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Monday, February 18, 2008 --- 158 days ago http://parody.videosift.com/talk/Creepy-redhead-dating-video-a-HOAX
| (4 comments - 118 views) The creepy red head was a fake and I'm not talking about our favorite McDonald ginger kid. About a year ago, we made a fake online dating profile of the character “Sam” to promote Perfect Profile, a short 16mm film I made a while ago. I wanted to try an experiment to see whether an absurd and eerily-strange video could get traction on the web. Dennis Hurley (a talented actor I worked with on Perfect Profile and also making a guest appearance in The Hayley Project) and I created an online dating video where his character Sam told the world that he was looking for a petite redheaded girl who matched the description of an old ex-girlfriend he had lost. The purpose of this promotional video was to drive people to www.myspace.com/perfectprofile, where they would get more information on Sam, and watch our short film Perfect Profile. So we dropped this promotional video on YouTube and watched as a few people stumbled upon it and reacted. But we never really got many hits from it. Fast forward a year or so, and this promotional video gets picked up by Esquire as one of the worst dating videos of all time What is interesting is the wonderful Sifters caught this video when it was first posted a year and a half ago. It does appear that ayp7 was a hit-n-run poster who was basically a viral marketer. So there is your lesson kiddies: - Don't trust the internets - Most of the submissions are self-links ... |
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