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What had happened to him? Was he still taking thousands of pictures of himself? Or did he, like Narcissus, fall into the river trying to capture a glimpse his own reflection, leaving his iPhone out to dry in the proverbial bowl of white rice grains? What happened to him was that he had become quite famous: famous for his selfies.
Before you stop to ponder what sort of horrific, value-neutral world we are living in — a world where someone can become famous for taking thousands of pictures of themselves — please watch Hello Stranger: a new Australian mini-documentary series on the ABC that gives us all another reason to talk about Kurt Coleman.
Or at least to talk like Kurt Coleman. He told a national television audience he was Australia's answer to Paris Hilton. His social media accounts are teaming full of unashamedly self-indulgent photos of the year-old Gold Coast boy, who also claims to be the inspiration behind Beyonce Knowles' hit Flawless.
Adulation: More than , people follow Kurt Coleman and his self-love on Facebook. Confident or cocky? Gold Coast teenager Kurt Coleman, 17, said everybody should be as arrogant as him. Rising star: Kurt wants to host his own TV show and recently signed on to a regular segment on Australian chat show Studio Target: Kurt said he is regularly singled out by 'haters' wanting to bash him. His jaw-dropping popularity has spawned a mini-industry, with businesses set up in Australia flogging Kurt Coleman-related merchandise.
The Kurt Coleman Supply Company says on its website it exists to promote 'the poster-boy to thousands of youth around the world for being who you are and not caring what anyone else thinks. The supremely-confident teenager said people approach him in the street 'every single day, sometimes it's scary, I have to run sometimes I've been hit so many times.
Asked if his online profile was an invented character or if he really does love himself, Kurt replied: 'I do, I love who I am, I don't think it's wrong. He said his confidence was not hiding any insecurities, adding: 'I do love myself.
He said a girl once broke into tears when he signed a shirt for her at a Gold Coast shopping centre. Nancy Coleman, an unrelated Surfers Paradise woman, had to contact her telephone company after crazed fans kept calling her at all hours of the day trying to get in touch with the blonde internet phenomenon.
Kurt has appeared on national television in Australia. Kurt's online discussions don't just focus on himself. He engages in social commentary and political debate regularly and recently offered up a novel theory behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH In a Bob Dylanesque YouTube video, the teenager claimed he was threatened with suspension from his high school for signing autographs.
He said his ambition is to host his own television show and recently signed up to a regular paid segment on Studio Phenomenon: This teenager has more Facebook followers than many football teams in Australia.
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