Five Faces Tag – Instruction Manual
1.Pull five faces for the camera. Or spend some time going through your existing videos frame by frame and then capture the five funniest/most/interesting/ugliest faces you can find.
2.Make up a video with a) an invitation to people to guess the faces in the comments b) the five faces as a slide show c) your tagging of five other people whom you would like to see displayed in all their un-airbrushed, unedited glory.
3.Post a video description, describing each of the faces, in terms of what might have happened just before to elicit that reaction, or what might have been going through your head at the time, or how people might interpret that facial expression. Basically, put a caption to each photo. The funnier the better.
4.Post your video as a video response to this one, so that the people you tag can see how the game works.
5.Send your video to the people you tagged.
Somehow I have managed to make this sound much more complicated than it really is. So I did one myself as an example. Here it is:
Hope you enjoy.
YouTube is, in many respects, life in miniature. The worst aspects of human nature find their way onto our little viewing panes. So it should come as no surprise to find vanity and dishonesty cropping up as recurring themes, albeit usually behind the scenes. Few people would admit to either of these failings, but we nonetheless see examples in countless videos: The Five Facts which are obvious embellishments of mundane lives; the hours of preparation and grooming that have preceded a supposedly spontaneous video; the judicious editing of videos to exclude unflattering poses.
But theres a fundamental problem in all of this. People are led to believe that perfect physical appearance is more important than character – which might work for a few years, but is unsustainable in the long term. Along the way, the beautiful people become accustomed to the adulation that comes merely from being beautiful, and inevitably neglect other aspects of their lives. If you are going to be feted no matter how badly you behave, there is no incentive to behave well. Witness Paris Hilton. Unfortunately, we are creatures of habit. So people who get away with being arsehole because they dont need to behave any better fall into the habit of being arseholes. And then, one day, when they hit 30 or 40 or 50 or whenever it is that you suddenly realise that people won’t put up with your crap just because youre pretty, its very difficult to manufacture a real personality from scratch. So I tend to say, throw it all away. Cast off those shackles that are used by other people to define you in terms of your physical appearance. If you look your worst, you will be obliged to make an effort to empathise with other people.
Or something like that. Maybe I just like pulling funny faces.
As it says, you all get to keep all your clothes on. If you want to. You’re welcome to get naked too.
Anything: hilarious, ugly, fat, skinny, funny, bizarre, weird, gross, sexy, contortionist, perverted, orgasmic, frightened, constipated, surprised, whatever, just pull some faces.
I’ll do a competition for the funniest faces of all. Yes. That might be a good idea. Now I just need a few people to join in, otherwise I’m going to win all the prizes. How come almost all the people so far have been from Austrlia? One from Norway, 1 English, 1 American, and 1 Soth African. About 20 Aussies. Who probably are pretty good at not taking themselves too seriously.
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