JibJab

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JibJab.com is an English-language website that the JibJab Media Inc. operates. Political satirical flash comics are published on it. The site is run by the Americans Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, who call themselves JibJab Brothers , when they perform together, Grevan Spiridellis .

Finances

The JibJab pages are now very advertising-heavy - so an advertising film must be viewed before each film, and there are several advertising banners and pop-ups .

After the release of This Land , JibJab had to enter into a partnership with AtomShockwave because the servers could no longer cope with the traffic (AtomShockwave's servers recorded approx. 17 million unique visitors in the month of publication instead of 3 million previously). JibJab signed a deal with Yahoo in late 2004 that the next two clips would be exclusive to Yahoo! MSN now acts as the host for the videos.

The clips can also be downloaded for a fee of $ 1.99 , and there is also an online shop for merchandising items.

Cartoons

JibJab started in 1999 and showed political and everyday comics. Among other things, it was about Arnold Schwarzenegger's election campaign in 2003 and the US presidential election in 2000 . In the Flash animations, photos of the heads of the politicians are mounted on comic figures, the chin moves towards the words.

The brothers also produce Flash cartoons as advertising for Kraft Foods , Budweiser and Sony . The website received worldwide attention for the first time in 2004 with the video This Land .

This country

This Land was the brothers' first cartoon for the 2004 US presidential election . The music comes from the song This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie . In the video, George W. Bush and John Kerry throw each other on their character weaknesses: Bush is portrayed as a crusader , wild cowboy and anything but intellectual, while Kerry is an intellectual and three times the Purple Heart (a medal for bravery for Wounds in action) is presented by Bush as a "liberal sausage" and an overly moderate politician. Both characters sing in the chorus: This Land will surely vote for me! As in many of the later clips, Bill Clinton is hit by Hillary for hooking up with younger women.

The video was the big breakthrough, with the website ranked number one on Alexa's Movers and Shakers list shortly after it was published. Was shown This Land among others, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight . On July 26, 2004, the Spiridellis brothers appeared on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show .

Due to the popularity, there was a threat of lawsuit from The Richmond Organization , which holds the rights to Guthrie's works. However, after evidence emerged that the music had gone into the public domain in 1973 , the parties agreed that JibJab donated 20% of their net income to the Woody Guthrie Foundation .

Ahnuld for Governor

This 2004 clip is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger's assumption of governor of California as successor to Gray Davis in late 2003. His political plans and election promises are underlined with allusions to his film career, including the films Terminator , Kindergarten Cop , Phantom Command , Total Recall and Conan the Barbarian . This point in Schwarzenegger's career is also addressed in other JibJab clips like This Land and the 2009 Year in Review.

Good to be in DC

Also released before the 2004 election, the work has been played again on many television networks, including The Tonight Show . The melody comes from the song Dixie .

JibJab alludes to the funding of the election campaign ( Dick Cheney and Halliburton as well as John Kerry and HJ Heinz Company ). In addition, Kerry and his vice-presidential candidate John Edwards are portrayed as a gay couple. This comes with an invitation to citizens to actively participate in the election.

Second term

Second Term is set at the time of George Bush's swearing-in for his second term in January 2005. The clip premiered on the Tonight Show . To the tune of She'll Be Comin '' 'Round the Mountain , Bush recounts his plans ("stabilize" Iraq, abolish taxes - but only on the wealthy - and make a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages) while critics reverberate express unanimously and in all moods from disbelief to dissatisfied.

The Drugs I Need

This clip ("The Drugs I Need") is a satire produced by the American Consumers Union as part of a campaign aimed at getting drug manufacturers to fully list the possible side effects of their products. She deals with a supposed miracle drug called Progenitorivox, whose numerous disadvantages and excessive costs speak completely against its (practically nonexistent) advantages.

Big Box Mart

Big Box Mart is a clip with no direct reference to political issues. The clip satirizes the average American man who buys as cheaply as possible in the Big Box Mart supermarket . Due to the resulting pressure on prices, the industrial jobs are being outsourced to other countries, which means that the "main actor" will also lose his job and from now on take on a cleaning job in the Big Box Mart. This clip can be understood as a direct criticism of the price dumping of the large American supermarket chains; the name suggests a proximity to Wal-Mart .

The video premiered on October 13, 2005, again on Jay Leno's show. The melody is from the song Oh! Susanna , photos from over 1000 JibJab fans were used for the characters in the video.

2-0-5

2-0-5 premiered on December 15, 2005 on The Tonight Show . It is based on Turkey in the Straw and Auld Lang Syne . In it, George Bush looks back on the past year, in which his popularity fell sharply due to various scandals such as Karl Rove , Scooter Libby and Tom DeLay ; he claims how difficult it is for him to rule the free world because of this, and hopes for a better 2006 under his administration.

Nuckin 'Futs!

Nuckin 'Futs! premiered on December 13, 2006 by default on the Tonight Show . In the form of a school performance by children and the melody of Jingle Bells , the makers of JibJab review the year. These include events such as the acquisition of YouTube by Google , the stroke of ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the nuclear test of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il .

Shawshank in a minute

Released in 2006, this film is JibJab's first live-action production, with the participation of Erik Weiner , Jordan Allen-Dutton and John Landis , who directed the clip. This is one of Raprhythmus under painted parody of the film The Shawshank Redemption ( The Shawshank Redemption ) and summarizes the action in just four minutes fully assembled.

What We Call the News

'What We Call the News' premiered on March 28, 2007 on The Tonight Show . The film criticizes the excessive exaggeration of trivialities and the drifting into gossip of today's American news magazines with the melody of The Battle Hymn of the Republic .

Do I Creep You Out

This song (title literally: "I make you afraid") is a music animated film in collaboration with the parodist Weird Al Yankovic , who satirizes the song Do I Make You Proud ("I make you proud") by Taylor Hicks . The clip premiered on November 15, 2007 and tells of the attempts of a stalker (Yankovic) to win over the object of his desire, a young woman named Debbie.

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