Ultimate iJustine fan

No need to post anything about iJustine’s video post with her 2008 recap. I want to share some interesting art by an iJustine fan that caught my attention on Facebook and thought it was worthy of sharing with the world. I’m not talking about the picture of iJustine that was framed last year, I’m talking about the recent graffiti on iJustine’s Facebook wall.

Hopefully you are a friend to iJustine on Facebook. If not, your loss. She has reached  her Facebook friends limit. Anywho, I was digging through Facebook and clicked over to iJustine’s profile to see what the Princess of the Internet was up to and I was shocked to see many new additions to her graffiti wall.

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This was like a gift from the internet gods. I was sitting back and trying to find something about iJustine to write in the blog. I was about to write up a quick opinion about the Nalts video I saw this week or my theory on why Justine got sick all of a sudden but that changed.

Zappos TV, the media wing of the most popular online shoe company Zappos.com released an iJustine treat that borders on pure genius. The music video starring iJustine is high quality and the entire song is about her sending Tweets to herself.  It’s a short video at 1:48 but the video is fully entertaining and a must see.

Justine sitting on a toilet with her Mac on her lap and a leaflet hanging on the wall saying “iJustine Rocks”. (Which you do) and the naked guy standing in is front yard was a nice touch.

Having a memorable avatar on Twitter makes all the difference in the world. A custom avatar or image can make you easily identifiable and set you apart from the others. Not surprising that iJustine was the first Twitter user to have an animated avatar. I guess the debate could be made if she was really the first, but this is my blog so I say iJustine was the originator of this fad.

It didn’t take long for the internet to take notice. almost immediately, iJustine was getting questions about how she did it. Some people didn’t like it and asked her to change it back, she didn’t listen. Once again, iJustine found a unique way to stand out from the crowd and get people talking about her. Sure, it would be more entertaining to have a video leaked of iJustine drunk and stumbling down the streets of L.A. but she leaves that to the standard celebrity.

Not only was she the first Twitter user to sport an animated avatar, she seems to be the only one able to pull this magical feat off. It took a couple days but the Twitterverse caught on to the trick and now there are animated Twitter avatars popping up all over.

Best part about all of this is that when someone uploads an animated avatar, they are calling it “Pulling an iJustine.” Awesome!

So many people took notice that even MTV decided to “Pull an iJustine”.

Justine’s growth has amazed me over the past few months. From humble beginnings making silly videos on YouTube she is now rising above the other imitators and has become the spokesperson for Mozy Backup, been featured in an AT&T web series called Lost in America, and involved in the web series In2ition.

One of the things put in place a while back was a newsletter. She hasn’t used it very much, in fact I think I have only received two of these newsletters in a few months. Which is good because the last thing I want is to create a filter for iJustine spam. Sending out emails to her fans is a great idea. Sure she send Twitter updates like 3-5 times a day and she posts information on her website but getting an email from iJustine is special even if it’s sent to 20,000 other people.

Justine is asking everyone to send in suggestions for new videos that you want to see. I don’t think Justine will be putting a shoe on her head but you never know. Hearing Justine talking with a man’s voice is very disturbing. So you may not want to watch this clip with iJustine discussing the new project, whatever you do don’t call it a “show”.

Sometimes Justine’s best videos come when we least expect it. For Thanksgiving Justine made a video for us where she is walking around with a frozen turkey. The funny part is she’s carrying this turkey around into stores like Target and movie rental stores as if it were here baby or her frozen BFF.The best part is that those of us that follow her on Twitter really get to know whats happening behind the scenes like when she got busted at Target for filming.

In the end, Justine puts the frozen bird to bed in the only place it could call home, the oven. Yummers.