Internet Celebrities

An Internet celebrity, cyberstar or online celebrity is someone who has become famous by means of the Internet. Internet allows people to reach a wide audience across the world and so become famous within one or more Internet communities.There are lots of internet celebrities around the world. Most of them became a celebrity on social media networks. Here are a few examples:

Justin Bieber

Born March 1, 1994, Justin Bieber is a Canadian pop musician, actor, and singer-songwriter. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by American talent manager Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. In July 2010, it was reported that Bieber was the most searched for celebrity on the Internet. That same month his music video, "Baby", surpassed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" to become the most viewed, and most disliked YouTube video ever. It remained the most viewed video until November 2012. In September 2010, it was reported that Bieber accounted for three percent of all traffic on Twitter, according to an employee of the social-networking site.

PSY

Park Jae-sang (born December 31, 1977), better known by his stage name Psy, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, record producer and television personality. Psy is known domestically for his humorous videos and stage performances, and internationally for his hit single "Gangnam Style." The song's refrain "Oppan Gangnam Style" was entered into The Yale Book of Quotations as one of the most famous quotes of 2012. On December 21, 2012, his music video for "Gangnam Style" exceeded 1 billion views on YouTube, (currently 1.710.390.647 views in 23.07.2013 - 07:40) becoming the first and currently only video to do so in the website's history.

Rebecca Black

Rebecca Black (born June 21, 1997) is an American pop singer and dancer who gained extensive media attention with the 2011 single "Friday". Her mother paid $4,000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity label. After the video went viral on YouTube and other social media sites, "Friday" was derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the worst song ever." Between its February 10, 2011 upload date and its temporary removal from YouTube on June 16, the video video received around 167 million views, gaining Black international attention as a viral star. Black re-uploaded it to her own channel three months later.

Chris Crocker

Chris Crocker (born Christopher Darren Cunningham; December 7, 1987), is an American Internet celebrity, songwriter, blogger, and recording artist residing in Los Angeles, California. Crocker gained international fame in September 2007 from his viral video "Leave Britney Alone", in which he tearfully defended pop singer Britney Spears's comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards; his video had over four million views in two days. The video received international media attention, hundreds of parodies and criticism for Crocker.

Grumpy Cat

Grumpy Cat (born April 4, 2012), real name Tardar Sauce, is a female cat and Internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial expression. Her owner Tabatha Bundesen says that her permanently grumpy-looking face is due to feline dwarfism. Grumpy Cat's popularity originated from a picture posted to the social news website reddit by Tabatha's brother Bryan on September 22, 2012. It was made into an image macro with grumpy captions. "The Official Grumpy Cat" on Facebook has over 1 million Likes. Grumpy Cat was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2013.