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3,2,1 – eBay Movie Trailer Is Good Fun
14. Aug
We still have to wait until October to see if the movie The Social Network aka The Facebook Movie is entertaining or not. It is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires is telling the origin of Facebook – with liberal fact-checking and without Facebook sanctioning the production of the book. Some of the events have likely been dramatised to create an exciting storyline which could help the movie find a broader audience, too (not that 500 million Facebook users would not be enough of a potential audience already).
So we don’t know yet if the movie will be entertaining but its trailer has already sparked some funny spoofs which are all worth watching. It all started with a fictional YouTube movie trailer, followed by the Twitter movie trailer and the latest parody of an eBay movie trailer. In case you haven’t seen them all, I’ve collected them here in chronological order. You should watch the Facebook movie trailer first to get the references in the other videos
Meet The New Star: Fred The Raver
12. Aug
Do you have pictures or videos from your childhood online? Probably not, it would most likely mean scanning old photos or even worse, digitalise video tapes. We all had our great moments. Funny, cute, nasty, terrifying or embarrassing. In most cases, those memories belong to you and your family alone. These days, kids and teenagers play by different rules. Do something crazy and you end up on YouTube, Failblog or other platforms.
The latest star I have seen is Fred The Raver. I love him though. Fred (if it’s his real name) is not in the same Schadenfreude category as the poor Star Wars Kid or this little fellow. However, also not as talented as the kid with the ukelele. Hence I found Fred posted on the Stanton Warrior’s Facebook wall. Which is almost as good as if Kool & the Gang would have used a picture of me as a baby as an album cover. Well done, Fred! Rave on!
