When I was 5 and first began playing soccer, every other kid on the team had a role model they wanted to be like. I remember being the only one on the team who didn’t want to follow anyone. Sometimes though, I wished I had some who influenced me. My coach once told me, it’s never too late to get influenced by someone.
This is a blog about how I got influenced by someone who I barely understood or knew the existence of until 16 months ago. Mike Sorrentino. Do you know him? Born in 1981? Italian-American? Maybe you’ll know his nickname. The Situation. Yeah, that’s right, the biggest influence in my life(only within 16 months) is The Sitch.
MTV aired a reality show about the Jersey lifestyle. And the rest as they say, is history. Although MTV comes out with many shows, not all of them do well. Jersey Shore surpassed all expectations. The first episode attracted 1.375 million viewers. That’s unprecedented for a premiere. It has only grown in popularity and the season three episode 2 garnered a whopping 8.87 million viewers. It has inspired an entire genre of similar shows. With a minimal promotion budget focussing on commercials, the show created a phenomenon, which is worthy of being studied in classes.
Back to The Sitch, He’s was an assistant manager of a fitness center who got unemployed and then shot to fame. A party animal, he uses his popularity not only to endorse his own line of clothing, vitamins, workouts, shoes, vodka and rap, but also being socially responsible about The Candie Foundation’s Pause Before You Play campaign.
His most famous contribution to mankind will be the discovering and categorizing the existence of“landmines, grenades, grenade launcher, submarine, tank and a-bombs.”
