Feature Article #1

Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday

Posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, “Chocolate Rain” has rapidly become an extremely popular internet meme with a banging 24 million views and over 186,000 comments as of June 15, 2008. This song and music video written and performed by the YouTube award-winning singer Tay Zonday is currently the topic of several parodies, remixes, […]

Popularity: 17% [?]

vdr | June 16th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

YouTube’s Project Direct Winner

Just recently, the YouTube website conducted a competition for those who are considered amateurs in the film making industry. Three winners will be chosen who will be granted a scholarship at the Vancouver Film School. Participants where asked to submit an original 6-minute film as an entry for the competition. After a few months, […]

Popularity: 15% [?]

vdr | June 15th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Teen Pranksters Posted an Apology on YouTube

The two teens, ages 15 and 16, from central Florida who posted a prank on YouTube have finally found their match when a judge commanded them to post a video apology that shows the boys handcuffed and faced down on top of a car.
The lads yelled “Fire in the hole!” as they threw a cup […]

Popularity: 22% [?]

vdr | June 14th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Inmates Dancing Thriller

Do you know what makes prisoners busy in jails? I always have this impression that prisoners are either wrestling with their fellow brawny inmates or just doing basically nothing. Well, that’s what I’ve noticed from movies or television shows.
But, that is not the case for these 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation […]

Popularity: 21% [?]

vdr | June 10th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

The Simpsons Makes Fun of Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell, the most notorious and firm judge of American Idol, has finally found his match. This very funny clip from The Simpsons making fun of Simon Cowell was featured last year in American Idol. Seems like Simon didn’t get mad after watching the parody at all, he merely posed his famous grin.
The caricature […]

Popularity: 24% [?]

vdr | June 9th, 2008 | Continued

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“You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.” - Lev Grossman, Time

Here at Smelt Productions, we celebrate the revolutionary collaboration made possible by the World Wide Web. It’s digital democracy […]

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