So I’m sure you’ve all seen the story about Corey Delaney, the 16 year old Melbourne dude who threw a massive party while his folks were out of town last week, racking up A$20,000 (about £9,000) worth of damages, and (with balls of steel) proclaimed it on-air to b e the “best party EVER”.

The video of which made its way onto YouTube where it, not surprisingly went down a storm.

But such is the speed of microcelebrity in the digital age that it didn’t stop there.

You can now not only see the video, but you can buy the t-shirt

Annoyed by his slacker smugness? You can slap some sense into Corey

Hell, even Paris Hilton’s in on the game (OK so that one might be made up)

The man himself has allegedly signed a A$10,000 deal with Zoo magazine, and is said to be launching his career as a party planner.

When Andy Warhol said that everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame, I doubt he could have forecast how quickly microcelebrity would be generated by the power of the internet.

Or, no doubt, how quickly their 15 minutes (seconds?) would be over…