Yesteday I read this article on Gawker about the death of viral videos. Maybe death is too strong of a word, but according to them, viral is definitely in its decline. I probably agree; I’ve stopped featuring my favorite ‘tubes on Balding Angrily because I don’t want to bog down this site with stuff you can get anywhere. Instead I’ve been dumping those small bits of retardedness onto my friends or showing them to my nieces.
When I lobbed “The Renewed Mind is the Key” over to Mr. T, I thought the comedy came from “Ohmygaw. They’re Christian. They think they’re good, and they’re so not.” If I were to have posted it, it would have come off as mocking Christians.
So, here’s a new video. (via gigglesugar)
This somewhat alleviates my fear that I was laughing at Christians in that other video. I say somewhat because it could be true that I’m mocking Europeans instead of Christians. It may be true that I’ve substituted one other for a different other. (Sorry Magnus. The blog and I are U.S.-centric.)
However, it could also be true that I’m just laughing at bad dancing in both videos. Which is sad. Because little 14 year-old Alex would have loved the dancing. Little 14 year-old Alex used to sit in bleachers in the gym with his head in his hands and his elbows on his knees, and with stars in his eyes he would rapturously watch the dance troop do their routines at half-time. And little 14 year-old Alex would think to himself, “I don’t want boobs or a vagina, but I really want to dance like that. That is soooooo cool.”
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