I don’t spend very much time on YouTube. Sometimes, my nephews get me to look at funny videos, but that’s for their amusement more than mine. However, I started playing around with it the other night and quickly realized why I have avoided it. YouTube is like following Alice down the rabbit hole. It’s like Hotel California where you can check out but never leave. Each video takes you into a maze of other ones until you can’t remember how it all began.
After several hours, I escaped when my iPad began to run out of battery. I tried to sleep, but the videos replayed through my mind. That’s when I had a blogging idea. I would search the first thing that came to my mind then choose the seventh video on the list. When that video was over, I would choose the seventh video in the list of videos that pop up on the side and see where this YouTubing adventure would take me.
So, here we go. Oh, I know this would be a better experiment if Surrounded by Imbeciles had video capability. Other cool blogs have it, but this site really isn’t that cool.
Ok, the first thing that pops into my mind – The Eagles. I guess the Hotel California thing inspired me. The seventh video is….Hotel California with lyrics. Shocking, I know. What are “colitas” anyway?
Now, on with the show. The seventh sidebar video is Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger with lyrics. There are no images of Rocky, Apollo or Clubber. It’s just a black screen with white letters.
Going from tough guys to a not so tough guy, we have Michael Jackson and Beat It with lyrics. I’ve always wondered what he was beating exactly.
Caught in a Michael Jackson loop, we get the disco era version and Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough. Man, the lyrics really take on a different meaning when you read them.
From here, we go to Hopsin and something called Ill Mind of Hopsin 5. He’s a rapper, and he’s pretty good.
Alright, up pops one of my favorites, Eminem. Except, he isn’t rapping. It’s a comedy skit called Eminem Goes Back to High School.
The next video is pretty funny. It’s called White Boy Drops Sick Beat. You have to watch this one.
From here, we get Top 10 Worst Infomercials. I didn’t watch it all, but it starts by showing the advantages of having a Tiddy Bear. Watch, and you will see.
I’ll be honest. I don’t think I can top the Tiddy Bear, so I will just stop there. To recap, we went from Hotel California to Eye of the Tiger to Beat It to Don’t Stop Till you Get Enough to Hopsin to a scholastic Eminem to a white kid beatbox to the Tiddy Bear. Was the YouTubing experiment a success? I don’t know, but it ran my battery down again.
I can teach you how to add videos if you want. I’ll make you a video and DM you or something. 😉
Ok. That’ll be cool. I need to put some ecclectic stuff on here like sj and other cool bloggers.
AWWW.
I love this! It kind of reminds me of ” Six Degrees of (Kevin) Bacon. I can actually imagine something called “Six Degrees of Tiddy Bear”, although the film that will inevitably follow the phenomena of this game will certainly not star Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, or Will Smith (Yes. I know that “Six Degrees of Separation” predates the similarly named game, but would it kill you to play along?). LOL!
Ha. That’s great. I never thought I would start out with Hotel California and end up with a little bear smothering in a woman’s cleavage. See what the Internet has done to civilization.
I like that tiddy bear! I would order one but I might end up with another Hotel California album.
Some people used to think that Hotel California was about devil worship. I can find no better proof than its connection to an over-sexed toy bear.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of those. I’ll definitely have to check out the infomercials.
I have to be careful though, seriously. I am very easily distracted (VERY EASILY), and because I am self-employed, this is a very serious weakness if not kept in check. I have to be rather regimented with my “free” internet use.
The infomercials were awesome. I can’t believe those are real products. Buy some a let me know how they work.