this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure one of the first "viral videos". He was bullied mercilessly, if he would have made as big of a video like 5 years later he probably would have been famous (not infamous) instead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If he made it today he’d get buried in /new. The internet was a different place back then, we talked about the same funny video for months.