Toss Up: Stars of the 80's and 90's Before Their Time or Stars of Youtube After Their Time?

Serious question I've been pondering lately.  Did the stars of the late 80's-Early 90's arrive before their time? Or are today's Youtube sensations all basking in the fading light of their glow? 

The answer? No. If anything the stars of the 80's would have been enormous mega-stars today. Far greater than anything they achieved during their brief 15 minutes.

Take Right Said Fred (pictured above), guy had a smash hit (or as much of a hit as you could have during the cassette tape days) with "I'm to Sexy" but would he have been even more popular during the youtube age?  Everything about the video screams youtube production. Said Fred probably would have made all the usual tour stops, G4, Tosh.0, the Soup, mocked on Southpark etc... and his web hits would have made the 2~million or so views that the video currently has look like spare change.

Don't believe me? Check out Samwell's "What What in the Butt" Video".  Really a perfect comparison, aside from about being 20 years apart there really isn't too much of a difference between the two songs.  35+Million Freaking Views! 35 million!  Sorry, Said Fred, you'll never be that popular.  Even if you added up all the times your video played on MTV, your few appearances at Spring Break, and cassette tapes sold you won't touch that number.  Pretty sure only Michael Jackson reached those heights in the 80's (coincidentally enough I can't think of anyone from the 80's 90's crossover period who could have taken advantage of Youtube more than MJ, you know before the whole child molesting situation took over). 

Numa-Numa dude, Samwell, and Chocolate Rain guy (61 million views!) all cashed in at just the right time.  Devo, Flock of Seaguls, the afforementioned Said Fred and to some extent Salt-N-Pepa may have paved the road for these guys, but the stars of Youtube burn far brighter than and of the 80's-90's crossovers could have ever dreamed.