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WorldStarHipHop
WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog. Founded in 2005, the site averaged 1.2 million unique visitors a day in 2011. The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC, was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat. 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. O'Denat, who referred to himself as a "Haitian ghetto nerd", described WorldStarHipHop as the "CNN of the ghetto".
The website first became infamous for posting shock videos. Many of the early videos of shocking events had gone viral. According to Gothamist's John Del Signore, "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". Jeff Himmelman of The New York Times stated in 2013 that the website "does many things but mostly hosts videos of fights."
By 2012, BET had voted WorldStarHipHop as the "top hip hop and urban culture website" for three years in a row.
Lee "Q" O'Denat (November 2, 1973 – January 23, 2017) was a Hollis, Queens–based hip-hop fan who graduated from Grover Cleveland High School. He started the website in August 2005 with Ari Armani as a distributor of mixtapes. Shortly after the website's launch, hackers destroyed it. O'Denat later restarted the site as a content aggregator. Thereafter, WorldStar focused on hip hop beefs which were previously popular through "street DVDs" such as Smack, The Come Up and others. O'Denat used the setup of OnSmash.com, a website which had already been distributing similar material. O'Denat said that this led to tension between the two websites. He added "Once we went 100 percent video, showing that original hood stuff, we prevailed."
By 2012 companies and artists were using the platform as an advertising tool, including P. Diddy with a promotional video of Cîroc vodka having premiered on WorldStar.
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.
In some videos of violent fights, people chant "World Star" in recognition that the video may be posted on the website.
One 2012 video, showing an Elyria, Ohio (Greater Cleveland) woman, Tashay D. Edwards, beating another woman, went viral. Edwards became so well known that it trended on Twitter along with the name "WorldStarHipHop". The video received about one million views in a single day.
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WorldStarHipHop
WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog. Founded in 2005, the site averaged 1.2 million unique visitors a day in 2011. The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC, was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat. 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. O'Denat, who referred to himself as a "Haitian ghetto nerd", described WorldStarHipHop as the "CNN of the ghetto".
The website first became infamous for posting shock videos. Many of the early videos of shocking events had gone viral. According to Gothamist's John Del Signore, "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". Jeff Himmelman of The New York Times stated in 2013 that the website "does many things but mostly hosts videos of fights."
By 2012, BET had voted WorldStarHipHop as the "top hip hop and urban culture website" for three years in a row.
Lee "Q" O'Denat (November 2, 1973 – January 23, 2017) was a Hollis, Queens–based hip-hop fan who graduated from Grover Cleveland High School. He started the website in August 2005 with Ari Armani as a distributor of mixtapes. Shortly after the website's launch, hackers destroyed it. O'Denat later restarted the site as a content aggregator. Thereafter, WorldStar focused on hip hop beefs which were previously popular through "street DVDs" such as Smack, The Come Up and others. O'Denat used the setup of OnSmash.com, a website which had already been distributing similar material. O'Denat said that this led to tension between the two websites. He added "Once we went 100 percent video, showing that original hood stuff, we prevailed."
By 2012 companies and artists were using the platform as an advertising tool, including P. Diddy with a promotional video of Cîroc vodka having premiered on WorldStar.
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.
In some videos of violent fights, people chant "World Star" in recognition that the video may be posted on the website.
One 2012 video, showing an Elyria, Ohio (Greater Cleveland) woman, Tashay D. Edwards, beating another woman, went viral. Edwards became so well known that it trended on Twitter along with the name "WorldStarHipHop". The video received about one million views in a single day.