Farked

On 7/20/2006, In Cool, Internet, fark, youtube, By Will

Yes­ter­day was an excit­ing day. One of my project sites, The Best of Youtube, got Farked by the pop­u­lar news site Fark.com. Some­one posted a link to my recent Star Wars on a Banjo video.

By the end of the day, I received over 32,000 vis­its to my site, which with­eld the onslaught of traf­fic with grace (thank you, Dreamhost).

For a while, I was fea­tured at Youtube on the “Most Viewed Today” page, ris­ing to the 35th spot, and my video received an “honor” for this sta­tus. Strangely, my video sud­denly van­ished from this list­ing though, and the “honor” van­ished, which I have yet to fig­ure out.

The sec­ond com­ment on the post­ing at Fark.com was from none other than Drew Cur­tis, the cre­ator and owner of Fark.com:

“This video pretty much sums up the entire Internet“

The rest of the feed­back I received, through com­ments on fark.com, youtube.com, and thebestofyoutube.com, were mostly pos­i­tive and funny. A few peo­ple didn’t seem to be able to hear the melody in the banjo pick­ing, which is dif­fi­cult some­times for an untrained blue­grass ear.

I’ll be eagerly watch­ing this over the next few days to see how much traf­fic I con­tinue to get.

 
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  1. chris says:
    7/20/2006 at 1:46 pm

    “This video pretty much sums up the entire Inter­net”
    What do you recon that guy meant? Per­haps he meant “This video pretty much sums up the shared global com­put­ing net­work. A net­work based on stan­dards includ­ing Inter­net Pro­to­col (IP), Sim­ple Mail Trans­fer Pro­to­col (SMTP) and the Domain Name Sys­tem (DNS), which enables global com­mu­ni­ca­tions between all con­nected com­put­ing devices. It pro­vides the plat­form for web ser­vices and the World­Wide Web”. Or per­haps he meant, “This video pretty much sums up the entire inter­net, click here for a dis­ap­point­ing tease?”

  2. Smytty says:
    7/20/2006 at 3:15 pm

    i think that if you are famil­iar with fark, drew was prob­a­bly com­ment­ing on the strange con­ver­gence of obscure tal­ent and odd mate­r­ial that peo­ple find com­pelling on the internet.

    com­pelling to the tune to 35,000 hits, or whatever.

    point being, before the inter­net, there was no sim­i­lar venue.

  3. Butch says:
    8/1/2006 at 8:52 pm

    Hey man. I saw your video on youtube and loved it so much I linked it from my own blog here: http://butchbailey.com/?p=224 I loved it and thanks for the fun. Looks like I was a bit off on my assess­ment of you, but rest assured you would have fit in per­fectly with the guys I ran with grad school.

  4. Will says:
    8/2/2006 at 12:48 am

    Hey Butch, thanks for stop­ping by. Glad you liked the video — it’s been more pop­u­lar than I would have ever guessed. And I agree with your ass­es­ment of Darth Maul prevailing.

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