VV : Star Wars Kid
You’re 14 years old, French (Canadian), chubby, and all you wanna be when you grow up is a Jedi. How can this go tits up?
Voted by many as the top viral video of all time, point and laugh as a fat kid with a golf ball retriever pretends to be Obi Wan Knobi. Oh My God.
“Star Wars kid” is an Internet phenomenon which started when a fourteen-year-old French Canadian male high school student filmed himself wielding a golf ball retriever like a lightsaber in a similar fashion to that of Darth Maul. This video clip was found by some of his classmates and shared online using Kazaa, a peer-to-peer client. The child in the videos was taunted and criticized by his peers, which eventually led to a lawsuit. Estimated at over 900 million views (You read that right), the “Star Wars kid” video is one of the most popular videos on the Internet of its time.
In July 2003, his family filed a $250,000 (Canadian Dollar) lawsuit against the families of four of his schoolmates. The lawsuit stated, in part, that he “had to endure, and still endures today, harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large.” and, he “will be under psychiatric care for an indefinite amount of time.”
The lawsuit had been scheduled to begin trial on April 10, 2006; but on April 7, the boy and his parents reached an out-of-court settlement with the defendants. Previous court proceedings had included discussions about whether the defendants had liability insurance (uhh? Do YOU have interent ridicule liability insurance?). In 2006 the boy finally came to terms with his classmates and received CA$351,000 in a lawsuit between three of the four classmates.
Hell that’s 0.00039 cents per view. Duh.
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