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The MySpace Movie, also known as Myspace: the movie, is a 2006 short film and viral video. Its name refers to Myspace , the social networking website , which it parodies. Two years later, a new video by Lehre was released, but instead of Myspace, focused on Facebook .
10 years ago, social network giants Myspace embarked on a crowdsourced movie that was way ahead of its time. We look back at the making of Faintheart.
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.
On January 28, 2006, Lehre uploaded Myspace: The Movie, a parody of the popular social networking site that he directed, co-wrote, edited, scored, and starred in. [8] [9] Three days after Lehre uploaded the video to his personal site, another user uploaded the video to YouTube. [10] By February 2006, Myspace: The Movie became YouTube's most ...
Faintheart billed itself as "the world's first user-generated movie". [2] Vertigo Films, Myspace and Film4 collaborated to form the Myspace Movie Mash Up competition, which offered a £1m budget to aspiring directors. [4] From a shortlist selected by experts, Myspace users chose Vito Rocco as the winning director. [1] [5]
As of October 2010, Cunningham's videos had received a combined 50 million plays on MySpace, and her vlog channel on YouTube was the 100th-most viewed of all time in all categories, with over 205 million video views, before Cunningham closed her YouTube account in September 2015.
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. [ 2 ]
A dedicated page put up on MySpace by Svidersky's friends received 1,200 posts in three days. [7] Internet users on other sites such as YouTube also posted tributes. The McDonald's restaurant where she worked in Vancouver held a fund-raising day for her family, trying to raise $15,000, but actually achieved nearly $85,000, [ 5 ] as of April 28 ...