The integration of text, video, still images, music, and viewer interaction creates an emotional investment that mirror's McDonald's emotional investment into her crush. The interactive capabilities of the piece give deeper context to the project, although available in DVD format, the widespread availability of the project to a larger audience via the web allows for the piece to evolve new meanings and spawn new projects. When asked about public reception to the project, McDonald explained how other artists have taken her piece to an even further level.

"I have heard of two separate artists making spoofs of 'Me and Billy Bob', inserting themselves into my content, again recycling the content."
The general public's access to this project through the web also serves another creative goal as McDonald explains,

"It does matter if [Billy Bob] knows about [the project], that was the point of putting it on the web. A further conceptual project I will be starting is to ask Billy Bob to accept the DVD into his art collection." By accepting the art piece into his own collection, the artist will have achieved what she initially sought, namely a relationship with the movie star.

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, western culture has become obsessed with celebrity and the objectification and consumption of Hollywood stars and their iconic status. Along with the development of new forms of information exchange, the glamour and intrigue surrounding a celebrity's life becomes fetishized by the consumer's interest in the intimate details of celebrities' lives. Through reality television, fabricated and exaggerated accounts of celebrities' personal lives, the line between reality and fiction ahs become blurred and the general public imagines secret affairs with favourite celebrities. This intimate access to celebrities' personal lives and society's inundation with visual images, newspaper accounts, movies, television, and internet fan sites has helped create a feeling of intimacy with one's favourite stars. The celebrity crush has become a certain right of passage into adolescence, a safe way to explore feelings of lust, adoration and longing with a seemingly perfect yet unattainable recipient of affection. Despite the "celebrity crush's" association with adolescents and teens, almost everyone in the general public has had experience, whether they can admit it or not, of a celebrity crush in their adult lives. By taking familiar footage from popular films and injecting new meaning into it, McDonald has succeeded in taking familiar experience form the viewer's life experience and subvert it into a near manic romantic obsession.

McDonald suggests that perhaps the ultimate goal of the website is to attract its very subject, meaning an avid fan of Billy Bob Thornton. By inserting the words "Billy Bob Thornton" into a search engine such as Google, a link to McDonald's site will appear among the legions of fan sites already available for viewer consumption. In theory, an avid fan may stumble upon this site and become witness to the lengths McDonald has gone to in search of intimacy with the object of her desire and see their own feelings of desire and longing visualised onscreen.

Jillian McDonald is a Canadian performance and media artist, now working in New York. She has been making Net Art for 2 years, during which time she has created six projects. Her single-channel and video installations have been shown recently at Video Pool in Winnipeg, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Latitude 53 in Edmonton, VideominutePopTV in Firenze, Italy, White Box - Thomas Erban Gallery, and Art in General in New York City, Stray light in Dublin, The Arizona State University Gallery, Year Zeno One's outdoor LED billboard in Toronto and Star 67 in Brooklyn. McDonald's net art projects such as "Stand by Your Guns", "Things are Okay", "Home Like No Place. Home Like No Place" have garnered huge attention recently, yet she considers herself a visual artist first and foremost and has also been creating public participation-based interventions for three years.