How is it that in a world where people pay $40 for a Blu-Ray movie that cost $50mm+ and years to create, pop it into their $400 player connected to their $3000 60″ HDTV and $1500 7.1 speaker system, can the same number of people, and often overlapping each other, spend countless hours every month deriving the same amount of enjoyment watching a low quality recording of a kid break dancing that took a minute to record on a $60 digital camera on a 15″ laptop screen in which the video takes no more than 3″ of real estate?

How is it that more people would prefer to play on a Wii, whose contribution to the technological prowess rivals that of a calculator, than the almighty PS3 which can render scenarios almost as life-like as God can?

How is it that more people are entrusting their recommendations for restaurants on sites like Yelp with reviews like these over traditional food reviewers?

And along those lines, no-names on reality tv shows are more popular than sitcom actors, many bloggers are now more prominent than traditional journalists, and more people bought William Hung albums than [insert moderately famous artist] here.

So how is it that [low budget thing here] is more popular than [expensive elitist product]?

Damned if I knew. I’m far too simplistic to come up with an explanation.