Äm-irk

Warning! If you're a Finn PLEASE STOP TRYING TO TRANSLATE THE VIDEO! Jesus CHRIST we're doing this for fun, not accuracy. Go listen to ABBA or make some cheap plywood furniture or whatever the fuck it is you people do during the winter. God damn.

Äm-irk

Äm-irk (an awkward Finnish pronunciation of the popular IRC-client mIRC) is a Finnish Internet drama-phenomenon, centered around the country's most active dramasite, the IRC-Gallery. It started with a 2-minute videoclip, of which there were numerous versions and formats circulating on the internets. The video surfaced in late August 2005, and was a considerable source of lulz for at least two weeks.

The video

The video itself is only two minutes long (altough an uncut, hour-long version exists) and shows a group of 16-year-old girls invading a bachelor party held in a park in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. They proceed to advertise their IRC-Gallery profiles, express their concerns about the IRC-Gallery being used for chatting by people not using the IRC at all, and generally acting like 16-year-old girls, with a touch of Daddy's Money Lesbianism.

The creators credited in the end of the video go by the internet nicknames of eetu and raxuli.

Controversy

On the sixth of September, the video was taken down and replaced with text about people taking the joke too far. This could be because the girls made defamation charges. Considering the content of the video - especially the ending, in which the filmmaker's questions about spreading the video over the Internets are met with cheers - the idea of a lawsuit seems absurd, not to mention totally unpassable in court. But some idiots still shit themselves over E-lawyers.

See Also

• Finland
• IRC

The IRC-gallery profiles of the people starring in the clip were viewed and commented to out of the sites graphs. There were also rumours of IRL harassment towards the girls and that they held an organized autograph signing.

Analysis of the Video by Prof. TB Falsename

A hott scene from the video

Introduction

The video opens with white-on black text that has been written by banging a human head up and down on a computer keyboard, preferably one belonging to the people in the video itself. Sample: "Vietetaan polttareita jah tehdaan". what

Footage

The footage opens with five girls in their mid teens. None are hot, and one of them has a forehead big enough to park a bus on. They sound like The Sims. One girl tells us their names: Meera, Murraj, Nooorna, Buurh and Po. She goes on to say: "Burple borple baarm maeetan beep pink ponk bloop burg."

This goes on for hours. The girls amateurishly kiss one another in a way that still wouldn't be erotic even if they didn't look like they'd fallen face-first into a barrel of rocks and sandpaper.

They continue sprouting controversial phrases like "hoopolpa bloorta bling bling daddyfatsex", "argle bargle booli bali bomber murrspla moop." and "Ma rakastan sua oon lesbo!". According to Maxis employees the last sentence means "I love you. I am lesbian girl!" in Sims language. Also, in the final scene in which Foreheado says to the camera "I have no boyfriend" the footage freezes and the word "ÄM-IRK" appears.

Conclusion

Fucked if I know.

Recommendation

Release it straight to video under the title "Donnie Darko 2" and make millions off gullible students everywhere in the world (except for Sweden).

External Links

• The authors' site

• Äm-irk video (embedded Windows Media)

• Äm-irk video (BitTorrent)

• Äm-irk video (Quicktime)