Believe the Hype Kills

So I was bored and looking back at some old facebook history I had on my feed. I find it pretty amazing how much of a documentation of my life facebook has become whether it be involuntary or with intent. None the less, I'm guilty once again of partaking in the worldly pleasures fueled by hype, and hype kills.

So allow me to reintroduce the top hypes of the year, in no particular order, more like a "Remember When..."

1. Hands down, the top hype of the year was Barack Obama. Label me guilty again because even I could not resists stretching my fingers over the keyboard to spit my nickels of knowledge and opinions about him. Considered phenomenal, "lesser of the two evils," hope, change, progress and the effervescent "black cool," I would have to say just as my profile documented my life, other's profiles have done the same for them, and Obama definitely showed up for months in status updates, homepages and blogs, and even as religious and political preferences around the world.

Rallying for Obama also managed to fuel instances of black pride, patriotism and the campiagn that "change has come to America." Obama became buzz central worldwide, and at times I wondered was I the only who one thought the rest of the world was in love with him. From songs to shirts to posters to tattoos, hairdos and Halloween costumes, he has been it all.

2. Savedarfur.org? Yes, Savedarfur.org is what I thought was going to be the bane of college students existence to help a country in need. Not at all. Savedarfur.org actually seemed to pop up more like a disclaimer for punchlines, and what made the act so bad is everyone, including myself, have only publicized the situation without making in progress.

Save darfur only raised temporary awareness for thing such as genocide, but other sites advocating social welfare popped up like Free Rice , and Self Help Africa. This was all only hype and I wonder if anyone besides myself felt like more agency should have been taken for something so unrightfully claimed. So I guess since it was on the Tyra show and represents another inhumane act, I can expect next years awareness fad to be female circumcisons...

3. Lil' Wayne, Kanye and T-Pain, but mostly Lil' Wayne, were thee top music fads of the year. Lil' Wayne became so popular, I personally feel like he just stopped trying, not that he wasn't still good but when you sell a million albums in one week, it's safe to assume that your voice is good enough. These three artists just decided they could officially do whatever the wanted musically and we would love it anyways, and as consumers, we proved them right. I would have to say that T-Pain took the initiative to introduce Lil' Wayne and Kanye to the world of auto tuning and they have officially been turned out. Now, we have the pleasure of lyrics so slurred and sloppy we have to carry around the words just in case the opportunity to sing along comes up. These three are most definitely the music fads of the year.