Miguel McKelvey Quotes

I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

With anything new, if it's weird or cool, it will catch people's attention. But slowly, that new thing, if it catches on, it becomes a trend itself.

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

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

It’ll play in Peoria

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

I am the mainstream.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.

I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.

'Battletar' took a while to kinda permeate out into pop culture generally. It hit first with the science-fiction fan community, then the critics, and then it kind of went to the general population.

I love how the reality of fashion is all about something for that moment and then the extremity of dismissal.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

I'm sure there are people wearing Bullet Club shirts who don't even know what it is. It's one of those kind of things, but that's good.

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.