Stop stealing other peoples imagination.
Viral videos; they’re both first and around 50th hand.
From Neck Nomination the to ALS Ice Bucket Challenge; we’ve taken this crap for years. If I had to guess how many people actually gave money to ALS, I’d say around 40% of you poor sodden sods.
(As much as I didn’t grasp the idea (if you were really charitable, you wouldn’t have to get piss-wet-through just to support a cause) the video below, was my favourite ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, by a supposedly famous chap who goes by the name Paul Bissonnette).
Frankly, I’ve had enough of some of the viral videos. Fair enough, some may initially be in support of charities; take the ALS one mentioned above, and maybe the no-makeup challenge from years gone by. The majority however, are now just copycats taking metaphorical dumps over peoples intellectual property.
As swiftly as I got onto the subject of charitable viral videos/challenges, I’m moving on. On to (not so) better things; Facebook videos.
Go down your Facebook news feed nowadays and just about every other post will be a video, shared by one of your ‘friends’ that the initial poster, has probably, chances are, stolen that video from someone else and hasn’t credited them. This doesn’t just annoy me, but it really annoys me. The saying, ‘Possession is nine-tenths of the law’, springs to mind.
The amount of times I ‘hide’ a page from my ‘timeline’ because all it does is most irrelevant rubbish is unforgiving.
Yes video is the most direct advertising format of this generation, but like I’ve said, it doesn’t mean that intellectual integrity should hang in the balance.
Take essay assignments in degrees for an example. I as a student myself know that I have to regurgitate relevant things that someone once said 50 years ago, but, the catch is, I reference it. I credit the person that said the thing.
The hitch with today’s viral video sharing (mainly on Facebook and Instagram) is that the majority of it isn’t credited, it’s just ripped off trash which happens to be popular.
Stay hydrated,