After the fans of her infancy had wandered away, when she had quit posting anything but ever darker profile pics of the latest known-obscure images of the web, there came a change. Rome, still linked to millions of friends on Facepage, began to post videos from a comedy group that consisted of her friends in high school. She used the connections from the site to get the group started, herself appearing in a few of the sketches but never as a major actress. The stuff was sophomoric at best, adults being obnoxious and kids having all the answers they needed at the time but there was a certain cleverness about the writing. A certain outsider’s touch, like the voice of someone you’ve never heard before speaking across a room of familiar tones. “Oh my God, you’ve been on Facepage for like, four hours talking to your 247 friends. And of those people, you think…like maybe 6 have actually hung out with you in the past week?” They were the kind of jokes that were only funny if they were told in person. Many of the comment sections derided these scenes and said that the writer should be suspended from school for such stupidity, but the people who made these comments were hardly capable of judging anything except what they liked anyways. There were enough watchable sketches, not necessarily funny ones, that a following began to develop thanks to Rome’s distribution. People began to check back to their website for weekly updates. And thus internet fans are born. After the show moved to its own website people began to forget she had anything to do with it at all. One of the male actors who wrote most of the better episodes once commented, “Great, we’re popular on the internet. By the time I get to a bar and tell a girl who I am, we’ll be old news again.”
