I admit it, I’m old and therefore frightened by the things that you young people do. But even the cutting-edge-ing-est, Richard Grieco-est among you have a lot of explaining to do in re this, a video that has been viewed by you striplings some 2 million times.
Explain, please? Loudly, for us old guys?
60 responses so far ↓
1 The Dave on Feb 3, 2008 at 10:55 pm
If you imagine “Africa” by Toto playing in the background, it makes perfect sense.
2 Chris on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:04 pm
It’s as though she’s self-conscious about the fact that her webcam is watching her. She tries to go about her computing tasks but can’t escape the ever watchful eye perched atop her monitor.
This is like watching bad, silent anime…except it’s live action and there are less demons.
3 MSTJedi on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Okay, yeah . . .
Maybe at 30 I’m past the age of knowing what the hell that was about, either.
4 Brad on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I agree with Chris–it’s got something to do with anime…. What, exactly, I cannot fathom, though. I guess I’m young enough to get some of the point, but not enough for a full explanation.
5 Brad on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I’m 30, btw…go figure…
6 Patrick on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I’ll never understand those crazy kids, what with their socks below their ankles, their Alfred Schnittkes and Vitamin Waters and what not.
7 Robyn on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Oh my God, I…I think she’s…listening.
No, really! Watch it again, but this time imagine telling her about your day or something. SHE’S LISTENING. Look at those eyes, those eyes can see through space and time. You know why you feel uncomfortable when you watch that video? Because she can SEE YOU.
Okay, I need to stop watching this thing, I’m freaking myself out now.
(But just in case, I think this blog needs some Holy Water ASAP.)
8 NotMerrittStone on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I was expecting her to jump-cut-crawl out of my screen and eat my soul while her little brother with no eyes stood in the corner screaming like a cat.
9 Tim on Feb 4, 2008 at 2:11 am
Eyes aren’t supposed to be that large. Unless she’s part lemur.
10 Sheriff Bart on Feb 4, 2008 at 2:39 am
“This is like watching bad, silent anime…except it’s live action and there are less demons.”
And less demon penises… or is that peni? Someone help me out with this.
11 Beautiful Mind on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:25 am
Can we confirm the lack of demon/demon genitals? ‘Cause it might explain a lot.
12 John H. on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:37 am
I dunno, maybe it’s irony? Like, “Hey, if you thought something was going to happen, IT’S NOT! V for victory, I just wasted your time!”
If we could get a translation of that Japanese at the end it might help explain it.
13 chibiyuri on Feb 4, 2008 at 4:42 am
It says Arigatou ^_^
14 Tork_110 on Feb 4, 2008 at 5:00 am
I think it’s just kawaii.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
15 La De Da on Feb 4, 2008 at 5:07 am
She could be a high school student and there’s 2 million over worked, salary men ogling her.
16 Ninjew on Feb 4, 2008 at 6:12 am
Perhaps you’re just not receiving the telepathic message she was sending.
Came across loud and clear to me.
It all makes sense now…everything is crystal clear.
I know know what I have to do. What we all MUST do…
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
17 Casey on Feb 4, 2008 at 6:15 am
She has obviously been studying cute projection techniques. And since there have been 2 million hits then apparently she is coming along well.
People underestimate how practical such skills really are.
18 Mystok on Feb 4, 2008 at 7:34 am
I have to admit she is cute.. kinda like those poor rabbits that are about to get slaughtered for hausenpheffer. Her name seems to be Magi which would explain how you can use magic to mesmerize people into….
Must watch more Magi…. Must destroy all humans… Must find large vat of cold grease and swim in it….
19 Ninjew on Feb 4, 2008 at 8:23 am
Yes….
You received the same message….
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
MUST VOTE FOR HILLARY……
20 Fran in the Pan on Feb 4, 2008 at 8:49 am
She was clearly in a contest to see how long she could hold a live cricket in her mouth without swallowing it. This is the newest way for youth to prove their concentration and endurance to the rest of the world. It’s known as kuriketto kuchisaki haji. She is clearly a KKH master.
You guys never heard of it?
21 Edgewriter on Feb 4, 2008 at 9:42 am
She was sharing with us the moment of her conversion to scientology.
22 Michael on Feb 4, 2008 at 10:24 am
I’m just wondering how Mike found this?
23 Adam on Feb 4, 2008 at 10:30 am
I’m at work and watched this with the sound off. Please tell me that there’s some sort of audio accompaniment that explains what it is I just saw.
I mean, I can stare at stuff too, guys. And I thought I stared at stuff pretty well. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, though, because I can’t see where 2 million people would want to watch me do it.
24 Jef on Feb 4, 2008 at 10:43 am
Uh… maybe it’s just me, but staring wide-eyed like a deer into a camera for thirty seconds is just NOT something you post on YouTube!!! She may be cute, but imagine for a moment that at second 31, two fingers soar into the shot, jabbing her in her eyes! Mean? Sure. But at least then we’d know why it was posted.
25 Hugh on Feb 4, 2008 at 11:12 am
I saw this a little while ago. Apprarently she just makes videos of herself staring at the camera silently. I actually find it kind of hypnotic and an interesting piece of (admittedly YouTube-based) performance art sort of thing. Or something. It’s amusing, it’s cute, it’s Asian…
But then, I’m an artsy-fartsy quasi-hipster shit, so what do I know?
26 Courtney on Feb 4, 2008 at 11:25 am
I feel like she maybe thought a web cam would take a photo of her and she was waiting for the flash and the flash never happened so she just kept staring and then when all was said and done she decided to post her minute long picture on the YouTubes.
Or maybe she just devoured my soul with her eyes. I think that’s probably it.
27 SaucyRossy on Feb 4, 2008 at 11:30 am
Mike you lost a staring contest to a little anime girl.
28 Andrew on Feb 4, 2008 at 11:42 am
I like it very much.
29 Darth Chimay on Feb 4, 2008 at 11:50 am
Mike, Mike, Mike… I’m over 30 and even I can plainly see what it is.
Don’t you know a dumbshow re-enactment of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial when you see one? It’s so obvious that she is playing our little scamp of an alien, especially when she makes the “phone home” sign at the end.
30 R.A. Roth on Feb 4, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Isn’t it obvious? This video has no context, no dialogue, and lasts 31 seconds. This is the future of entertainment unfolding before our clueless old guy eyes.
Randy
31 Walter on Feb 4, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Yea, I was more transfixed than confused. Then after I was angry I watched it.
32 Yanni on Feb 4, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Well, obviously this video makes no sense, and we humans are fascinated with enigmas, so we started watching it in an attempt to figure out some meaning. This causes the viewer count to increase, thus increasing the enigma and viewer count and so on. It’s a perpetual cycle.
Personally, I believe it is pro-WGA position piece.
33 MikeP on Feb 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm
1 Girl, No Sound.
34 Daddy-O on Feb 4, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I watched them all. She talks in a couple of them and actually starts into a french bread pizza. Plus, if you watch her eyes, she’s blinking out the Da Vinci code in each one.
35 Christopher on Feb 4, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I simply can’t put it better than NotMerrittStone did on Feb 3, 2008 at 11:55 pm:
I was expecting her to jump-cut-crawl out of my screen and eat my soul while her little brother with no eyes stood in the corner screaming like a cat.
36 Neb on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that this little girl of, what?, maybe 10 years?…11? …has dragon lady fingernails?
The staring “kawaii”-ness is irritating enough, but, ewwww….
37 Katie M. on Feb 4, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Looked like she was desperately trying to contain a huge belch, if not vomit.
Or MAYBE it’s a some sort of statement about the de-evolution of entertainment….Remember the good old days before TV and video games when we would all just sit around and stare at each other? I think that is the only place left for us to go at this point, and she is just illustrating that. Ah, the circle of life!
38 Eddie Colton on Feb 4, 2008 at 5:13 pm
It’s Katie Holmes. She’s trying to look innocent while silently signaling “PLEASE HELP ME!” as Tom Cruise looks on, making sure she is seen and never heard, like all Scientologist women.
Honestly? I think it’s a rejected ad like the ones they show on MySpace that show hot girls typing and laughing at something on the screen that they supposedly just read, making you want to go to that site and watch them typing and laughing at something on the screen that they supposedly just read, in the hopes that the something they just read is something you just typed, only this one came out a little too creepy.
39 Botchinator on Feb 4, 2008 at 5:23 pm
This is obviously an audition for Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie Part Deux”
40 Finchstalker on Feb 4, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Her profile says she’s 21, which may or may not be true.
Not to be a perv or anything, but her chest size (visible in other videos) indicates she’s probably at least older than 10 or 11.
41 Bob on Feb 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Maybe it’s pedophile-bait?
42 Neb on Feb 4, 2008 at 7:02 pm
If she’s 21 then I seriously need my eyes checked. No matter what, girlie obviously thinks a lot of herself…
43 Renee on Feb 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I’m closing in fast on 40 so I don’t get it either. But do you think invoking the name of Richard Grieco will help with the youngsters? Depp, maybe. Then again, I dunno. Has Booker gone on to other things of which I’m unaware?
44 Inspector Dim on Feb 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I was just waiting for her to yuke all over herself.
45 QuackersnCheese on Feb 5, 2008 at 7:56 am
Well I’m 30 and Friday the 8th is my birthday and so I guess I’m actually 31 sorta… hmmm… anyway this is freakin weird. How old is this girl, and more importantly what is she on? Personally I think she got on cam to show the world that girls do fart but once faced with this daunting task and realizing she was camera shy she merely choked.
46 Rufus T. on Feb 5, 2008 at 8:14 am
“Can we help you youtube lady? Do you need a push or something?”
47 Virginia Corbett on Feb 5, 2008 at 10:01 am
It’s meaning may beyond all of us, and it’s a little creepy if you ask me, but at least she cleaned her room and made her bed.
48 MonkeyCheezPants on Feb 5, 2008 at 11:05 am
It’s obvious after watching more of these… she is a masterful Dadaist artist. With a deep understanding of Zen.
Damn you, Mike! I seriously just spent 20 minutes watching these. And I’m now in love with her.
49 MonkeyCheezPants on Feb 5, 2008 at 11:06 am
Penises is the correct plural. However, most people are unaware of the correct “flock” word for a group of penises. It is a clutch of penises.
50 Kei on Feb 5, 2008 at 11:15 am
NO, DON’T GO TO THE DARK SIDE.
51 Kei on Feb 5, 2008 at 11:26 am
Well, clearly there is a cut-off age. I’m 20, and this made absolute sense to me. I would try to explain it to you guys, but your heads may explode.
52 Tim on Feb 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm
The fact that you knew that made me weep.
Not from laughing so hard, but genuinely out of sadness.
53 Mike on Feb 5, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I think it’s a… I mean, I could possibly see it as, like a… kind of… well… she sure is a cutie.
54 Phil on Feb 5, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Ummm….I don’t get it….
55 Phil on Feb 5, 2008 at 5:49 pm
ummmm dude…she looks like she is only 15…..lol
56 WaffleTron on Feb 6, 2008 at 9:22 am
We have the cut off age then! I’m 21, and had no clue what the hell was going on. Kei, of course being 20, understood it thoroughly.
Scientists. Get on this…
57 Conor Lastowka on Feb 6, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Which is more than the no good Pruane2Forever can say…
58 Alicia on Feb 6, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I’m 21, and I can offer no explanation.
Sorry, Mike.
59 High Off Pixels on Feb 6, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I think a quick wiki search for もえ(”Moe” – pronounced Mo-eh, not like our beloved bowl-cutted Stooge) will elucidate this large eyed silence.
I’m 26, but my useless research degree in popular culture has a minor advantage here.
60 Chaos on Feb 9, 2008 at 4:04 pm
She’s doing an impression of the girl from Moetan II:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25E8%2590%258C%25E5%2596%25AE&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2525E8%252590%25258C%2525E5%252596%2525AE%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8