Star Wars Kid
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Similar in some ways to Numa Numa (only even unfunnier), the Star Wars Kid phenomena also features a obese lad doing embarrassing things in front of a camera.
However, instead of purposely recording himself to be put on the Internet, a boy from Canada named Ghyslain Raza became an Internet celebrity almost overnight, due to his hilarious antics with a golf-ball collector and a video camera.
Origins
On November 8, 2002 a young BigAl2k6 had made a video of himself acting like the Star Wars character Darth Maul, using a golf ball retriever to represent his lightsaber. It was filmed at the studio of his high school (Séminaire St-Joseph). On April 19, 2003 one of his friends stumbled on the tape and uploaded it to the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network as a prank.
The video file spread across the Internets extremely rapidly; within mere weeks it had been downloaded OVER 9,000 times. Within days, artists all over the world began making modifications such as adding music, visual effects and sounds, combining it with other well-known videos or scenes from films, etc. for comic effect. Among the many renditions is a Matrix video, with BigAl2k6 as Neo.
It has been rumored that the Star Wars Kid was in fact Slashpanda (aka BigAl2k6).
Profit
There were news reports that the Star Wars Kid's mom filed a CA $351,000 (USD $0.86) lawsuit against the kids who uploaded the video, citing the "harassment and derision" suffered by Raza as the prank had turned him into a global Internet cause célèbre. In 2006, Raza and his tormentors, Michaël Caron, Jean-Michel Rheault and the aptly named Jérôme Laflamme, reached an out-of-court settlement for an unknown sum. Raza finished his school year at the Pavillon Arc-en-ciel ("Rainbow Ward" in English) child psychiatry ward at the Trois-Rivières Regional Hospital Centre.
Just remember the basics:
- Step 1: Tape yourself acting like a douchebag.
- Step 2: Leave the tape out so your hilarious friends can upload the video on the internets.
- Step 3: ?????
- Step 4: PROFIT
Double-bladed Lightsaber Action
We can tell he is a Jedi Sentinel
Teh Pwnage
He didn't saw it coming.
A Challenger Appears!
Star Wars Kid's days are numbered.
Kids React to Star Wars Kid
Awww!! :3
See Also
External Links
- The original post that started the whole mess.
- a follow up featuring the red skull, lulz prevails!
Matrix version- Kill Bill version
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