Bobby Roode Quotes

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.

I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

The cultural value of 'Gossip Girl' was this interesting question. Sure, it seemed to have been a worldwide, cultural phenomenon for some time. And, yes, anywhere I go, I do get recognized. At the same time, it also lacked the kind of importance that people might anticipate.

So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.

I always wanted to be a youth influencer.

Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.