Dodson for Halloween

An underground hit this Halloween was dressing up as YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson. On July 28th 2010, in a Lincoln Park housing project, a man entered Antoine's sister’s room from the upstairs window. The man tried to assault Antoine's sister, but was scared off when he came in to intervene. After the events the local news channel did a report on the event. Antoine was very frantic on the camera and said such quotes as "hide your kids, hide your wife, cause they raping everybody out here". The video was then uploaded to YouTube were it went viral. Soon it became so popular that t-shirts and Antoine Dodson items became available, and he became an Internet celebrity. Antoine's interview has also been auto-tuned and made into a very popular song available on iTunes. He also received the opportunity to perform his song, the “bed intruder song”, live at the 2010 BET hip-hop awards.

This Halloween many patrons dawned red bandanas and black muscle shirts to mimic the garb that Antoine wore on that fateful day in July. This just goes to show the influence that YouTube and the Internet community can have on society. Considering that one man was shot up to celebrity status in a matter of months. It seems that Andy Warhol was right when he said that in the future everyone would have his or her 15 minutes of fame.