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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
It's 15 minutes of fame, goddamnit...15 minutes!!! 
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ADG |
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Warhol's comment and the insight it expresses grew out of his own interest in fame and celebrity. His view of the media was that they could enable any person to become famous. Warhol's own shifting entourage of otherwise undistinguished hangers-on in the 60s and 70s, whom he dubbed his "Superstars," exemplified his idea of short-term, disposable celebrity.
A more recent adaptation of Warhol's quip, possibly prompted by the rise of online social networking, blogging, and similar online phenomena, is the claim that "In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people" (or, in some renditions, "On the Web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people").[4] This quote was said to have originated from the Scottish artist Momus.
Warhol could not have foreseen the near-instantaneous, potentially global influence of everyone's cell phone having a video camera (or for that matter, of everyone having a cell phone) and the YouTube generation. The quote has also been paraphrased as
"15 seconds of fame." 
Times they are a changin' ADG. It's ALL GOOD in the NEIGHBORHOOD
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