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amanda brennan on 08 Jun 11Last summer, a news report appeared on local tv in Huntsville Alabama that was so over the top, someone thought to put it up on YouTube. Someone thought they could autotune it and turn it into a song. a few weeks later, Antoine Dodson had the #3 song on the iTunes R&B chart. There are dozens of covers of the song, which the Gregory Brothers (the autotuners) encourage at the end of the video. How has social media changed what we think about fame? Antoine, like Rebecca Black, ended up doing national TV appearances, and eventually made enough money from selling his song to buy his family a house.