Fat Dutch kid infecting the world?

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http://www.orapois.com/mostrar_video_v2.php?idpiada=14733&cat=Vídeos&tit=op

Appears to be. Oh my... :eek:

[Joe]

well, hes certainly infecting FOFC.

[sovereignstar]

booooooooooooooo

[Dutch]

oh my...

[KWhit]

I love that fat dutch kid.

I watched Goldmember last night, and was reminded of a line I thought was pretty funny:

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch."

[KevinNU7]

I can't get the original link of the performance to work

[Ksyrup]

This is an excerpt from an article about the song/performance...







The remake that caught on in America was done by a portly 19-year-old from New Jersey named Gary Brolsma. Using his Webcam, he videoed himself lip synching to the song. It is hilarious!

The words "unbridled joy" came to my mind the first time I saw it. My personal favorite is the squeaky eyebrow move. See it for yourself by doing a Web search for Numa Numa.

There. Consider yourself infected.

Gary has created a new dance craze called "chair dancing." It's easy because it's all arm movements. Last week, I showed the video to a houseful of teens, and they loved it.

The video was first shown on www.newgrounds.com. (http://www.newgrounds.com/) On this site, Gary leaves a personal message expressing his shock and surprise at being the leader of the newest fad. "You people are crazy!" he gushes. Bloggers couldn't help but speculate what the next foreign song craze might be. One suggested Schnappi, a Barney-like song sung by a German girl about an alligator. I listened to it at www. schnappi.dl.am/ (http://www.schnappi.dl.am/) where they had several versions, including a Village People remix. The dance version (schnappi.happi) is kind of catchy but, overall, it seemed pretty lame. And yet, somehow, it's stuck in my head! "Hey, Hey, Schnappi! Something, something, something ..."

[jetpunk2000]

I don't get it. I officially don't. My brother finds the video hysterical, and he constantly plays it over and over. So much so that I want to blow my brains out when I hear that damn song. Can somebody please tell me what I'm missing here? It's just not funny.

[MIJB#19]

It's something about the Romanian language being hypnotizing.

[Ksyrup]

I read a couple of articles about the NJ kid on the video, and it sounds like he hasn't taken a liking to his new-found celebrity. This was clearly his fault; he uploaded the video, of course not thinking it would hit worldwide, but still, this wasn't like someone secretly videotaped him or something. He refuses to do interviews and is pretty well embarrassed about the whole thing. I think it says he works at a local office Depot or similar store.

He should take his William Hung-like 15 minutes of fame and be done with it...unless it means putting out a "chair dancing" video and hanging in the public consciousness far longer than we want.

[jeff061]

He uploaded it to NewGrounds and is upset at the reaction? That sounds kind of retarded. What did he expect? I figured this was what he was shooting for.

[Ksyrup]

It's not clear, but I don't think he uploaded it to newgrounds. I think they found it and linked to it, and the rest became history.



Who Numa Numa it would all go this far?

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By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE
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Once, embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing the Star Spangled Banner in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.

But with the Internet, humiliation — like everything else — has gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Brolsma’s performance could be described only as earnest but painful.

His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, such as celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.

To begin at the beginning:

Last fall, Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, N.J., made a video of himself performing a lip-synched version of “Dragostea Din Tei,” a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to “Love From the Linden Trees.” He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the “Numa Numa Dance” — an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

In December, the Web site newgrounds.com, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Brolsma on its home page and, soon, a river of attention began to flow. “Good Morning America” came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH-1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By Friday, the Brolsma rendition of “Love From the Linden Trees” had attracted nearly 2 million hits on www.newgrounds.com (http://www.newgrounds.com/) alone.

It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: “Who knows where this will lead?”

Nowhere, apparently. For, in Brolsma’s case, the river became a flood.

He has sought refuge from his fame in his family’s small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook, N.J. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC’s “Today Show.” According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.

What’s worse is that no one seems to understand.

“I said, ‘Gary, this is your one chance to be famous — embrace it,’” said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Brolsma since the fifth grade.

Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born “American Idol” reject, who sang and danced so poorly that his became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Quebecois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the “Star Wars Kid.”

In July 2003, Raza’s parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission.

“Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision,” according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said — mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with him,” his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, said the other day while taking out the trash.

The question remains why 2million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.

“It definitely has to be something different,” said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of newgrounds.com. “It’s really time and place.”

“The Numa Numa dance,” he said, sounding impressed. “You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends.”

There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Brolsma’s allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth-graders at Saddle Brook Middle School — the same middle school that he attended, in fact.

The students’ reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed.

“That’s stupid,” one said.

“What else does he do?” a second asked.

A third was a bit more generous: “I should make a video and become famous.”

The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.

“Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school,” she said.

His friends said Brolsma always had had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn’t read it with the naked eye.

“He was always very out there — he’s always been ambitious,” said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. “And he’s a big guy, but he’s never been ashamed.”

Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: “I’ve heard a lot of people say it’s not that impressive — it doesn’t have talent. But I say, ‘Who cares?’”

These days, Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day: “I want this to end.”

And yet the work lives on. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.

Reiman figures the larger world has caught on to Gary Brolsma.

“He’s been entertaining us for years,” he said, “so it’s kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile.”

[MIJB#19]

Now I can understand why he's called the fat Dutch kid. Brolsma is undoubtly a last name of Dutch origin.

[Ksyrup]

"...his grandfather, Kalman Telkes..."


Is that Dutch, too?

[Cringer]

shit, they just played the english version on the radio and I have been drinking heavily. not fuckinggood., ok, back to yard work