YouTube's lil' girly fetish

While reading the WSJ's article on faux-indie folk singer Marie Digby, I was struck not by her label's surreptitious viral campaign, but by the fact that, once again, a woman is the focus of our 24x7 talent search.

Consider: Amanda Congdon, lonelygirl15, Brookers, Terra Naomi, HappySlip, LittleLoca, LisaNova.

I'm sure there are examples of male talent that's been discovered on YouTube or through online video (i.e., the archetypal Lonely Island fellas). But by and large, there's an undeniable voyeurism at work here, no doubt a consequence of our male-skewed online demographic.