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Chewbacca Mask Lady
Chewbacca Mask Lady (also known as Chewbacca Mom) is a viral video featuring 37-year-old Texan mother Candace Payne filming herself heartily laughing while wearing a '' Star Wars'' Chewbacca mask. The video was posted to Facebook with the description "It's the simple joys in life...." on May 19, 2016. Reaction The video became so popular that ''Forbes'' reported that the mask sold out from every online retailer. In response to the video, Kohl's, where the mask was purchased, rewarded Payne with about $2,500 in gift cards, ''Star Wars'' toys and 10,000 reward points. On May 23, 2016, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield wore the masks on '' This Morning''. On the same day, Payne was featured on '' Good Morning America''. On the show, Hasbro rewarded her with more ''Star Wars'' toys. Later that day, The Gregory Brothers uploaded an autotuned remix of the video. Payne was later featured on ''The Late Late Show with James Corden'' with J. J. Abrams. She was also featured on "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viral Video
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.Lu Jiang, Yajie Miao, Yi Yang, ZhenZhong Lan, Alexander Hauptmann. Viral Video Style: A Closer Look at Viral Videos on YouTube. Retrieved 30 March 2016. Paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lujiang/camera_ready_papers/ICMR2014-Viral.pdf Slides: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lujiang/resources/ViralVideos.pdf For a video to be shareable or spreadable, it must focus on the social logics and cultural practices that have enabled and popularized these new platforms, logics that explain why sharing has become such common practice, not just how. Viral videos may be serious, and some are deeply emotional, but many more are centered on entertainment and humorous content. They may include televised comedy sketches, such as '' The Lonely Island''s " Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", '' Numa Numa'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
