Stories, people, images, and video spread like wildfire through the internet and are forgotten just as quickly. When we watch a video of someone humiliating themselves we laugh, and forget that this person is just like us, a person in real time somewhere in the world rather than someone on the screen, that in a fex minutes we will click past in our search of something better. but for the person in that clip, that singular video, and its aftermath, could follow their life for ever. In this project an in - depth look at one of the first true internet celebrities: “the Star Wars Kid”. The video was uploaded on April 14th, 2003 and it became a worldwide sensation practically overnight. The video then went on to be parodied in pop and internet culture. “the Star Wars Kid” was bullied so viciously online as well as in person that the boy had to leave school and finish in a mental facility. Later a lawsuit was filed against the adolescents who originally posted the footage. The comments were chosen to represent the overall consensus of the people and hand drew them on each image still, consequently returning the human element to the inhumane posts.

a cube and a comment on that cube
a monolith and a reflection of that beam
material varies throughout