This video makes me really proud. I'm so happy to see Rick Mercer in here too! Along with the 1Girl5Gays guys, and some other people I should probably know but don't. But this video is beautiful -- so glad to see it.
I much rather see Mark Tewksberry in this video than how he was marginalized in Jason Kenney's (Minister for Immigration) new "guide" for immigrants. Well done all!
Some of us believe that overproduced, ultra-gay videos mostly featuring rich celebrities and designers are at odds with the It Gets Better project, which did not need improving.
Oh god, are movement "waves" only lasting months now? Does that mean we're on 12th Wave Feminism? The increasing rate of memetic mutation is going to become increasingly problematic for The Academy, especially if we keep trying to use BOOKS, produced through a classical publishing structure. Fuck peer review, I'm going viral!
Anyway, as for on-topic comments:
@14: I don't see why it has to be an either/or proposition. The videos are moderated, so it's not TERRIBLY likely that people are going to start hijacking the space as a means of viral advertising for unrelated commercial crap (other than that implicit in celebrity endorsements, as celebrities implicitly advertise themselves as commodities simply by being seen and heard, and may or may not be unrelated or crap). And YOU seem to be the only one projecting a classification of "better" onto the professionally-produced videos (by saying IGBP didn't need "improving", you're implicitly describing the new wave as an improvement), which may belie feelings of insecurity related to a perceived devaluation of the more "raw" videos. Relax; Dan explicitly pointed out that the first-wave videos aren't going away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Y7qpiu2…
life is short, people.....
We are dumb. We had a chance to elect Smitherman and didn't. I am so mad at us right now.
Anyway, as for on-topic comments:
@14: I don't see why it has to be an either/or proposition. The videos are moderated, so it's not TERRIBLY likely that people are going to start hijacking the space as a means of viral advertising for unrelated commercial crap (other than that implicit in celebrity endorsements, as celebrities implicitly advertise themselves as commodities simply by being seen and heard, and may or may not be unrelated or crap). And YOU seem to be the only one projecting a classification of "better" onto the professionally-produced videos (by saying IGBP didn't need "improving", you're implicitly describing the new wave as an improvement), which may belie feelings of insecurity related to a perceived devaluation of the more "raw" videos. Relax; Dan explicitly pointed out that the first-wave videos aren't going away.