The greatest viral videos are the ones that get re-made over
and over. One type of viral video that
has many different topics and editions is the bad lip readings. The bad lip reading videos take clips from
television shows, news, movies, and sports, and put different voices and
reading that match the lip movements of the people on camera. The first lip readings were done to music
videos such as “Boom Boom Pow” and “Our Song.”
My favorite bad lip reading is the NFL Edition. It is hilarious seeing these big tough
football players saying this stuff and the voices they use for each athlete and
coach is comical. In this class, we have
talked about how big new media has become in the sporting world. This video shows just that. The video on YouTube has over 55 million
views with thousands of comments on the video.
The best part about these videos is everyone is different. There are always different saying and
different clips to show.
My favorite scene is when the 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh
starts screaming “I want cake now!” at the referee. Some of the scenes are so spot on that you can’t
even tell if they are true or false.
These videos easily go viral which somewhat surprises me. I saw one the other day with Barack Obama and the song 'Fancy' it was pretty funny, but to me nothing spectacular. it surprises me that these go viral so easily because of the fact that there is nothing outrageous about these videos and no much special about them. I do love those McDonalds commercials with the NFL players on the sideline talking in little kids voices. Here it is:
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But, like we talked about in class these viral videos require a stickiness factor and to me these don't provide that much.