I got some email today from YouTube, stating that a couple old videos of mine (Eating Live Octopus in Korea) are popular enough qualify for their affiliate program (they put ads on my video, I collect a few pennies a year).
Comments on the videos (mostly “ewww!”) come through every now and again, but I hadn’t thought much about them. Until the emails. So I checked them out. Apparently eating strange things is intensely popular on YouTube, since my videos are at a little over 33,000 views each! Certainly not because of anything I did (other than eating the octopus & posting video).
Clearly we should’ve taken video of eating a smoked sheep’s head and snails right out of their shells in Morocco.
And I’ll be sure to take a camera that shoots video to Thailand in February, in case there are any delicacies that make the average North American go “Hmmm” (or “ewww!”) that we stumble across.
In the meantime, some video from the watercooler archives:
huh. I have a video of me eating a mopane worm. Maybe I should upload it, but the sheer “ew!” look on my face is kind of embarassing. 🙂
.-= donna´s last blog ..ow, my brain =-.
When I was in Thailand some 15 years ago, a friend of mine ate fried cockroaches. That was disgusting for me to even look at. Too bad this was in the pre YouTube era; it had a very high eww factor…
.-= Motti Shaked´s last blog ..mshak: @erin_gee Let’s see what you get… =-.