Thankfully nobody sees us
My family is in love with video via the Internet. Google Video, YouTube, anything that shows a moving image of life somewhere else. The number of people that believe their dog can talk is boggling. The people that were blown the length of a beach and into the water by the exhaust from a jet plane were food for puzzlement. The sheer stupidity shown by the collective cast of the Jackass Generation is on public display.
TV has long served up this kind of entertainment. Sponsors have had no problem flogging food and soap to the masses with “home videos” as bait. The difference here is that the economic model is turned upside down. The eyes at my house (and yours, and your neighbour) don’t fit a measurable demographic. The page views generated for Google won’t make or break anyone. Lots of really cheap timefiller, at an hour that meets the lopsided schedule of a teenager.
You have to love the Internet, all the while hoping that OUR home videos aren’t being uploaded…
