HBO Won't Leave Chris Crocker Alone

HBO announced that they have bought the US broadcast rights for Me @ The Zoo, about Chris Crocker, the infamous video blogger of "Leave Britney Alone" fame. The documentary will also screen at the Sundance film festival later this month.

Chris Crocker | Me @ The Zoo

Chris Crocker became famous during the height of the paparazzi's obsession with Britney Spears, in 2007, when Crocker made an impassioned plea for the press to Leave Britney Alone on his YouTube channel.

Judging by the trailer, directors Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch have set out to explore the phenomenon of internet celebrity, video-sharing and social media storytelling. The title is a reference to the first video ever uploaded to YouTube.

What's so fascinating about this story, is that the story continues even beyond the documentary, as Chris Crocker still regularly posts videos to YouTube, his latest video, is a reaction to news of the HBO distribution deal.

Chris Crocker has always been an endless source of curiosity and fascination for me. After Leave Britney Alone, he tried to prove, using various social profiles that there's more to him than the butt of late-night TV jokes.

His Twitter bio once read "Trying so hard not to be the person I never was."

To keep up with Chris Crocker online is to find his campy pop songs, sexually explicit photos and rumours of a hotly anticipated debut in adult entertainment.