<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Antoine Dodson: Instant Global Star,&nbsp;Ctd]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[Judy Berman <a href="http://flavorwire.com/119146/why-the-bed-intruder-meme-needs-to-die?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+flavorwire-rss+%28Flavorwire%29" target="_self">wants</a> the <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/08/antoine-dodson-instant-global-star.html" target="_self">meme</a> to die: It’s not that the story hasn’t had a somewhat happy conclusion for Dodson: Because he got a generous cut of the Auto-Tune The News track, which in turn became the first Internet meme to hit the Billboard singles chart, he’s earned enough money to move his family out of the projects and into a new house. And no one’s arguing that what he said wasn’t funny. It takes a lot of courage to subvert the expected anguished-victim response, to actually confront and explode viewers’ just-another-crime-in-the-projects apathy. But we agree with Baratunde Thurston, who <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/08/05/129005122/youtube-bed-intruder-meme" target="_blank">told NPR</a>,]]></html></oembed>