{"id":2583,"date":"2008-08-08T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2008-08-08T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:24:08","slug":"hitler-sure-made-some-funny-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/08\/08\/hitler-sure-made-some-funny-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitler sure made some funny videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Biggs&#8217; post at CrunchGear about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/08\/08\/the-rise-and-fall-of-twitter\/\">a video<\/a> his coworker made lampooning Twitter (which I&#8217;ve embedded below for your viewing pleasure) provided hard evidence that the Hitler video meme is still alive and well, putting it right up there with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ytmnd.com\">You&#8217;re The Man Now, Dog<\/a>&#8221; as one of the longest-lived Internet memes. What&#8217;s fascinating about the Hitler video theme is that it&#8217;s so incredibly inappropriate and tasteless that it simultaneously makes some people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/08\/08\/the-rise-and-fall-of-twitter\/#comment-2432015\">outraged<\/a> &#8212; at the idea that something so serious would be used to make fun of something so inane and ridiculous &#8212; and at the same time makes fun of those people for being so serious. Wired magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/underwire\/2008\/05\/adolf-hitler-is.html\">wrote a great roundup<\/a> of the Hitler meme back in May, noting that the same clip (from the movie <em>Der Untergang<\/em> or <em>Downfall<\/em>) has been used to make fun of Xbox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QtLCEfWnnGA\">360 problems<\/a>, Vista <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ExeyrNZwzwQ\">blue screens<\/a> and fans of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_9UTvESBIc\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>. Enjoy &#8212; or not  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/ih_F3GmJ5FQ\">http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/ih_F3GmJ5FQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Biggs&#8217; post at CrunchGear about a video his coworker made lampooning Twitter (which I&#8217;ve embedded below for your viewing pleasure) provided hard evidence that the Hitler video meme is still alive and well, putting it right up there with &#8220;You&#8217;re The Man Now, Dog&#8221; as one of the longest-lived Internet memes. What&#8217;s fascinating about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/08\/08\/hitler-sure-made-some-funny-videos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hitler sure made some funny videos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}