I just read about this in WIRED, in an article by Clive Thompson (who wrote about Townsend Brown and the lifters a few years ago).
So this YouTube magician who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and does 'anti-gravity' tricks with playing cards does a short video (seen at the end of this clip) that generates like THOUSANDS of video responses, making this the most-video-responded clip on YouTube. And the resulting compilation is really quite compelling. See for yourself:








seeing as that dr. michael wesch highlights this in his presentation to the library of congress & has his digital ethnography class observing and interacting with the youtube culture, i'd take his word over any as anthropology observations go.
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=179
Posted by: Gavin Richardson | January 06, 2009 at 12:15 AM