A cable network that’s business model is based on ripping off young, naïve filmmakers who are willing to work for very little, while delivering high quality, innovative content. This model keeps Current’s production costs absurdly low, while the rates they charge for advertising are absurdly high. And while they do not share their multi-million dollar ad revenue with the young filmmakers who make it possible to charge those rates, they do give them the chance to “share their voice” while “democratizing television.”
Film School Graduate 1: “Yo man, Current TV paid me 500 dollars for exclusive rights to that short documentary I spent five months producing.”
Film School Graduate 2: “Wow, your voice is really gonna be heard when they air it in random rotation at some unknown point in the future!"
Film School Graduate 2: “Wow, your voice is really gonna be heard when they air it in random rotation at some unknown point in the future!"
by Truth Inconvenient August 30, 2007
Get the Current TV mug.Grandma currency is what you get paid with when you do something for your grandma. It is usually 5-10 times the amount of money you would get if you were doing the same amount of work for anyone but your grandma.
It takes you an hour to cut your grandma's grass. You would probably get paid about 10 bucks an hour at a landscaping company for doing that, but because it's for your grandma, she pays you in Grandma Currency so she decides to give you 100 bucks for it.
You: Grandma, I'm done cutting your grass.
Grandma: Oh, thank you so much. Here's a little something for you for doing that for me.
(Hands you a fresh 100-dollar bill)
You: Grandma, I'm done cutting your grass.
Grandma: Oh, thank you so much. Here's a little something for you for doing that for me.
(Hands you a fresh 100-dollar bill)
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by ilovesushi July 1, 2014
Get the Disregard women, Acquire currency mug.I tried to currentize an otherwise bland outfit with a couple of leather belts worn stacked around my waist.
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Get the Currenti mug.Extending the metaphor of "surfing" the internet, a Wikipedia rip current is the phenomenon of browsing Wikipedia and getting side tracked for hours by clicking related links.
I got stuck in a Wikipedia rip current, I started reading about the civil war then three hours later I found myself reading about butterflies.
by fmgugle4 July 22, 2011
Get the Wikipedia rip current mug.Misinterpreted translation of "Fuck bitches, get money", from modern Ebonics into archaic English.
A more accurate translation would be "Copulate with females, acquire currency", as clearly the intent of the original phrase is to have sex with women and become rich (ideally simultaneously). However, the more correct version does not fit as neatly into a captioned image.
Alternately, the translation could unwittingly provide a poignant vignette of males who spend a great deal of time on the internet, as they would quite likely be the type to curse women due to their own ineptitude at IRL social interactions. The original translator's assumption that "fuck" should be interpreted as "disregard" (despite the enormous canon of rap literature in which "fuck", when directed towards women, very often refers to the act of coitus) speaks volumes about this.
A more accurate translation would be "Copulate with females, acquire currency", as clearly the intent of the original phrase is to have sex with women and become rich (ideally simultaneously). However, the more correct version does not fit as neatly into a captioned image.
Alternately, the translation could unwittingly provide a poignant vignette of males who spend a great deal of time on the internet, as they would quite likely be the type to curse women due to their own ineptitude at IRL social interactions. The original translator's assumption that "fuck" should be interpreted as "disregard" (despite the enormous canon of rap literature in which "fuck", when directed towards women, very often refers to the act of coitus) speaks volumes about this.
Rob: Man, I'm terrible at dancing. Whenever I peel myself off the couch to go out to the bar, women won't go near me on the dance floor.
Steve: You know what I always say. Disregard females, acquire currency. You're unemployed, though, so probably forget about the second bit.
Rob: ...
Steve: You know what I always say. Disregard females, acquire currency. You're unemployed, though, so probably forget about the second bit.
Rob: ...
by stocking stuffa August 23, 2011
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