This is what everything boils down to online. This was a video I made in 2006 of the animatronic Barney developed by Microsoft. This is, by far, the most popular video I have ever done. Pathetic, no?
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I would love to be able to reprogram it. Oh the evil possibilities!!
When the batteries in those fargin things get low, they start singing at random times. I recall emptying a big toybox in the middle of the night to get at that damn thing and kill it.
Happy day when that little bastard went in the trash.
Didn’t President Obama make the exact same speech to the UN yesterday?
(Zing!!! Waaaaaaaay off topic!)
Thanks for putting that stupid song in my head.
#4 thank you folks! Be here all week!
The very useless “cork in the bottle” video is more interesting than that. It just shows you that there are a lot of children watching YouTube.
It looks like it was taken in a bathroom. I watched it in the hope you’d flush it down the loo. John, I’m disappointed!!
yeah, I was waiting (praying for) a sledge hammer to come crashing down on the thing in the last 2 seconds. The Tickle Me Emo video is considerably more satisfying. (sorry, John.)
Pathetic? No way!
For the level of intellect in humans over the past 30 years, it is a gold standard.
Mike Judge had it right on the money with Idiocracy.
In his film the number one film was just a butt on the screen for two hours.
Yours may be too highbrow now.
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NO CLICK FOR YOU!
Isn’t that sweet?
Definitely says something. It says that we’ve raised a generation of dimwits. Just read the comments from just about any Youtube video.
John, I am not sure which is more irritating. The fact that it is popular or the fact that you felt like that needed to be posted on YouTube in the first place.
John,
If it’s clicks you are looking for; do a Monty Python theme update, Substitute your knobby foot here.
Fill Barney up with ketchup and kablam. After the kids get over the initial trauma, they will learn to love it.
You will engender a youth following that will carry you into retirement.
You got to go with what works.
This is coming from a man who is addicted to sound effects?
Just curious. Did you get anything from the Youtube Partner Program?
that is by far the best video you have ever posted dvorak! what the hell happened!?!
that is by far the best video you have ever posted dojorak! what the hell happened!?!
Just be happy it wasn’t a doll of the President. Any President! You would have gotten a lot more hits though!
That reminds me? Where is the singing Barack Obama doll?
Found it! http://cgi.ebay.com/%28-FIGURE-BARACK-OBAMA-SINGING-DANCING-DOLL-14%22-LTD-RARE_W0QQitemZ380084225126QQcmdZViewItem
Pathetic? Yes.
But it only shows what most people like to watch online, nothing more or less. Don’t draw any deeper conclusions from that, Dvorak.
My most popular youtube clip passed 2 mil. mark some time ago, and it is the “dumbest” video of all my youtube videos too. WHat does it mean? Nothing. People like silly stuff.
What is most surprising is the fact that Dvorak have a singing Barney doll in the bathroom!
WTF?!
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I wonder what he says when u kick him in the groin… “Change!” ?
John,
The next video should be of you holding and hugging Barney while you sing his song with him. That would be precious! 🙂
Hey it beats listening to Adam Curry on No Agenda!
Ba-zing! *rimshot*