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March 01, 2005

Numa Numa Dance

Not sure if everyone already knows about this, but I thought this was a good example of how something you do that you think is restricted to the online sphere can come back to haunt you in the "real" world: an obscure guy from New Jersey made a video of himself singing and bouncing along to a Romanian pop song, and the video was so widely circulated on the Internet that he's achieved fame of the William Hung variety. He's now hiding from the deluge of interest in his video.

The New York Times' report on this:

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa

Posted by chan at March 1, 2005 06:28 PM