One of the first and most well known internet memes is the Star Wars Kid Youtube Upload, which came out in 2002 and has over 32,000,000 views. The video was of a kid using a golf ball retriever to imitate different lightsaber moves shown in the Star Wars movies. The boy who filmed the video did not mean for the film to be uploaded to YouTube and distanced himself from it for a long time. He now has used the video as an example of the effects of bullying and tells others how the video led to many occasions of cyberbullying. To read more about the video or the effects it caused, here is a link to an article about it.
Make sure we discuss this (and lonelygirl15) in class!
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