Could This Kickstarter Project About Chris Crocker Yield the Definitive Doc of the YouTube-Era?

In 2007, a 19-year-old from Tennessee named Chris Crocker used YouTube to defend a mildly disturbed pop star named Britney Spears. His efforts didn't quite sway her detractors, but the gargantuan amount of attention he received for yelling, "Leave Britney Alone" proved that YouTube was a startup starmaker -- and you only needed a camera and a computer to plug yourself into its intergalactic Jumbotron. Now, a new documentary called Me At the Zoo about the platinum-topped viral phenom needs Kickstarter cash to finish production. Could your investment be worth it?

I love the idea of this movie. A patchwork of Internet clips and interstitial audio commentary? Sure, Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott's recent documentary Life in a Day -- composed entirely of user-submitted YouTube clips from around the world -- poses as an au courant "film made by you," but if we're really going to chronicle the mania of YouTube, why not investigate the most memorable, incendiary figure in its history? The fact that Crocker's story dovetails with the era of pop culture history in which he became popular is also ideal. When you think of Britney and her umbrella drama, you think of Chris Crocker. That's an unprecedented type of connection in entertainment history, and it deserves a documentary.

Other things I love about this movie, so far:

1. The title Me at the Zoo. It refers to the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, but we can safely say that Chris Crocker is his own species of commentator.

2. OK, there was a kickass VH1 show once called FanClub where superfans of bands showed off their freakish collections of memorabilia and gathered together to watch their idols in concert. I am still traumatized by an ABBA maniac who turned an entire treehouse into a meditation hut where he could stare at his massive ABBA collage, turn on ABBA Gold, and "concentrate on Frida's voice." The Britney collection in Crocker's room reminds me of that. Which is fab.

3. The mysterious black and purple cloak/dress he's wearing at 2:37. Like something Virginia Woolf's Orlando would wear in a low-budget remake without Tilda Swinton. And with Chris Crocker.

I'm rooting for this. Don't leave him alone.

· 'Me at the Zoo' [Kickstarter]