Controversies īill O'Reilly attacked WorldStarHipHop and its president after watching a video of a kid talking about his plans to kill then-president George W.
On January 23, 2017, founder and CEO Lee "Q" O'Denat died of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at the age of 43, with morbid obesity as a contributing factor. The video received about one million views in a single day. Edwards became so well known that it trended on Twitter along with the name "WorldStarHipHop". Edwards, beating another woman, went viral. One 2012 video, showing an Elyria, Ohio ( Greater Cleveland) woman, Tashay D. In some videos of violent fights, people chant "World Star" in recognition that the video may be posted on the website. They comb the pop cultural landscape for videos that are shocking on multiple levels and feed into peoples' voyeuristic tendencies." culture and life-another low on a downward continuum that extends from the Jerry Springer-style trash-talk shows of the 1980s and 1990s through to the TMZ.com and RadarOnline websites of today." Some media observers argued that, in the words of Zurawik, "because of its African-American identity, it has the potential to be used by some viewers to create or fuel stereotypes of urban America as an out-of-control, chaotic space dominated by young, violent, African-American men." Nsenga Burton, the editor at large of The Root and an associate professor at Goucher College, described the site as "basically shock video. Jeff Himmelman of The New York Times stated in 2013 that the website "does many things but mostly hosts videos of fights." ĭavid Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said in 2012 that "Now in its sixth year, WorldStar is seen by many critics as yet another example of the coarsening of U.S. The site's popularity has created a sort of voyeuristic feedback loop, in which disassociated bystanders immediately videotape shocking incidents and act as if they're already watching a video on the Internet". Many of the early videos of shocking events had gone viral. The website first became infamous for posting shock videos however, today it focuses primarily on music. On August 5, 2014, Deadline reported that Paramount was working on a film based on the site with Russell Simmons expected to produce the film. By 2012, BET had voted WorldStarHipHop as the "top hip hop and urban culture website" for three years in a row. Diddy promotional video of Cîroc vodka premiered on WorldStar. He added "Once we went 100 percent video, showing that original hood stuff, we prevailed." O'Denat said that this led to tension between the two websites. O'Denat used the setup of, a website which had already been distributing similar material. Thereon, WorldStar focused on hip hop beefs which were previously popular through "street DVDs" such as Smack, The Come Up and others.
O'Denat later restarted it as a content aggregator. Shortly after the website's launch, hackers destroyed the website. Lee "Q" O'Denat started the website in August 2005 with Ari Armani as a distributor of mixtapes. O'Denat who referred to himself as a " Haitian ghetto nerd", described WorldStarHipHop as the " CNN of the ghetto". Described by Vibe as a "remnant of the Geocities generation", the site regularly features shocking events caught on video, music videos and assorted content targeted to young audiences. The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC, was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat, a Hollis, Queens–based hip-hop fan who attended Grover Cleveland High School before graduating. Founded in 2005, the site averages 1.2 million unique visitors a day. WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog.
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