{"id":114405,"date":"2009-12-30T07:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/30\/youtubes-sincerest-form-of-flattery-the-response-video-mediamemo\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T07:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:18:06","slug":"youtube%e2%80%99s-sincerest-form-of-flattery-the-response-video-mediamemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/114405","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s Sincerest Form of Flattery: The &#8220;Response&#8221; Video [MediaMemo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t love &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs&amp;feature=player_embedded\">David After Dentist<\/a>&#8220;, the YouTube clip of a doped-up 7-year-old talking to his dad after surgery. Kinda creepy, IMHO. But that&#8217;s just me: It was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091216\/youtubes-most-popular-clips-10-videos-a-lot-of-music-and-half-a-billion-views\/?mod=ATD_sphere\">most popular things on Google&#8217;s (GOOG) video site this year<\/a>, and has logged 42 million views to date.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s where one of YouTube&#8217;s most interesting conventions comes in &#8212; the &#8220;response&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a cynic, you&#8217;d argue that creating a &#8220;response&#8221; video to a popular clip is just a crude attempt to piggyback your way to exposure. And sure enough, &#8220;David&#8217;s&#8221; clip has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/video_response_view_all?v=txqiwrbYGrs\">26 responses<\/a>, and most of them aren&#8217;t terribly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Except for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGTAnXqn9Jc&amp;feature=player_embedded\">this one<\/a>, from the reliably funny guys behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blamesociety.net\/chadvader\/index.php\">Chad Vader<\/a>. Which is why it has nearly 9 million views of its own:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bonus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DxFB5RDmBIA&amp;feature=player_embedded\">parody<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t actually been labeled a &#8220;response&#8221;, from the excellent people at the Upright Citizens Brigade (if you live in New York and haven&#8217;t been to one of their Sunday night <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.ucbtheatre.com\/shows\/12\">Assscat<\/a> shows, you&#8217;re doing something wrong):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091230\/youtubes-sincerest-form-of-flattery-the-response-video\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t love &#8220;David After Dentist&#8220;, the YouTube clip of a doped-up 7-year-old talking to his dad after surgery. Kinda creepy, IMHO. But that&#8217;s just me: It was one of most popular things on Google&#8217;s (GOOG) video site this year, and has logged 42 million views to date. But here&#8217;s where one of YouTube&#8217;s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}