YouTube Celebs on South Park

Every so often, the ROFLTeam hears about a production or a development that lets us know that this conference is really happening in a pretty perfect and wonderful moment in culture. One of the more fascinating trends that we’ve been thinking about and observing has been the gradual incorporation of Web 2.0 stuff and – more generally – new media into more traditional forms of media – see “Web Junk” on VH1, Slate’s “Did You See This?” blog, the really creepy CSI:NY episode about Second Life, things like that. The older world is beginning to see the legitimacy of user-generated content as culturally significant, which is totes exciting.

So if any of you (like many of us on the ROFLTeam) are fans of South Park – an incredibly traditional and classic television show – we hope you watched last week’s episode, “Canada on Strike.” There was a pretty epic fight among several of our favorite internet celebrities, including Tay Zonday, Tron Guy, and Sneezing Panda. We like to think that ROFLCon’s existence nudged this plotline into place. In any case, we really hope our conference turns out a little better than what eventually happens. Like, we don’t want a bloodbath.

Watch the full episode here!