Comments for "You are a Pirate! RAUNCHYY!!" Video at VideoSift.com

By InvaderSil

InvaderSil (http://www.videosift.com/member/InvaderSil) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:24:20 -0800

that's sooo wrong.

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:05:41 -0800

upvote for.... OOOH, MALE ARCHERY!!

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:08:02 -0800

Heck yeah!

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:59:31 -0800

Come on.. *viral

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:59:32 -0800

Video added to viral channel (viral called by gold star member joedirt)

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:23:44 -0800

Huh? Now I'm totally confused. How is this viral??

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:14:40 -0800

It is done identical the the first Yatta video. Take a foreign music video, put in fake subtitle with similar sounding words, spread around internets. That's pretty viral. Q-F-Leaves!

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:16:54 -0800

Spreading around the internet makes something viral? Then everything on the internet is viral!

Would you mark all the family guy clips that come through here as viral? Futurama? Those Mentos and soda clips?

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:21:12 -0800

viral - clever commercials promoting a product or service designed to proliferate a marketing campaign through entertaining video

Is this a commercial directly? No. OK, is it meant to advertise something although not directly so? It could be advertising LazyTown, sure. But LazyTown is a show for kids, and something tells me "Cock" in your viral video is not something you'd want to throw in in order to gain an appreciative audience of parents and children.

No offense, but I totally disagree with you on this. Otherwise, you are very cool and whatnot.

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:21:25 -0800

In addition to viral marketing campaigns, I feel viral also applies to true viral videos. Stupid hamster dance that spreads around on the basis of it's viral feel. SWK or numa numa is not viral in your mind?

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:22:49 -0800

No, because I view viral as marketing campaign specific. I do see how you might think that, but my definition of viral is inline with videosift's, as I posted above.

In fact, I think the line drawn on viral should be at the commercial level, because if it isn't, then we'd have to start marking almost everything as viral.

By arrendek

arrendek (http://arrendek.videosift.com) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:27:23 -0800

In fact, going to Wikipedia's page on viral video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_video You will see a definition which agrees with you. However, if you go down farther, you'll see a list of "Notable Viral Video Sites". Notice something about that list? It's a superset of the list of sites that videosift sifts from.

All this said, however, I'm leaving on the tag since you're like 10 times my rank here and have been here longer. I wouldn't mind bringing this up in Sift Talk though, as it's been bothering me as of late. I just don't want to take advantage of the Talk post issue and I'm not sure if this really deserves discussion, or if it's just me.

Edit: Oooh, I see the new quality action, so I guess I can feel more free to post things on Talk. Awesome.

By dw1117

dw1117 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dw1117) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:12:58 -0800

This is beyond awesome. If I could give more than one vote I would.

I'm also pretty confused on the viral defenition too and I've been a member for some time now.

By bizinichi

bizinichi (http://www.videosift.com/member/bizinichi) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:57:55 -0800

Oh god this is beautiful. effin' interweb gold!
LOL, LIMEWIRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUe-Ebe8dWU

By bizinichi

bizinichi (http://www.videosift.com/member/bizinichi) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:01:31 -0700

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:01:32 -0700

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Friday 2nd March 2007 (promotion called by gold star member bizinichi)