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What makes viral viral?
Apr 5th
Yet another YouTube video slid through my reader today:
Now that you’ve jumped and laughed at yourself, watch it again. It’s obvious to me that it’s a fake:
- Who records vehicles around them for any length of time unless there’s a specific reason? It’s a boring flatbed truck and a small trailer. What’s the draw?
- The woman doesn’t make a sound once the board goes through the window. I’d be cussing! Or at the very least breathing hard. Not a sound.
So how many views is considered viral? I know why I pass this one around, it’s the shocky-jump part. It’s funny! Gets your heart racing a bit. This one has almost 350,000 views. She says she turned off comments, likely because too many people think it’s fake and called her on it.
Whatever, keep passing it around. Make people jump!
I should sue
Jul 16th
I love McDonalds’ hot apple pies. I know they’re not really apple pies, but two for $1? You can’t beat that. Well not anymore.
Kira and I ran up to McDonalds (indoor play area, duh) for dinner last night. I had a chicken Caesar salad and while I was picking out the teeny tomatoes (shut up, tomatoes are gross) Kira said “I like those!”
There was an entire conversation where she wouldn’t say tomato, she called them potatoes. So I fumbled with my mobile to try and recreate it. I should know better, right? You just can’t recreate funny childhood moments.
The important part of the video is the last couple of seconds. That’s when Kira’s chewing away at her half of my apple pie and comes upon the surprise ingredient. A long blond hair. She just kept pulling and pulling, it must have been eight inches long.
GROSS!
I should sue. Not the local store, as these things are pre-packaged elsewhere. Do I sue corporate? The kid got over it pretty quick, but their hot apple pies are ruined for me forever! Pain and suffering, PAIN AND SUFFERING!
All the single ladies my ass
Sep 16th
So just for shits and giggles I decided to watch the five nominated Best Female Videos to see if Kanye West had a point. I mean, I had to go look for them HERE because I don’t see a lot of videos in my life. Didn’t there used to be a whole cable channel devoted to music videos?
- Taylor Swift’s “You Belong To Me.” Won? It’s a cute little video where nerd girl wants boy, boy has cheerleader, cheerleader shits on boy, boy sees nerd girl, love. Wasn’t that a movie a few years ago?
- Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” makes no fucking sense at all. She’s singing a song to the single ladies to get a ring on it before… what? Can’t understand half the words and I ain’t looking them up. The point is, she’s singing to the ladies yet dancing half naked to entice all the single men. Or boys rather. Mixed message anyone? Female empowerment my sweet patootie.
- Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold” is an amusing video. At least the story goes with the song and it looked like fun, but it seemed kind of ’80s to me.
- Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” may have had a story to it, but it was more close-ups of her face. Why bother trying to make a story video if you’re not going to show the story?
- Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” was at least visually stimulating. Lots of sparkles and costumes and interesting camera shots.
- Pink’s “So What” actually had a real story to it, and seemed completely in character to what little I know of Pink’s actual life. I could see her having this kind of a meltdown and that made it fun.
Kanye should stop talking with/as his dick. Sure Beyonce is beautiful and talented, but that video was a waste. She looks like a jerking Barbie Doll and shakes her ass. That’s it. Nothing to do with the actual song as demonstrated here with someone’s edited version (thanks Iain).
I would have picked Pink’s as the best of that bunch, hands down. She’s kicking ass and chainsawing down trees. Now that’s female empowerment!
Thought I'd share a smile
Sep 12th
No matter how you feel about Oprah, THIS is the coolest thing! I wonder how they set this up.
You can’t NOT have a smile on your face right now. Wasn’t that great?
If you don’t see the video, go HERE.
We need to do something like this (on a much smaller scale) with ImprovAZ. Just show up at some concert and do something choreographed. That would be excellent!
