Weirdest kids book in the world

Inspiration for videos comes from the weirdest places. Browsing through the iTunes store I saw what looked like a cute kid’s book. It was free so I thought what the heck, I’ll download it.

It turned out to have a few unexpected quirks. Machine translation tends to give some pretty weird results. At least, I hope it was machine translation. I’d hate to think someone translated it this way on purpose.

Quite a few viewers called this one of the funniest things I’ve done which is always nice to hear. Not least because I wasn’t assuming I’d get that response. This was one of those videos where I’m quite unsure of how people will react. I certainly thought it was funny (or I wouldn’t have posted it) but I didn’t bank on it being regarded as “funniest ever”.

On one level I’m not a very good judge of what my audience will really like. Every now and then I’m surprised by how strongly people react to a video. I’m surprised how often a video I’m really not sure of ends up being really popular with my audience. More than once I’ve almost decided against uploading a video and it turned out to be really popular once it was up.

So I’ve learned to simply do my best with videos and not second guess myself. If I think the video is worth making the audience usually thinks it’s worth watching.

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2 responses to “Weirdest kids book in the world

  1. LOL!! I recall reading some strange and depressing books when I was a child… before everything became politically correct and fuzzy-wuzzy-feel-good… but that translation was reeeeally off. >:D

    I’ve actually considered doing videos of some crazy PC books my children are being forced to read, but I haven’t the courage to post them. 😉
    Like the Big, Bad Wolf who cried because he couldn’t blow the brick house down, so the 3 pigs decided to cheer him up by inviting Mr. Wolf to the country fair. 😛

    Love it!
    – Tara

  2. Venom

    OMG….so fucking funny….”transvestite”

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