One of my jobs at CollegeHumor is to maintain the Cute College Girl section. It actually started my first day as an intern almost two years ago, back then we called it Cute Cheerleader of the Week. When I found cheerleaders were hard to come by we broadened our search. I sent out email interviews and girls sent in pictures. The ball was rolling. Then that Summer we got a bunch of new interns, including my friend Jeff “Rosie” Rosenberg- who came on to help me with the growing Cute Girl section.
We started putting up two girls a week, and to get the interviews done faster and make them more fun, we started doing them over AIM. The submissions kept coming in and soon we began adding three girls a week. We got even more help this past Summer from a new intern, Jake “Tick Tock the Klock” Klocksien.
Doing the interviews over AIM really felt like the heyday of Cute College Girl. The section was always supposed to be sexy, but it was becoming genuinely funny as well, since AIM allowed for some great back and forth banter. Take for example, this piece of conversation between Rosie and a Cute Girl named Diana:
Diana: Ew I hate meat!
Rosie: Are you a Pagan?
Diana: Isn’t that something religious?
Rosie: I know what I said. Answer the question.
A few weeks ago, we ramped up to 5 girls a week. And while we wish we could keep the conversational tone of an AIM interview, it just isn’t possible to devote that much time to the section. It’s almost bittersweet. We now have the ease of an automatically generated set of interview questions for a girl to fill out, but we no longer have the witty banter that made the interviews so fun. Rosie and I did our best to come up with hundreds of amusing questions (If you could be any insect- excluding a butterfly- what would you be?) but it’s not the same.
I had to set all this up so you would understand the breath of fresh air and the unintentional joy that I received from our latest Cute College Girl, whose first language is not english. We usually edit interviews for grammar, but we decided to leave this one intact. I’m happy to know that even as the site grows and by default becomes slightly less personal we can still find ways to keep things funny- even if it’s not on purpose.
