Elon Musk, Will Wheaton are celebrities first. Will Wheaton has a very successful career in the acting field. Elon Musk is one of the wealthiest businessman on the planet. By default someone who.buys out Twitter is going to be in the spotlight.
What really makes someone a celebrity though? That they're famous, rich, or associated with someone who is? Plenty of well known rich people, some of them even quite talented, who aren't well known for their high-functioning autism or that time they raped their mom.
Elon is the son of an obscenely rich emerald mine owner from South Africa. with narcissistic personality disorder who steals the ideas of others and realizes them while claiming them as his own original ideas. He also has a massive letter 'x' fetish. If it weren't for the money there would be no fame, in fact we probably would have never heard of him. The purchase of Twitter is probably the single biggest mistake he's ever made, the full ramifications of which are yet to be seen.
What I am trying to say is that celebrities have the ability to rise through the ranks, lolcows usually don't (in comparison to celebrities).
I think lolcows who aren't totally fucked by their disablement can become celebrities, especially if they come from a filthy rich family. See Donald J. Trump.
You don't have to sacrifice your family, or your career to run a "lolcow forum" and I am going to prove it.
I had thoughts of starting Joshuafarms, but I'm not gonna risk it. I'd rather contribute to an existing kiwisplinter, anonymously. I sincerely hope it works out for you though.
@Moontroon you want a wiki? What kind of wiki would you want? There are several options you could choose from.
A lolcow wiki, so people can see all there is to know about the various lolcows (and celebrity lolcows) without having to dig through tens of thousands of pages of kiwishit. They can come to the forum then to discuss said cows if they wish. It can also be a good place to document the history of this genre, from the beginnings of the CWCki forum through to current day, including all the splinters and associated sites that came and went over the years.
Because I have a feeling this will be a question.... Sites like ED and the failed Keffals Farms Wiki are powered by MediaWiki, which is the open source software that underpins Wikipedia. When people say "Wiki" this is what they're talking about. Usually you put this on your web server alongside your existing site. Whatever you do, stay the fuck away from Fandom.
