2 posts and columns on Dancing Baby

Viral Videos: Something Old, Something New–But Still, Dancing Babies

in News on August 13, 2009 at 3:05 am PT

Here’s a new video that has been making the rounds recently featuring “Roller Babies,” which is essentially a computer-generated bunch of babies on skates doing a rap number. It’s a commercial for Evian Water, but BoomTown laughs every time I look at it anyway–probably because it reminds me of the most famous of all viral videos on the Internet: The Dancing Baby of 1997.
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Hollywood Lies Again! Also Just In: Birds Fly, Fish Swim.

in News on September 6, 2007 at 4:33 am PT

Have we learned nothing from the sham that is LonelyGirl15 on MySpace? If not, don’t miss this story in The Wall Street Journal today about a 24-year-old guitar-strumming singer named Marié Digby, whose fans on YouTube thought her an authentic, bubble-up amateur. Uh-oh, she has turned out to be more of a creation of a [...]