One of my favourite vodcasts embarrasingly has to be Revision3’s ‘Internet Superstar’. They often bestow the great honour of internet superstardom on guests on their shows, but what exactly is an internet superstar?

Wiktionary defines a superstar as ’someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame and wealth.’ Very few people have accumalted a vast amount of both fame and wealth online, those who have are the likes of Larry Page, but many have received quite a bit of ‘fame’ or ‘wealth’.

It’s my opinion that superstardom is when you are so famous in your field, you’re known to people widely beyond it. How many non-YouTubers will have heard of, for example, Tay Zonday? Not many, yet apparently he’s an internet superstar.

An internet superstar doesn’t yet exist. Plenty of internet celebrities, who are well-known but only in their field (the Internet), exist.