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Torontoite Wins YouTube Award for Inanity

Posted by Ryan C / April 4, 2007

The future of the internet is NOWWell, it might as well be for inanity. Toronto's own TheWineKone won the 2006 award for "Best Commentary" with his video "Hotness Prevails/Worst Video Ever". The video runs long at over 8 minutes and features TheWineKone topless the whole time, while he rants about seemingly random crap throughout.

This hasn't deterred people from watching the video over 2.25 million times and leaving over 6600 comments. I still can't figure out wtf this "commentary" is about, and I'm left with the feeling that YouTube is FUBAR. I just don't get it. Maybe you do? The infamous video and more lie after the jump.

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Now, you have to watch the whole thing before you are allowed to form an opinion. I did, so here's mine; the "Ask a Ninja" series, fittingly enough the winner of YoutTube's "Best Series", is more my style. The reason there's no "Ask a Pirate" series worth mentioning is because no one cares wtf a pirate has to say. TheWineKone is neither a Ninja nor pirate ("Ninja" should always be capitalized, lest you anger them), so I'm not really sure what his appeal is. If he's an undercover Ninja on the side, though, it might explain the appeal...

Incidentally he also has a MySpace page, and his only friend is Tom. I tried to contact TheWineKone for an interview last week both through his YouTube and MySpace pages, but I suppose he's too busy perfecting his Adam Sandler voice. Regardless of my opinions, kudos to TheWineKone for winning an award on one of the world's most visited office time-killer sites.

Discussion

3 Comments

rogeroger2000 / April 4, 2007 at 01:33 pm
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After watching that video, it's clear WineKone is his own number one fan. 'What am I doing? I'm saying random things as they occur to me in front of a video camera. I must be crazy!' I suspect he voted for himself over & over.

I liked the comments about emo kids though. It could have been edited down to just that.

The general pool of this first year's YouTube voters make the Academy Award members look like the Nobel committee.
Sam / April 4, 2007 at 03:09 pm
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I don't get the appeal at all. I couldn't understand how this won an award among the thousands of youtube clips.
Stupid / April 5, 2007 at 03:43 pm
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That is not remotely funny... it just reminds me of idiots I have known who think they are way funny and just end up annoying people. Get a life.

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