Dude of a slegont not alle” - or even worse. Someone almost seriously calls him Russia's candidate for Eurovision, the most appropriate of the moment. In any case, it evokes emotions in everyone. By the way " Quest Pistols" based on his "White Dragonfly of Love" they created an excellent remix.
She became known to her audience in the CIS through the Internet, as she lives and works in the Baltics. GuruKen, in his review of her first album, calls her an internet girl. At the time of the collapse of the record industry, completely unseen artists began to crawl out from under the Internet slots. They really want to sing, but they don't know how to do it. They have taste and sense of style, but no professionalism. They are in a hurry to quickly convey to the world what was born, so as not to trivialize the first feeling. But the absence of a school sometimes undermines their brightest intentions. Alina Orlova is far from the first in this generation of singing Internet girls behind the keys. Regina Spektor and CocoRosie are already shining in America, the Ukrainian Fleur is already gathering large halls. From this series, Alina Orlova stands out only for her Baltic calmness and cabaret-minimalistic orchestration.
Concert-presentation of the album " wild dog dingo” was held in January 2008 in the Church of St. Catherine. The concert was broadcast by one of the central channels of Lithuania. The album's title contains a play on words, due to which it can be translated from Lithuanian as "Wild Dog Dingo" or "Wild Dog is Lost".
MARCHI graduate Petr Nalich won his first fans thanks to the Youtube resource, where, for fun, he posted a homemade video for the song Gitar - a kind of punk romance, sung in monstrous English. The audience appreciated the joke - for short term the video became the leader in terms of the number of views in the Russian-speaking segment of the Web, and Nalich himself became the first Russian performer, the success of which was ensured not by rigid rotation on leading radio stations and boring television broadcasts, but by the Internet, which is alien to the concept of “format”.
Further - everything is like with real stars: interviews, photo shoots and, of course, concerts. Since the beginning of 2008 Music band Petra Nalich managed to "light up" at all the leading venues of the capital, including Green theater, where beginners, as you know, the entrance is closed. As for the tour, the artists have already visited both Europe and Asia, performing at the main sports events this summer: the European Football Championship before the Russia-Sweden match and the Beijing Olympics.
Within a few weeks, after uploading, when the "Guitar" video was viewed by all Internet users, a lot of discussions and hypotheses unfolded around the question of who Peter Nalich was. Everyone is intrigued. Someone claims that Peter Nalich is a gypsy baron, someone claims that he is a Cypriot Greek. And others generally declare that there is no Peter Nalich? So who are you, Petya? - asked Peter Nalich "Izvestia"
“Guitar” is a song performed by Peter in English with a strong accent to guitar accompaniment, written, according to the author, under the influence of gypsy, Balkan and Latin American music, romances and the work of Russian bards. An amateur music video for the song was posted to YouTube on April 24, 2007. The clip was filmed in the spring of 2007 at the author's dacha near Moscow, and depicts Peter either singing "Jump to my Jaguar" in a VAZ-2101 car, or dancing with friends. For filming, an amateur digital video camera was used, and primitive effects and titles were added to Sony Vegas. The clip gained wide popularity among YouTube viewers and bloggers: as of November 18, 2007, the video was in 20th place in terms of the number of views among Russian music videos posted on the service. The popularity of the video on the Internet allowed the Kommersant browser to call the singer "the first Russian singing Internet phenomenon", and among the welcome videos dedicated to the opening of the Russian version of YouTube in November 2007 was Peter's appeal.
Tila Tequila (real name Tila Nguyen), a Texan girl of Vietnamese origin, became famous thanks to the social network Myspace in 2003. She is called the most famous girl on the Internet, because since the moment of registration on Myspace, her page has been viewed 180 million times. Approximately - the population of Russia and Ukraine. And she also has 370 thousand friends in her diary.
TT was almost unknown to us until MTV showed the show "Sex with Tequila", in which she chose her soulmate from 16 guys and girls in front of astonished viewers. In the finale of some season, TT chose Christy's girlfriend. But holy carrots! Christie refused Tile (video on YouTube, 275 thousand views).
The internet made Tila famous. Before registering on the social network, she earned money by shooting nude for men's magazines and danced a striptease. Everything changed as soon as Teela came to Myspace. She quickly won two contests: Miss Myspace and Queen of Myspace. It is believed that Tila became popular because of frank texts in which she first confessed to virginity, then to bisexuality. The texts were illustrated with photographs, where the girl had almost no clothes on.
Producers noticed her. Now Tila sings and shoots videos, participates in own show on MTV, releases a clothing line. She wrote an autobiography in which she told how to become rich and famous.
Usually a question normal person: "What the hell is this?" - follows: "But she has boobs." Meanwhile, a sketch with recipes for becoming an Internet star looms. Voronov's horse, of course, is different - infantile madness. The strategy for less spectacular girls is impudence or theatrical stupidity.
Amatue, Felomena, Nahema, Nagual, Goddess, also, as it were, the most famous girl the Internet
23-year-old native of Tiraspol, living in Odessa, Valeria Lukyanova, is familiar to everyone who loves solid trash. Fame came to Lera in 2001, when she started her first blog. Then she called herself Nahema and claimed that she was the vampire queen. Thanks to the abundance of bad photographs, which for a long time became her calling card, as well as fantastic megalomania, Lera quickly became known on Li.ru.
The period of passion for vampires was replaced by Lukyanova's passion for esotericism and the work of Coelho, and the former Nahema began to call herself for some reason the queen of the Internet. She continued to post retouched photos, claiming that she is the most beautiful girl on the planet. Lera found fans: 3.5 thousand people read her blog.
Lukyanova even managed to become an Internet meme, cultural phenomenon online, readily replicated by users. Dedicated to her, the folklore piggy bank of Runet. Her phrases became winged, and Valeria's opponents, whom she herself calls "insects", organized an anti-fan club "Bagini" - one of her names, which the girl herself wrote through "a".
Now Valeria Lukyanova is becoming a singer. New nickname— Amatue.
Karina Barbie, living doll
In fact, Karina Barbie's name is Karina Sharobokova. She is 20 years old, she came to Moscow from Karaganda and, unlike Valeria Lukyanova, whose ambitions did not spread beyond the Internet for a long time, she immediately got involved in real life.
Karina is a regular guest of programs on NTV and Moscow strip clubs, which are happy to invite her to perform. She recently starred in the movie "Virginity" as herself.
Since childhood, Karina did not like to study, but she loved the Barbie doll and wanted to be like her. After graduating from 9 classes in her native Karaganda, she opened a school there oriental dances. Then she became interested in striptease and went to conquer Moscow.
“I always knew that I could gain popularity,” Karina told us, “But when I arrived in Moscow, I was 16 years old, I didn’t know anyone here and started a diary on Li.ru just to communicate. But my diary immediately became so popular that I thought: if people are interested in me, then I should try to become the most popular. Now Karina's blog is read by 2400 people.
A two-year-old TNT report about Karina Barbie, who arrived in Moscow, has 20,000 views.
The popularity was more negative than positive. Karina's diary contains naive nonsense and revelations from the arsenal of a textbook blonde. But the image of a strange half-naked girl in pink attracted attention the right people. Karina began to be invited to dance in Moscow strip clubs, journalists are happy to interview her, and Eсho of Hollywood, a company specializing in the production of striptease clothing and erotic shows, called Karina as a consultant new collection"Barbie".
Karina's ill-wishers created the Karina Kaput community on Li.ru, in which she communicates with them with pleasure. "This community will amuse me a lot." Karina says. “I go there often and laugh at the stupidity of the people, sometimes I communicate by leaving comments. In Karaganda, I did not have such ardent admirers and haters as now. Now there are plenty of them in every city. The whole CIS knows me.”
Karina recently got married. Her husband Anatoly is 48, they met at the club where she danced. “I’m now married and happy, it’s too early to think about children, but I’m only 20 years old. You have to do a lot of things. I will stop at nothing and I will win the title of a world-class star and surpass Madonna herself. Judging by the statistics of the latest videos on YouTube, Karina is losing popularity: the account goes to hundreds of views.
How to become an internet star
Manual for personal striptease
1. It is desirable to be born in the province. Karaganda, Bugulma, Labytnangi. And be 16 years old.
2. Start a blog or social media page. It is better if it is an extremely democratic site, designed more for young people, like Li.ru or Vkontakte. Tell there about yourself delicate details. For example, that you have implants in your buttocks, HIV, or a volume of Schopenhauer.
3. Call yourself Lord of the Galaxy, Queen of All Blogs, Zero Coming Messiah. Write the name with capital letters, this is great.
4. Choose a strange image for yourself. It will be necessary to shock the public not only with judgments, but also with appearance. Look for something in the Odd Stuff section on Digg.com: the entire Runet and almost the entire civilization are spied on this site.
5. Do more candid photos and videos with a shaking soap dish. Speak with an accent or in an unusual way - stutter. Post photos and videos on your blog and YouTube.
6. Get involved in all the disputes and quarrels that you meet on the Internet. Do not take the position of either side: everyone is an idiot, and you are a deity. For the same reason, write with errors.
7. Join all "profile" communities. For example, the Beauty Queen chooses communities dedicated to beauty, the Great Mage - magic. The latter is also called esotericism. Spam the community with texts, photos and videos.
8. Come up with a song (use the site translate.google.ru for this), play on a children's synthesizer, shoot a video clip and spam everything you can with it. It is better to sing somehow unusual - stutter.
9. Blame everyone for being jealous of your beauty, intelligence, or talent. Among other things, this will avoid a full-fledged personal life, destructive for a freak star.
10. Give a half-witted buffoon or demoness for two or three years, until they write about you on Lurkmore - this is already the beginning of fame. Wait for people in suits with a proposal for cooperation.
