Top 10 YouTube classics
Updated on 10 October 2006
Water cooler moments from YouTube, chosen by the Channel 4 News team.
To mark Google's $1.65bn acquisition of video website YouTube, we present ten slices of nonsense.
1. Man dancing around the world
Matt Harding clearly can't dance. That didn't stop him from doing just that in some of the most famous landmarks around the world. 748,000 views and rising.
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2. Mejor que un gol
Translation: 'better than a goal'. Too right.
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3. Conspiracy fact
The net as home of conspiracy theories? Try this revisionist take on the 9/11 attacks.
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4. Lip-synching mania
A sound track, a webcam and plenty of miming. We could have chosen any from dozens of classics. We chose this one along with nearly 10 million others.
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5. Picture perfect
Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years. Strangely compelling.
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6. 'Series of tubes'
Senator Ted Stevens talking about the Net Neutrality Bill, displays an alarming lack of internet savvy.
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7. Chad Vader
Not a YouTube original, but the site made a star of Darth Vader's less successful younger brother.
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8. Animal magic
All a bit Beadle but you can't beat animals doing cute and amusing things. Such as this...
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9. Record breaker
Guinness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time. Why?
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10. Mentos and Pepsi
Another, like the lip-synching, that has become a genre. Just one example.
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