Last night I had two memorable discoveries on YouTube:
1. I was disturbed by Martha Stewart’s sick and twisted baby food costume video.
2. I noticed a new button under the commenting box labelled Audio Preview. Press it and your comment will be read back to you by a text-to-speech program. The audio conversion sounds a bit robotic and awkward but I go a kick out of it when I wrote the following comment on Martha “go back to prison” Stewart’s video (click on the image below for a video of the audio preview):
Click on the comment for a video of my reaction to the audio preview
Based on a Twitter search for audio preview it looks like this has been around for about 24 hours.
In the viral, an actor play a gay guy who tells his clueless girlfriend that he was hired by a viral marketing firm to date her because she is a “social connector” in order to create buzz for the film “The women”. It’s pretty funny, especially to people in the ad/marketing world, as it takes target audience insight to the extreme and pokes fun at the obsession to “make viral work for you” in a funny way.
The “Avril Band Aids” are deceptively working to drive the video for Girlfriend to YouTube’s most watched top spot – #1 most viewed video of all time.
The number one position currently belongs to that ‘History of Dance’ clip, which we’re sure you’ve all seen many, many times.
Avriltards have sent out emails to fans to get them to watch Avril’s video as many times possible AND set up automated YouTube view-boosting sites.
The pages automatically reloads Avril’s video every 15 seconds, so as to rack up as many hits as possible, and a letter from the site advises fans to keep a browser window open all day with the page in it.
Seriously? Avril and her droid of retards suck. Do everything in your power to stop this. Watch the evolution of dance, email it to your friends, post it on your Facebook posted items and MySpace profiles, blog about it, send it out on Twitter.
