Isn't YouTube wonderful? Ever since its inception on Valentine's Day, 2005, loads of content has been uploaded to this household-name video sharing site. There's the people doing amazing things, people hurting themselves doing amazing things, kids and animals doing amazingly cute things, and people commenting on people hurting themselves doing amazing things and kids and animals doing amazingly cute things. Did you follow that? It's basically an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. Well there's also TV Shows, film trailers, advertisements from around the world... just think of anything you could watch and it's probably on there. What I'm trying to say is that in the wealth of endless entertainment it's getting harder to find the odd video that isn't shoved in your face - that is, most videos people watch are the stuff that gets reported in the news for getting X million hits, like Justin Bieber's Baby, or Rebecca Black's Friday, or PSY's Gangnam Style...So as a recurring item in this blog I've been showing a few videos that aren't as popular (probably to spark some interest and get some credibility as a YouTube video recommender), but now there's a bit of a backlog to catch up on, so here's a post to clear the list. And for those that don't just want videos, I've still got bits of written stuff about things in here too. Hope you enjoy.
In this edition - British Entertainment, American Entertainment, Popularity, Japanese Entertainment, and life as a musical.
British Entertainment
So first off, remember that in April it was the 100th anniversary of the Titanic? Well for starters did you know about the idea the Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has to build the Titanic II? Well I just thought I'd mention it. It's set for launch in 2016, but I'm sure there's going to be some interesting commentary on the project in the years to come.
On that note, let me segue into my first clip of the post, a clip from BBC show Russell Howard's Good News. Now I've already mentioned a bit back how I enjoyed a show called Harry Hill's TV Burp, which has now ended production. So Good News has a similar presence: take a stand-up comedian and get him to commentate on the week's interesting news stories, as well as appearances from mystery guests. Consider it a one man version of TV3's 7 Days (coincidentally, BBC has a similar show, Mock the Week, which Russell Howard features on). So here's a clip on the Titanic:
American Entertainment
Being a moderate consumer of international game show videos on YouTube, I can say that a majority of British game shows require a bit more thought than their American counterparts. I mean, not to say Wipeout isn't interesting. It's probably a show I'd watch frequently if I was in the right mindset. It's got just that right mix of humour and physical activity.
But then for once, I found a show online called Million Dollar Mind Game, based on a Russian game show (with a title I can't pronounce, but the English equivalent is What? Where? When?), where a team of six pool their minds together to solve riddles quickly. For once it's an adequately brain-engaging game. Just a shame it was effectively cancelled after six episodes. Just goes to show what shows are popular in the US.
Popularity (A bit with more writing in it than the other bits)
Ok so a bit more background, most of the time companies are paying for these likes in order to boost their product, spending hundreds for thousands of likes.
Now, you're more than welcome to buy your likes as much as you want. I don't really care personally, since I emotionally checked out of Facebook two posts ago. And to be honest, I think people that trust a product with a high 'like' count without factoring anything else in could be slapped or something.
And don't get me started on the people that say "OMG like for a rate", "like for a letter", "like for a [insert something teen girls are talking about this week]"...
JUST WHY??!!! GET OUTSIDE AND DO THINGS INSTEAD OF THIS IMMATURE *****!!!
*5 minutes of cooling down later*
Wow, I think that's the first time I've had to resort to actually using capital letters and asterisks for my own speech.
I think The Oatmeal sums it up fully... and as soon as I get a decent camera you'll see that sing-along video about loading a dishwasher very soon afterwards, Mr. Inman.
And on the subject of things girls-that-shouldn't-be-allowed-to-use-Facebook like, what do all these have in common?
Jersey Shore
Geordie Shore
The GC
The Only Way is Essex
That's right, most people want to beat these shows to death with a stick! Well done.
How on earth are these shows popular? Actually, now that I think about it, that question ranks in difficulty to "What's the meaning of life?", in which we're not gonna know for a long long time.
But apparently the majority of the world's popularity are following this insane style of what could loosely be called 'entertainment', and to explain what I mean by this we go back to Russell Howard...
Japanese entertainment
Boy, we have nothing on Japanese game shows. I'm just going straight into the clip here, I don't think there's much to explain here.
...and no, she didn't actually die.
So in the realm of things that don't require translation, I present... Japanese comedy! Yes, that's right... for once you no longer need translation skills to enjoy the comedic stylings of overseas citizens. Here's a duo that performs under the name "Gamarjobat":
Life as a Musical
And finally, to build on to the foundation that Michael Bublé started with last week with his music video Haven't Met You Yet, it's a common (albeit brief) discussion point about having life with more dance numbers. So to wrap up this week's post here's Neil Patrick Harris.
And that's it from me for this week.. see you next time.
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