My Shitty Attempt at a Viral Video
written by John Chow
After Ryan’s post about how to create, market and make money off a viral video, I decided that I should attempt to make one. I actually made this video on the day I read Ryan’s post but decided not to post it until today. I wanted to see how viral it’ll get without me doing anything.
Turns out, it did not bad. Without any help, the video received over 1,000 views and garnered five Youtube honors, including being ranked #8 most viewed video in the Canada comedy channel yesterday (it’s #12 today). Whether or not people pick up the video and make it viral remains to be seen. If you like the video, then please pass it around. If you don’t like it, then tough shit. 
*Warning - the video contains not safe for work language.
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Excellent video. I knew it would go viral when you showed me it the other night. Now you need to sell advertising on it, roll overs and contextual links!
It had it’s moments, but I woundt say it’s going to hit 1 MM views. If it does then congrats.
If that video gets 1 million hits, I’m going viral baby.
Perhaps this video would be appropriate for PooBlogger.net. Yes someone actually owns it!
incredible domain. I guess there is a niche for everything!
Just goes to show that if you have a famous (imfamous?) name and attach it to a video, it will get traffic.
This was defnitely a Shitty video!!!
I smell a hit. Or do I smell… bwaha
HAHAHA I was laughing my ass off. That was hilarious and quite unexpected!
Good job John! You have great comedic timing, you should consider a career in stand-up comedy!
Or sit down comedy as it were…
Then what will he do with blogging? Can I take over John Chow Dot Com.
Very nice indeed! 1000 views over a couple of days is pretty good! And Zac is definitely right! The person who manages to add that kind of advertising to a video one day is going to be rich pretty quickly…
Having more videos in your blog is a good idea, but its slightly elitist, I mean their are plenty of readers (that includes me too)out there who have a download limit in their net connection. So anything that is streaming would eat into the readers pockets. So you will easily alienate, new, inexperienced readers
Go ahead and get yourself a new isp. Bandwidth limits are long gone even here in Romania.
LOL, but he’s in India, not Romania.
Johnchow is getting crazy! Hey Mr Johnny, are you kidding? Where is this blog going? From a mogul to a bogul? John, you need to be fixed. Go to the repairing bay now. Your circuits are short-circuitsted
Bah! You do whatever you want on your blog, you’re free and you’re right doing so. New experiences never hurt and always bring new ideas. I don’t know, what’s next?
This blog is becoming a Youtubeblog.
I’ve been wondering why you chose to do a comedy video. This site isn’t a comedy site. Wouldn’t anybody who sees your video, having never heard of you, come to this site and be confused?
We have derailed.
John… you have the soul of a stand up comedian
Shitty thing to say perhaps, but I’m pretty sure you’ve been watching a lot of early Richard Prior and / or Eddy Murphy
Funny though…
Actually, I got it from Maclean and Maclean. I remembered it from way back in high school. The things you remember, huh?
John, I can easily see you as a sailor in the Navy. You remind me of a couple of “twigits” from the nuclear fleet. FYI, that is a compliment by the way.
I remember the Eddie Murphy bits from his “Raw” and “Delirious” videos. In your face raw adult humor. John my not be ready to take his routine on the road, but it did have me laughing.
~Terry
Raw is, by far, the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
Thanks for doing this research for us! It really cuts our learning curve down.
Interesting John, how the heck did you make that video with out laughing and how many takes did it take you to complete it.
On a different note John, it is funny that with you tube how many shity video’s get so much traffic when there is no thought put into picking the keywords when the clips are listed. I just got into video’s on my blog at Feed Flare and will be doing video’s on my new B5 Media blog called Tool Belt Tips (dot com) when it goes live in a few weeks. When I was researching video’s and what kind of money can be made from them and what kind of traffic you get I was floored. So back to what I was saying about you tubes keywords, if you spend a bit of time looking at the top video’s on you tube and what words it has taged to it, and applied this to your video’s you will get more traffic and exposure from you tube then you can ever get from Google search, if done right!
Video’s are where it is going to be at if it is not there all ready and really our compition on you tube for exposure are people who lucked out with the right words when uploading it. Should make for a very easy market to over come when you dump a bunch of pro bloggers into it.
Believe it or not, I managed to do the video in one take.
I couldn’t have managed to make the video from 1 try … probably would have laughed a lot and start over again.
A comment below states you shit your pants when you we’re little
I don’t remember something like this happening to me … at least what I remember … I’m sure I used to shit myself a lot until I was 1-2 years old
lmao, me too!
Oh ya John, as a plumber I would not recommend the toilet tank as a stashing point for the shit. You would be better off grabing the plunger and try plunging it down. Leaving it in the tank could have serious ramafications on the workings of said toilet thus resrticting the chances for that second date once a plumber (more then like me me) gets mad at his new customer and asks her to remove the shit from her tank herself. She will then realise who it was.
i couldn’t bare to watch . . . . like watching nascar for the crashes
What, you mean there’s more to NASCAR than metal grinding crashes?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought so.
Wow good job John. Did you come up with that monologue?
This is some really TUFF Shit on Tough Shit!
Yes it is shitty. Couldn’t complete the video. Sorry John.
I have a feeling John shitted in his pants when he was a kid.
a bit too much details can bring back some painful memories huh? lol, j/k good job John
John, do you have pics of how to successfully pick up pieces of sh*t and place them in the back of the toilet?
interesting question … would like to see John reply to this
The Internet being what it is, I’m sure you’ll be able to find it without much effort.
STFU u shit face are u fukin crazy retarded ???? i am never ever goin to read ur shitty blog again . all u can write about is shiting and eating , and screw us up by makin money out of us watchin you write crap . Go fuk ur ad infested fukin website u fukin blowjob asia asshle canadian shit face
Lol wow what a comment dude…
You surely are not an asian!
lol…
a lot of people on the internet combined with 100% anonymity yields hilarious comments.
lollercopter!
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This really is something new :))
… shit’s the new niche :))
Great work John. Enjoyed your video
Well that was a load of crap.
So well done John. You’ve been in my bookmarks for over a year now, and this has made me realise - actually, really - I don’t need you to be there.
Goodbye!
Haha i wonder what gets you people to post these beautiful comments!
What was the need for you to keep it for an year in bookmarks then?
I always say, if you’re not pissing somebody off, you’re doing something wrong.
Totally John,
That philosophy worked great for Howard Stern did it not?
I say keep up the awesome work and remember to always wipe from front to back and not back to front. I makes problems.
I think this will go viral John but why Ryan post this first instead of you.
I agree with this. You know you’re really going somewhere when negative reviews start to pile up. Money in the bank, hey!
Such bad language John, I’m appalled
Funny, the people that bitch and complain and say they are never visiting again…. are the ones that don’t put their name / link to their blog (if they have one) with their comment.