YouTube, Video Responses, and the unbearable brilliance of the Redneck Anil

There's a mildly amusing video called "How to Get a Guy in Silicon Valley" making the rounds. Think "Dick in a Box" meets "We Are the Web," plus MacBooks. And when I say "making the rounds," I should be clear to define that to mean "making the rounds among enormous Mac-nerds such as myself."

It's okay. And it's to your right. Click on it and be amused for, oh, I don't know. A moment. (And, honestly, the lyrics are quite good.)

But, like many YouTube videos, it  has inspired a slew of video responses. I never quite know what to make of the video response. Sometimes they seem intended not so much as a response, but as a way to leech traffic from a popular video. But then again, I typically don't know what to make of the YouTube vlog.

Don't get me wrong.  I've watched some 431 videos on the YouTube in the past 10 months--and that's just since I bothered to set up a log in.

But too often, when I go to the most-viewed or favorited videos on YouTube, I just don't get it, and it leaves me feeling like some old media stalwart sniffing derisevely at blogs in the year 2000. Yes, there are incredible home-made spots featuring suburban teenagers ghostriding the whip into brick mailboxes. And, yes, of course, hello!

But. But. But.  Truly. The video blogs and some of the other popular items are just baffling to me. Okay, sure, sometimes they can be entertaining in the same way that, say, a rabid dog might be; you are glad for the distance between you and it. But even those odd moments of  bad performance art captured on webcams don't hold my attention. And I never get how a video becomes popular in the fiorst place.   The number four most-viewed video today is someone singing a Karaoke version of Alanis' "Ironic." I did not bother watching it long enough to determine whethere this was a genuine, or ironic, take.  To whom was that interesting?

Oh, I am old and grumpy. But really. Renetto?

All of which is to say, when I noted dude with his shirt off among the video responses to "How to Get a Guy in Silicon Valley," I scarely expected it to be either the most interesting video I had ever seen on YouTube, or the lost and mostly tooothless redneck relative of Mr. Anil Dash. Fortunately, it is both and it is conveniently located to the left of this text.

JohnnieTV, sir. "If you ain't never listened to no AC/DC, you need to get that part figured out." Ten videos; five fingers. I heard he has 400 videos he just keeps in a vault.  I fucking love YouTube.