Leave Britney Alone Guy Is New Web Star
September 21, 2007 By SAMIRA JAFARI, Associated Press Writer
Internet celebrity Chris Crocker poses at a park near his home in Tennessee Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The teenager has captured millions of viewers on MySpace and YouTube with his passionate, campy and sometimes furious monologues about life. It was "Leave Britney Alone" -- a profane, smeared-mascara answer to critics of Spears' performance on the MTV Video Music Awards -- that earned him instant fame and 8 million YouTube clicks.(AP Photo/Earl Carter)
(AP) -- Chris Crocker has been called "queer," "a human train wreck," the "Britney guy," an androgynous "it" and much, much worse. But how does this 19-year-old Internet phenomenon, known worldwide for his tearful YouTube defense of Britney Spears, define himself?
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