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By Kristelle Joy
Festin and Katherine Mae Lopez, Special to The Times
They are viral—so contagiously funny, embarrassing or outrageous
that you just have to share them with others and spread the word.
Filipinos are gaining both fame and notoriety on the Internet with
video postings on the YouTube.com. In the process we are showing the
world both our wit and our embarrassment.
Dance floor behind bars
Like ants in a perfectly aligned rows and
columns, more than a 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention
and Rehabilitation Center reenact Michael Jackson’s Thriller music
video with a gay inmate playing the role of Whacko Jacko’s date.
And they’re all actually quite good at it. With more than
14,000,000 views, Time Magazine ranked it fifth in the “Top Ten
Most Popular Viral Videos.” Byron Gracia, security consultant for
the local government, documented the video.
“My family… oh my God!”
Beauty and brain are two different things.
Janina San Miguel was crowned the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas-World
despite this answer:
Beauty contest judge Vivienne Tan: The question
is, what role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining
Pilinas?
Song from a mother’s heart
Madonna Decena, a 32-year-old single mother who
went to the United Kingdom to work, wows the audience and the judges
of the talent search Britain’s Got Talent. Her rendition of the
song “I Will Always Love You” not only earned her a standing
ovation from the audience, a firm yes from the judges, and more than
200,000 views in YouTube, but it also spoke of her great love for
her two daughters in the Philippines.
What doctors should not be
A disturbing violation of privacy, the Cebu
Doctors scandal video has garnered more than 500,000 views and
counting. The three-minute scandal video shows how a canister can
was pulled out from a male rectum during a medical operation. As if
in a party, doctors and medical staff took pictures with camera
phones. There were also loud cheers and one shouted “Baby Out!”
while the medical practice was going on. No wonder one might have a
second thought on entering hospitals.
Keys Me
Who doesn’t know Alyssa Alano? Her famous
rendition transformed Sixpence None the Richer’s hit song “Kiss
Me” into “Keys Me.”
Rising Diva
Over one million Internet surfers around the
globe have seen this YouTube video showing Charice Pempengco being a
guest in the American show Ellen DeGeneres. Truly a source of
Filipino pride, in the video, the 15-year-old young singer receives
a standing ovation from the Ellen DeGeneres audience after singing
“And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” and “I Will Always Love
You.”
The Super in heroes
Maritess versus the Superfriends is web designer
Dino Ignacio’s LOL [laugh-out-loud] 2002 short animation feature
on the life of a Filipino domestic helper working for the Justice
League of America. She postulates on the possibly gay relationship
between Batman and Robin, how hard it is for Wonder Woman to find
where she parked her invisible jet plane and how Aquaman—a hero
mostly useless except for underwater battles—hates it every time
she cooks fish.
“Bords”
In this series of YouTube spoof, the movie 300
is dubbed in Ilonggo. The original plot is twisted, and the
characters talk about texting, haircut, and other things that are
familiar to the Filipino audience. With the different videos
garnering 100,000 to one million views, they are a must-see for
anyone who wishes to have a good laugh.
Reporting ‘round the bush
You turn on the television for some serious
news, but you soon find yourself laughing on your couch because of
how Michael Fajatin screwed up his reportage of a prayer march in
Manila. Or maybe you just raise one of your eyebrows and say,
“what is this guy talking about?” Whether or not his report made
sense to the viewers, this video on YouTube.com gave over 90,000
YouTube viewers 33 seconds of humor at Fajatin’s expense.
‘Papaya’ is not just a fruit
Bend your back and point your fingers. It’s
papaya time. With more than 500 versions of papaya dance video
uploaded in the net including Edu Manzano’s very own, the
‘Papaya Song’ has definitely conquered the world. Good Morning
America hosts Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson were among the ones
who got hooked by the fruity juicy dance craze.
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