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Dancing Baby Technology Has Barely Improved In The Last 13 Years

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:53:31 +0000

People often assume that YouTube videos of people hurting themselves or cute animals being cute or dancing children are the lowest form of entertainment, but they’re wrong. The lowest form of entertainment is the poorly CGI-d baby doing something babies don’t usually do, like talk or dance. The original horribly fake looking yet strangely popular dancing baby appeared in 1996, and even though YouTube has offered up MANY recent examples of ACTUAL DANCING by REAL TODDLERS whose parents would no doubt jump at the chance to use ad money to finance their talented tots’ education at one of those schools like the one in Fame, companies like Evian are still hiring animators to make things like this.

Friday Fight: Should Dancing Babies Be On YouTube?

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:16:27 +0000

gabe: someone took down the baby doing the stanky leg video
gabe: oh, NOW you are going to start being a parent to your child?
gabe: i feel like if you don’t realize what is going to happen
gabe: when you tape your baby GRINDING
gabe: on the kitchen counter
gabe: and put it on the internet
gabe: then you should not be allowed to remove that video when you change your mind
gabe: it’s just fair to us
lindsay: yeah, there should be a lock.
gabe: i’m sorry, poor babies
gabe: i am sorry that your parents made you look/act the fool
lindsay: They have websites now that are like YouTube but just for parents to post videos of their kids so only their friends and family see.
lindsay: So, like, basically, I want to hack into one of those websites.

Meet Henry: The Impressive, Yet Slightly Disturbing Dancing Boy

Lindsay Robertson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:51:03 +0000

The tipster who sent this did so with the subject line “annnd….you’re welcome.” Such cockiness is sometimes unmerited, but not this time! Meet Henry, a ginger-haired moppet with what appears to be innate hip-hop dancing skill, which he displays in these three YouTube videos put up, apparently, by his mother. As Henry would say: “Check it out! Check it out! Check it out! Check it out! Check it out! Check it out! Check it out!”:

Dear Banks: Now’s Not The Time To Let David Lynch Make Your Commercials

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:48:25 +0000

This commercial for HSBC aired last night during, appropriately, the CBS Evening News. It makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. NONE:

Who is Henry? Her boyfriend? Her dad? Her brother? Did he use his HSBC atm card to bail her out, is that what the point sort of is? Why is there a bank commercial that takes place in a haunting post-apocalyptic wasteland? I looked it up on YouTube, and apparently this commercial is a very shitty cut up version of this, which also has seemingly nothing to do with banks, but crams in as many creepy-looking people and moments of fear as possible: