Everyone knows that there are millions of hilarious YouTube videos out there, probably as many as there are YouTube videos featuring cute kids doing cute things. I don’t usually post either on this blog, because all the good ones “go viral” and get seen by everyone anyway. In fact, I’ve only used up my blog-space twice before to do so. (Once with the “Can I Have a Napkin, Please?” bit and the other time with, of course, Jessica’s Manifesto.) But I’m going to do it again with the video below, because it is hands-down the funniest thing I have seen in a long, loooong time. It features 2 minutes of a girl messing about with her webcam’s image-distortion function. What’s so hilarious about that, you ask? Well, quite simply, the fact that SHE thinks it’s hilarious. I’ve watched this a dozen times now and I am crying with laughter along with her by the end every time. Just proves the old adage, I guess: Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
By the way, if you’re interested in seeing what she (really) looked like while she was doing this, here’s a link to a split-screen video of her doing the same thing (with one side un-distorted).
I laughed, but it also felt pretty uncanny.
@AnPan: Haha. Dude, I almost said the same thing… except that I'm trying to cultivate a censor on my "uncanny valley" outbursts.
Heh. So this was an enthymematic "uncanny" post.
a student of mine is writing a paper on laughter for another class, so I sent her your blog, and she sent me back this YouTube clip, which I think you'll enjoy a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32OC97aNqc