
What’s your crazy costume? What’s your silly dance? This formula, like Where the Hell is Matt? 2008 (45 million views), gives a simple way to see how different people make the same idea their own and reveal something of themselves in the process. Each video gives us a glimpse of who these people are. Great marks here as well, and this rule is crucial to the success of the phenomenon. Again, contagious content has to be different, and this phenomenon is exactly that. The same dancing would wear thin if the videos were even a minute long, but at thirty seconds, they are great bite-sized videos that you (or your kids) can devour like candy. But all these videos are quick and get right down to business. Yes, some may argue that the whole phenomenon is a waste of time. That’s sticking to simple, strong Internet production techniques that keep it true and make it contagious. Each of these videos is documenting a real event with a single, fixed camera and only one edit. Second, it scores very well on all four of our rules for creating viral videos. What makes this phenomenon so contagious?įirst, it’s a simple, effective formula, so it’s easy for people to join in and make their own. I understand it's just an easy way to make a few million (look up his net worth, you'll flip) but he doesn't need to be around children if his heart is not there.And even the Norwegian Army got involved (18 million views): I could just tell he was doing this for the money. People like that dont need to have a profession involving children. He was hollering at him to stop squirming. It hurt my son to open his mouth, and instead of being patient, the pediatrician picked him up, laid him down on the table and pried his mouth open while he screamed the whole time. His primary pediatrician was out of the country and was replaced by a young doctor who looked and acted like hes never treated a kid before in his life.

To top it off, he had a fever and this years pollen count was murder on his allergies. He was also trying to cut two molars through a bed of fresh ulcers from the virus. Just a bit off topic: My two-year-old just went through an ear infection which left his mouth wide open to herpes virus A. It takes a VERY special person to work with children. But he is in the wrong profession and I'm sure he knows it. You can tell by the way he blows kids off and avoids them.

Society flipped out when he got caught masterbating in a gay theater and they ostracized him for many years.īlippi does not like children. Peewee was never even supposed to be for kids (see his playhouse standup routine.) You wouldn't see him connecting with children. Look at the contrast between someone like Levar Burton and Paul Rubens (Peewee Herman.) Burton was always with kids, listened to them, read to them, and just basically connected with them. There is a big difference between someone who creates a persona for a job and one who really loves children. He made gross-out videos for the purposes of views and ad revenue, so he was already in the game of using viral videos for the purposes of making money. The Harlem Shake video he posted was not just a stunt. But, I deeply do not believe Blippi made some kind of turn around. Your points about permanent history are totally correct. Assuming someone is trying to better themself/society, I am personally willing to look past ones shiity behavior in their for formatible years (yes, pun absolutely intended).Ĭlearly Blippi saw that an honest way to make money is by making videos for kids, not the crap he was churning out previously (again, pun totally intended), and I respect the turn around. The human brain does not fully mature until your 20's, and some people maintain immaturity well beyond that. Knowing that the internet is more or less permanent, it begs the question: How do we as a society deal with past, I guess I'll call it "youthful indiscretions" online. My son is almost 4, and while we still have a bit of time before he's posting stuff to the internet, the wife and I have had numerous conversations about how we are going to stress to him that once its online, it is there forever. Now a days, if it you post a pic, vid or type out text (like here on reddit), I'd consider it on the internet forever. That's not the case now, you post a YouTube video, it is immediately replicated across numerous other channels or platforms. I'm 36, and shit that I did online, when the internet was becoming popular (earlyish days of AOL, MySpace, geocities, etc, for example) is likely lost at this point.

Something the younger Millennials/Gen Y and whatever is coming next is having to deal with the notion of the permanence of the internet. You know.this is an interesting thing to explore.hear me out.
