Hey kids, forget everything your parents told you about working hard – it appears the best way to achieve success is to start wailing uncontrollably on YouTube because someone you inexplicably admire is acting like a dickhead.

Pretty much the whole world has seen the YouTube video called 'LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!' in which a desperately androgynous young person cries and cries and cries and threatens to kill himself unless people stop writing mean things about Britney Spears all the time. Well, it seems like the TV buzz-phrase this season is 'uncomfortably unstable Britney Spears obsessives' because Chris Crocker, the star of the 'LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!' YouTube video has just signed a deal to star in his own TV show. Although details are scant about Chris Crocker's TV project, it's thought to be a cross between Avocats et Associés and a sobbing fucking moron getting disturbingly worked up about someone he's never met doing something that'll never affect him like a tit.

YouTube has made plenty of heroes in its short lifespan, from the Chocolate Rain idiot to the Free Hugs idiot to any of the thousands of idiots who just post videos of themselves babbling away about nothing in the vain hope that some bigshot TV producer with cack-all better to do than waste his day trying to find a video of Shakira almost taking her shirt off during Live Earth stumbles across a 30-second clip of them carping on about what they had for their tea and realise he's discovered the next David Frost.

The scary thing is, though, that it's happening. And you just need to look at Chris Crocker for proof. Although you don't know him by name, you'll be aware of his face. And his massively annoying voice. And the genuinely disturbing stalkerish way his obsessive brain works, because he's the man behind this infamous YouTube video, posted in the wake of Britney Spears' MTV VMA trainwreck of a performance…

So far over eight million people have watched Chris Crocker have a nervous breakdown on camera because Britney Spears forgot how to mime to her own song. And, obviously, because so many people indulged their curiosity enough to see if Chris Crocker really was being as dangerously unstable as everyone said, it means that just as many people will happily tune in to see Chris Crocker host his own TV show every week. It had better mean that because, as the Chicago Sun-Times reports, Chris Croker's got his own TV show:

Chris Croker, who posted on MySpace.com a passionate defense of the pop singer after her performance on MTV's Video Music Awards, has been signed to a development deal with 44 Blue Productions, Variety reports. Even before the "Leave Britney Alone" posting, which scored nearly 8 million hits after it was posted on YouTube.com, the emotive video blogger had developed a MySpace following. "Chris first got on our radar a year ago," 44 Blue co-founder Rasha Drachkovitch told Variety. "It's going to pretty much be 'The Chris Crocker Experience,'" he said. "He's going to be a TV star."

Words honestly fail us. We would like to see what ideas Chris Crocker's got for his TV show, though, because we're desperate to see him present a You've Been Framed-style home video clip show where he gets more and more violently tearful each time anyone dares to laugh at any of the videos – even if it's just one of a puppy with a shoebox on its head – until he ends each show a hysterical wreck, pounding weakly at the ground with his fists and cursing God for making humans so cruel. Either that or a show where Chris Crocker is shut in a box like David Blaine. And then left, hopefully.

But, hey, maybe Chris Crocker getting a TV show isn't such a bad thing after all. Admittedly, we'd rather saw our own face off than watch it, but if it opens the door for this guy getting a job presenting a factual highbrow documentary series about modern architecture in post-war Europe, then we're all for it.

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Pro-Britney Blogger Gets Deal For Show – Chicago Sun-Times