Fred Gets a Movie Deal... :(

[JacobG]

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[quote]Internet media is niche media. So you've probably never heard of "Fred," the online actor whose YouTube channel is followed by 1.5 million people. But don't worry: Fred's self-harm-inducing schtick will soon land in a theater near you.

How does an obnoxiously over-the-top kid on digital helium land a feature film deal, as Fred has done, according to a casting call obtained by TubeFilter? By having the most, or now second-most, followers of anyone on Google's video site. And by playing perfectly to Hollywood's fantasy that the branded serials its traditional TV studios specialize in can be profitably replicated online: Fred, you see, earns a reported six figures off this cheaply-produced stuff.

Don't tell studio honchos that, marvels of nature like "Fred" and sharp wits like Ze Frank not withstanding, YouTube will forever be dominated by cat videos, plane crashes and other spontaneously-obtained footage. After all, we wouldn't want the "Fred"s of tomorrow to miss their big Hollywood paydays.[/quote]

taken from [url]http://gawker.com/5362833/hugely-annoying-youtuber-scores-film-deal[/url]

God, really?...

[Fishyfish v16]

The U.S. Army's psychological weapon division sure cranks out good things these days

[Case-Sensitive]

Fred sounds like a fag.

[ZombieFleezus]

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[Grayron]

oh god oh god oh god
i hope this isnt true

[MR-X]

This just proves any untalented fuck can get deals now.

I mean any fucking person can record a video and fast forward it to get the same effect.

We need too....
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[FunkyHippo]

I wish I can high pitch my voice on the computer and record myself talking and then upload it to youtube so I can be ultimately famous.

[smurfy]

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FML

[PCRShade]

:psyboom:

[FartingDog]

Is this how we are going to die in 2012?

[DoritoBanditV2]

6 fucking figures?

off a bunch of horribly edited movies where he talks really fast and acts gay?

I guess he gets money from that cell phone company...

[thereisno132]

2 hours of the high pitchness = gun to the head

[{FP}ST]

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[Skipan]

This is pure fucking bullshit,Fred isn't even that funny. The real comedians of youtube don't need some stupid voice changer shit to sound funny. Fuck you Fred.

[smurfy]

lul he talk high pitch it funy:OP

[MoldFungus]

I wish I could jizz in Fred's mouth.

[Touhou]

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[smurfy]

This gets funding and yet my movie about a league of killer robot sharks from the future taking over Mars doesn't?

[Bredirish123]

Someone please snipe him at his premiere.

[aznz888]

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[PoorFellow]

Are you kidding me

[SgtSpankeyII]

God damn it, this was the straw that broke the camels back, now I have to go and join Al-Qaeda.

[faolco1]

:frogdowns:

You have got to be kidding me.

[bobste]

:Dawkins102:

[Norman Jones]

and teen girls all over the world are happy

[-Ben_Wolfe-]

Peewee Herman vs. Fred

I sometimes hate how Hollywood leeches of the bad content in small time media and not the well done ones.

[BrokenSanity]

This is getting out of hand.

[LewisDaCool3]

[B]What?[/B]

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[SenorJose]

:wtc:

I fail to see how they can produce a 'plot' for this movie.

[kal]

God help us all