Charlie Bit My Finger - Again!

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Charlie Bit My Finger - Again! is a 56 second web video showing one year old Charlie biting the finger of his three year old brother Harry. The older brother said repeatedly: "Charlie bit me" ( Charlie bit me ). The father of the English brothers, Howard Davies-Carr, uploaded the video to the internet video platform YouTube in May 2007 . At times it was the most viewed video there. By May 2014, the video had been played over 800 million times. The parodies and clones were also viewed frequently. For example, a parody of two teenagers who re-enacted the video and used the original soundtrack even achieved over 15 million clicks.

The video is an example of how web videos can inadvertently gain a lot of media attention and viral spread. The video is profane. Nonetheless, it brought media attention to the English family. In addition to various English-language media such as The Wall Street Journal , the Daily Mail , Time Magazine and the Daily Telegraph , German media such as Der Spiegel and Stern or RTL also reported on the video. For the Davies-Carr family, the video not only brought media coverage, which they also gave interviews, but also a financial income from a share in YouTube's advertising revenue. With that they financed a house.

literature

  • Geoffrey V. Carter Sarah J. Arroyo: Video and Participatory Cultures: Writing, Rhetoric, Performance, and the Tube

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr: Web gets taste for biting baby by Maurice Chittenden, The Sunday Times , November 1, 2009
  2. ↑ Charlie Bit My Finger - Again! on Youtube
  3. ↑ Charlie Bit Me Remake on YouTube
  4. ↑ Spiegel Online : Web video trends: Commerce kicks cult and children , November 1, 2009
  5. ↑ Spiegel Online : Popular Internet Videos: The 100 Million Clicks Club , May 11, 2009
  6. ^ A b Wall Street Journal : Earning Cash With YouTube Videos , June 18, 2010
  7. ↑ Daily Mail : Home video of toddler biting big brother's fingers becomes latest YouTube sensation - with 65 million views , December 5, 2008
  8. ↑ Time Magazine : YouTube's 50 Best Videos , March 29, 2010
  9. ^ Daily Telegraph : Finger-biting brothers become YouTube hit , December 5, 2008