Responding to My Favorite YouTube Comments

Pro Tip: If you post a video on the Internet, don’t read the comments.

Yesterday, my creative agency (Aberro Creative) spent the afternoon improvising a quick parody of the ”First Kiss” YouTube video that’s gone viral this week.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-04WDzJd2og

We wrangled together a few friends on short notice, put them in front of a camera, and sort of shouted ideas until they did something funny. It was a good time. We stayed after normal work hours to edit the video and get it online.

We released the video yesterday and it’s already accrued more than 40,000 views. People seem to like it.

Well. Some people seem to like it.

If you’d permit me an indulgence, I’d like to respond to a handful of my personal favorite comments from YouTube and Reddit.

These people are “actors” in the same way that Michael Richards is a “stand-up comedian”.

In other words, they tried. But it wasn’t for them.

But we appreciate the kind words, StarStruckFilms101. Maybe one day we can live up to your lofty praise. Until then, we’re just a group of random people who wanted an excuse to not look at any more spreadsheets for the rest of the day.

Niiiiice one. I think a re-branding is in order.

CHOO CHOO!! You’ve figured it out, Fuck You. We thought we could pull the wool over your eyes, but no way. Not Fuck You.

Tell me, how did you figure it out? Did you go on our website, which has pictures of a bunch of people in the video because they are employees? Or maybe it was this blog post that gives it away. Perhaps you even hacked into our public Facebook page, which includes likes and comments from pretty much every person in the video.

So ride that fake train, Fuck You. You’ve earned it.