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Man, is it coen viral?

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One hundred thousand shares

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A video, an image, a story

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or some other type of meme rises

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above the pack and spreads like wildfire.

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Viral content has become part of our social

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fabric. But there's something about this phenomenon

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that the media and big tech giants don't

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2:04

How does something go viral? It's

2:06

such a common process in our daily lives

2:08

that it's become a part of our social fabric.

2:10

But there is something about this phenomenon

2:12

that the media and big tech giants don't want

2:14

you to know. They're using that insight

2:17

to sway our decisions and change

2:19

the course of history. To find

2:21

out how things go viral, we'll hear from

2:23

people that have been intimately involved in the creation

2:25

of content that is spread like wildfire.

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One is a video creator that became an overnight

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Internet celebrity by tapping into this

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phenomenon. Another was involved

2:34

in arguably one of the very first

2:37

serious viral videos in the age

2:39

of social media. And finally,

2:41

we'll hear from an expert in creating viral

2:43

content to get a glimpse at the process

2:45

that shapes our culture in ways you

2:48

never imagined. There's

2:54

just something about Austin Fletcher that makes

2:56

you smile when you watch him doing what he does,

2:58

interviewing often unhe hinged people who

3:01

attend anti Trump protests, demonstrations,

3:03

and other kooki events. Fleckus,

3:05

as he's come to be known, is a bearded former

3:08

football offensive lineman from an Ivy League

3:10

college that looks more like the hipsters

3:12

he's interviewing than a deplorable But,

3:14

as the saying goes, don't judge a book

3:16

by its cover. He is an avid Donald Trump

3:19

supporter that regularly produces videos

3:21

that go viral within conservative circles.

3:24

Fleckus grew up in Long Island, New York,

3:26

in a normal, happy household. His

3:28

mother is Italian, his father is of English

3:30

and Polish descent, and the two are still

3:32

together to this day.

3:34

I'm one of four kids. I'm the third of four

3:36

kids. My grandparents

3:39

on my mom's side are immigrants from Italy,

3:42

so growing up we had some of

3:44

that immigrant lifestyle,

3:47

I guess, he'd say, where my mom was very

3:49

strict and there are a lot of rules I

3:51

wasn't allowed to break, really structured discipline

3:53

of upbringing, for sure.

3:55

When he was young, his mother used a very

3:58

Italian technique to make sure her kids

4:00

stayed in line. She threatened them with

4:02

a wooden spoon.

4:03

So I used to get whacked with it when I was little.

4:05

My mom makes me say threatened because she's like, you can't

4:07

tell people I used to hit you. So I

4:10

used to get threatened pretty hard with the wooden spoon

4:12

when I misbehaved when I was little.

4:14

Flucka's mother had a well mapped out plan

4:16

for her kids' education. They attended a Catholic

4:18

high school that was one of the top schools for football

4:20

in the state, and as a Vassar grad herself,

4:23

which is a highly respected private liberal arts

4:25

school in New York. She demanded

4:27

her kids attended the best of the best for college.

4:30

For example, she told us when we were little, she said, you

4:33

can go to Duke, Stanford or the IVY League, or you're

4:35

not going to go to college. She could tell all the kids

4:37

that, and it was a It was tough

4:39

at the time because it was like, oh my god, I'm not that

4:41

smart, how mighty go to these good colleges. But

4:43

she had a plan for us where she was like, all right, the boys,

4:46

you're going to all play football. You're to play you know football,

4:48

You're to play offensive line. You're going to

4:50

play center if you can, and

4:52

you're going to leverage that into hopefully

4:55

a scholarship or at least an admission into

4:57

a good college. She knew that center was the offensive

5:00

offensive lines usually the smartest person

5:02

on the line. It can also be the smallest,

5:05

so I'm like six ones, I'm not necessarily that big

5:07

for a college football player. So she knew

5:09

if I could learn how to call the defense

5:12

and get that experience at center at

5:14

a young age, that would benefit in the long run for

5:16

recruiting.

5:16

The Wooden Spoon ended up paying off because

5:19

his mother's plan went off without a.

5:20

Hitch, and my older brother was an All

5:22

American in high school and then he was an

5:25

All American at Stanford as well. Four year starter,

5:27

captain of the team I played at Dartmouth.

5:29

I was a four year starter, and then my little

5:32

brother played at Princeton.

5:33

When Fluckus started college in two thousand and eight,

5:35

he didn't think much about politics.

5:38

So my freshman year, Obama was

5:40

elected for his first term, and by my senior

5:42

year, or a little after my senior year, he was elected for

5:44

his second term. I had no idea what was going

5:46

on, but because it was hope

5:49

and change and the first black president, I'm like, oh,

5:51

yeah, this is great. And the way the political

5:53

atmosphere was kind of designed was kind of

5:55

like, oh yeah, everyone just let Obama do his thing.

5:58

Everything's fine, don't even pay attention, and go

6:00

worry about everything that's more important in your life.

6:03

So during his school years it wasn't really on the top

6:05

of his mind, but he did get his first

6:07

taste of politics while at Dartmouth.

6:09

By my senior year, though, Occupy

6:12

Wall Street had a tent up at the campus,

6:14

and then one of the guys came over with his guitar

6:17

to our fraternity and was like, hey, man, like,

6:19

can I I'm looking for some beers?

6:21

Can I pay you in songs? And I was like,

6:23

nah, get out of here.

6:30

He graduated with a degree in American imperialism

6:33

and went off to work on Wall Street selling

6:35

mortgage bonds and equities.

6:37

So after college, I went to work

6:39

at City Group. I had a job in New York.

6:41

I had no beard, I had to get to work at five point thirty

6:43

in the morning every day. And after like

6:46

six months once the job started, I knew

6:48

it wasn't for me, just because I was

6:50

I was using my early twenties

6:53

energy, like that emotional energy and like

6:56

to build something that wasn't for me. I was building

6:58

like a corporate bank, like a global bank,

7:00

such a huge thing already, and like the

7:02

better I did, the more money the bank made.

7:05

So it just like really didn't line up with me, and I didn't

7:07

want to. I was just kind of felt myself burning out in

7:09

a way, and I didn't want to waste all that emotional energy

7:11

you have that you can't get back in your twenties

7:14

on something that's so

7:16

not personal. It's so not for me. I

7:18

did that for two years and then I said,

7:21

actually, I'm going to resign at the end of my contract.

7:23

I gave him like a two week's notice towards the end of my second

7:25

year.

7:25

He felt like he had a different calling. He

7:28

wanted to put his energy into comedy.

7:30

So I knew I wanted to do something creative.

7:32

I knew I wanted to be the face of

7:35

whatever comedy I was doing. And I knew

7:38

I wanted to entertain for a good reason,

7:40

which is I swear those were my motives. I was

7:42

like, I want to do something where it's not like sell

7:45

out comedy or like, you know, gross

7:47

comedy. I want to do something where it's like actual

7:50

funny, but I'm also spreading a message I

7:52

believe in.

7:52

So at the end of his two year contract, he

7:54

convinced his employer to pay him out the same

7:57

bonus they'd given to the rest of the staff.

8:00

Up his old Hummer H three that his parents gave

8:02

him and headed out to Cali.

8:07

I drove that out with all my stuff in it, and then I traded

8:09

in at the dealership for a few thousand bucks,

8:11

paid the difference and got the self

8:13

five hundred black on black two seater.

8:16

It was so sleek. I was like Miami vising

8:18

out here in LA for a while. And then he got

8:21

stolen.

8:21

Oh, it got stolen.

8:22

It got stolen in total.

8:24

Like most trying to make it in comedy, Flicka's

8:26

connected with a click of guys and they all

8:28

got a pad together.

8:30

So I had a good group of friends. We actually were living

8:32

in like this kind of this mansion in

8:34

West Hollywood. The guy wanted fifteen

8:36

grand a month in rent. We offered him seventy five

8:38

hundred and he took the deal. So it

8:41

was like me and like seven guys living

8:43

in one house in this really nice area. The

8:46

neighbors hated us because we had all these crappy cars

8:48

like park House. They had like Mercedes

8:51

and Lamborghinites and Ferraris and

8:53

all these nice cars. And there's like ninety eight

8:55

Honda Civic on the cord.

8:58

So I was living in a house with a bunch of guys that were

9:00

all creative, whether it was music or comedy.

9:03

So we're all kind of doing sketches and little things

9:05

together. But I quickly realized,

9:07

and everyone told me when I was taking these meetings, basically

9:09

I cashed in every connection. I had to,

9:12

like, Hey, if you know an agent, a manager, an

9:14

actor, anybody like, tell me and

9:16

I'm gonna go meet them for launch

9:18

or coffee or whatever. And every single

9:20

person told me, you have to do

9:23

something that works, and once it starts working,

9:25

and once it's making money, then Holly will

9:27

come in and kind of like scoop it up in a

9:29

way and scale it. I was doing like little

9:31

sketches where basically I taught myself how to

9:33

edit by putting myself

9:35

into like classic movie moments. I

9:38

was like a like using a green screen basically,

9:40

so I learned how to edit that way where I

9:42

was like, you know, here's me in the sixth sense, in

9:44

the sixth sense and right where the part where the kids

9:47

says like I see dead people and I'm like, come

9:49

on, man, your mom's gonna be home in twenty minutes.

9:51

Please.

9:51

But I was, you know, or like me and Beverly Hills

9:54

cop delivering corny lines and like shooting people.

9:56

So I did a bunch of stuff like that to learn how to edit.

9:58

But I didn't really have an

10:00

audience picked out. I didn't know what

10:03

I wanted to do. I just wanted to be funny and

10:05

creative on a low budget.

10:09

Fleckus hadn't yet found his niche, but

10:12

whether subconsciously or not, he discovered

10:14

an interest in critiquing the media.

10:16

And then I did a musical. It's kind of a

10:19

very dark comedy. It was John ben A Ramsey

10:21

the musical Oh Jesus, very

10:24

dark comedy, but it was actually hilarious.

10:27

I just took a bunch of like, I took like eight Broadway

10:29

songs, the most famous ones, and rewrote them. And

10:32

it was actually more of a take on the media because

10:34

the media at that time was convinced

10:37

that the mother did it, and they pushed the overbearing

10:39

pageant mom theory. Oh it's

10:41

this mother who burned out, who put the pressure

10:43

on the kid, and they did that for ten years,

10:46

and then Patsy Ramsey, the mother actually

10:48

got cancer and died, and then years

10:50

after they're like, oh, new DNA evidence

10:52

proves it wasn't her. But the media wasn't

10:54

held accountable. Everyone just previousally drove

10:56

that woman to the edge, and

10:58

then you know she died and

11:00

they're like, uh, oh, well it was someone else. So

11:03

it was actually it wasn't necessarily like it was a dark comedy,

11:05

but it wasn't poking fun necessarily at the

11:07

death. It was mostly poking fun at the media,

11:09

how thirsty they are for stories and

11:11

how they promoted this whole narrative and it killed

11:14

somebody and they didn't even They weren't held

11:16

accountable or really care. So my

11:18

whole thing was like, oh, cool dominated the musical,

11:20

this would be really funny. I invited all of Hollywood.

11:22

A bunch of people came and they were like, yeah,

11:25

that was great. But I still got no opportunities

11:27

from it. And it was good. It was a good experience. Everyone

11:29

liked it. I paid the people, so

11:32

no one was really mad that about

11:34

anything, and it went well. But then

11:36

Hollywood still didn't give me any opportunities and

11:39

nothing happened. They didn't care. I had a bunch of other

11:41

scripts, no one really read them, no one gave me the time

11:43

of day, and

11:46

then politics started happening.

11:47

You called women you don't like, fat pigs,

11:50

dogs, slobs and

11:52

disgusting animals.

11:54

Your Twitter account.

11:55

Only wrote to o'donald.

11:59

No, it wasn't.

12:01

Fluckus probably didn't realize it at the time, but

12:04

he was about to tap into the phenomenon

12:06

that makes content go viral, a

12:09

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12:11

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Welcome back. I'm Adriana Portez

13:22

so Ifleckov decided to leave his wall straight career

13:24

behind. He packed up and went west

13:26

to Cali in pursuit of a career in comedy.

13:29

But after a series of projects creating funny skits

13:31

and writing and producing a dark musical comedy.

13:34

None of it was opening doors for him in Hollywood.

13:37

But then something happened. The

13:39

twenty sixteen presidential

13:41

campaign kicked off. Fleckus

13:44

liked Trump from the beginning and watched

13:47

as the media initially had fun with his candidacy.

13:49

Before Trump was the Republican candidate,

13:52

they were treating him pretty well, like he was going on

13:54

the late night Stephen Colbert shows, like

13:56

those type of things.

13:57

I also want to apologie

14:00

to you because I've said a few

14:02

things about you over the years that

14:05

that are uh, you know, impolite

14:07

company, perhaps are unforgivable, almost

14:10

almost unforgivable.

14:16

Nice people were like, oh Donald

14:18

Trump, like maybe it's a joke, maybe it's not. But

14:20

then once he got the ticket, I saw

14:22

how everything changed, and he was just like, oh,

14:24

racist Donald Trump, history of racism,

14:26

all these horror sexists, all these horrible accusations.

14:29

By contrast, he noticed how the media was treating

14:31

the Democrat candidate.

14:33

Uh.

14:33

When I when I saw, cause I'm from New York, so

14:35

I did follow Hillary Clinton for a while and I've always

14:38

not liked her. My family has never liked her.

14:40

So when I saw how she was getting the preferential

14:42

treatment in the debates, and how the media

14:44

was kind of, you know, her mouthpiece

14:47

in a way and just backing her up on a lot of things

14:49

that I knew weren't true. And I saw the way the

14:51

media was spinning everything, watching.

14:55

The biased media, the same industry

14:57

he lampooned in his musical and

15:00

on the Real Estate mogul as a racist

15:02

while elevating a political couple that were

15:04

once members of a white's only

15:06

golf club, observing as a

15:08

hypocrite media Brandon Trump a misogynist

15:11

while celebrating the Clinton machine that

15:13

tried destroying women accusing

15:15

Bill of rape. Watching that

15:18

media manufacturer fake news,

15:20

stirred something in Flecka's I.

15:22

Saw behind the curtain in a way of like how the media

15:24

works and how the media of manipulates

15:26

and operates. So that

15:28

really woke me up.

15:29

This, combined with his introduction to another

15:32

man, helped give Fluckus a new

15:34

direction.

15:35

And then I watched Hating Breibart,

15:37

a documentary about Andrew Breitbart, and

15:39

at that time I wasn't too familiar with him,

15:41

but once I kind of discovered the life of Andrew

15:43

Breitbart, what he stood for, what

15:46

he fought for, and everything he did. I watched

15:48

all of his videos.

15:49

You don't even know why you're here.

15:53

You don't understand why

15:55

you're here.

15:56

Are you here to stop the hand?

15:58

Yes?

15:59

Are you a hate man?

16:02

I'm a pig? What are you here for?

16:05

I am here to stop?

16:06

Here, said

16:10

the tapeful one thing, one thing

16:12

one one thing that he said the tape

16:16

one one, not a hundred

16:18

one.

16:19

What I'm

16:22

into your Trump?

16:23

It's a trap. Truly

16:26

is a trap.

16:27

I just kind of like became activated

16:30

in a way, like I really didn't care about politics.

16:32

I really didn't think it was important.

16:34

I thought it was just like so much above me and bigger

16:36

than me that I would never even care about

16:39

being involved in that world. And then once

16:41

I kind of discovered Breitbart and how they

16:43

were treating Trump, I just felt like completely

16:45

activated and turned on and was like, all

16:47

right, this is my mission in life, Like I have

16:49

to do this.

16:50

His moment would come shortly after Trump's

16:52

inauguration rolfam

17:06

here protests started erupting

17:08

all across the country over Trump's travel

17:11

ban.

17:11

President Trump defending his controversial

17:14

travel ban, even as attorneys general

17:16

from sixteen states slamm it is quote

17:18

unconstitutional, un American

17:20

and unlawful protesters gathering

17:23

in cities across the United States, from New York

17:25

to Boston, Los Angeles and beyond,

17:27

all in response to the order that defectively

17:30

bans two hundred and eighteen million people

17:32

from seven Muslim majority states Muslim

17:35

majority nations.

17:36

The anti Trump resistance took to airports

17:39

all across the country to rally against

17:41

his so called Muslim ban.

17:43

There was the quote

17:45

Muslim ban that Trump was implementing.

17:48

And I had a bunch of friends in West

17:50

Hollywood where I lived that were going

17:52

to the Lax Airport terminal to

17:54

protests. And I knew for a fact

17:56

they knew nothing about what was going on, and

17:58

they were just going either to

18:01

take pictures for Instagram, to go with

18:03

some girls they liked, or just to

18:05

go to They thought they were kind of like

18:07

obligated to.

18:10

So he grabbed a camera that he got

18:12

for free, a microphone, he strapped

18:14

a wooden spoon to it, it's a playful nod to his

18:16

childhood days, and headed to Lax

18:19

to interview the protesters.

18:21

This is Flucka's coming at you Live from Tom

18:23

Brady. Tom Bradley, who

18:25

International Airport.

18:26

Luccas was a bit nervous, but he knew that with

18:29

his look, he'd fit right in with everyone

18:31

he'd be interviewing.

18:32

I look like a left leaning person, like I'm

18:34

in La, I have a beard. I wore like

18:36

a Culver City Ice hockey shirt, so

18:42

like no one expected anything from me. If I had worn

18:44

like a Maga hat in a suit and had like a real

18:46

microphone, people might have given me a

18:48

problem. But in the beginning I was really able

18:50

just to sneak around and just like get the

18:52

sound bites like hey, why are we protesting? Oh,

18:55

we're protesting because Donald Trump wants to put all

18:57

Muslims in concentration camps. And I'm just like, oh,

18:59

very cool, very well, like tell

19:01

me more. So, like I realized quickly

19:03

that like it wasn't necessarily necessarily going to be

19:05

like me making jokes. It was gonna be about me, like

19:07

getting them to open up to me and just let

19:10

it all out, tell me everything, tell me what you

19:12

feel.

19:13

I had a personal conversation with chief Standing

19:16

Bull sitting Bull from the Sioux tribe.

19:18

I personal one on one conversation with the chief

19:20

of the Soo tribe, so I know exactly what's going on

19:23

I don't just believe what I hear.

19:25

I go and talk to people.

19:26

Firsthand and get their stories and

19:28

find out what's going on.

19:29

You think that there's bad people that you're

19:31

not getting the story from. If you ever talked to a terrorist,

19:34

I have.

19:35

Talked to extreme means, yes, where

19:38

I kind of know why they're so angry.

19:39

Where did you talk to this extreme pole?

19:41

We'll never say that on your camera?

19:43

No, see where is it in America?

19:45

Irregardless? Please do not.

19:46

Ask irregardless word

19:48

right, Please do not ask me that that's is serious.

19:51

I'm not like.

19:52

So, so you have America's best interest,

19:54

but you've spoken with extremists and you

19:56

won't tell at the authorities of who these people

19:58

are.

19:59

Why would I say that I camera?

20:01

I don't know, and that's why I want to know why you would

20:03

say that on camera?

20:04

Sense to ask me that question on camera?

20:07

Obviously you have no common sense to say that you've spoken

20:09

to terrorist extremists and did not report

20:11

it.

20:11

Yes, no, I have not never, never, never,

20:15

Well.

20:15

Check the tape, I guess, but I would ask like a

20:17

passive aggressive question where it's like, yeah,

20:19

that sounds good, but like, isn't it the

20:21

case? That you know, a billion Muslims

20:23

live outside these countries, Like what do we say about

20:26

that? Like I was always on their team, like what do we say

20:28

about that? And then they're like, I didn't

20:30

know.

20:30

That the countries that hear

20:32

is banning don't have you

20:34

know, they're not the terrorists that came for

20:36

nine to eleven.

20:37

The terrorists nine eleven did train in these countries.

20:39

Right, that's true, but they didn't come from those countries.

20:49

Without even knowing it, he was creating the content

20:52

for his YouTube channel that he would later call fleck

20:54

As Talks.

20:55

My channel's called fleck As Talks, but I always make a joke

20:57

that it should be called Fleckus Listens, because

20:59

like, I'm like asking like basic questions.

21:02

I'm not even that good at like the way I word

21:04

them. But then it's mostly the people who

21:06

are saying the crazy stuff or

21:08

saying the engaging stuff.

21:10

With the lax interviews. He knew almost

21:12

immediately that he'd found the approach. He

21:14

was looking for humor with the message.

21:17

And I went home and I saw

21:19

in the footage all the craziness

21:22

and all the things on all the crazy soundbites I got,

21:24

and I was like, oh, my god, this is like actually comedy.

21:28

The video was hilarious. He

21:30

had struck comedy gold. But

21:32

his friends warned him about going down this

21:34

path and.

21:35

They were like, oh, you can't take that side. You'll

21:37

never work in Hollywood again. And I was like,

21:39

I don't work in Hollywood as it is, so

21:42

what do I care. People don't call me

21:44

back, they don't give me opportunities. So I'm

21:46

just gonna, you know, stay true to what I believe

21:48

in.

21:49

So if Fluckas sat down at his computer,

21:51

edited his first Fluckus Talks video

21:54

and uploaded it to his YouTube channel. At

21:57

the time, he had roughly eight hundred sibs, a

22:00

very small number in the ecosystem of YouTube,

22:03

not enough to make a video spread online. But

22:05

within twenty four hours he knew

22:07

he was onto something.

22:09

I used to make comedy videos. I used to try

22:11

to do YouTube stuff and it would never get much

22:13

traction. But I released my first video

22:15

where I was actually questioning these protesters,

22:17

and it got like one hundred thousand views in twenty four hours.

22:20

For a YouTube channel with under one thousand

22:22

subscribers. It was an enormous

22:25

number. It wasn't long before he figured

22:27

out why.

22:28

So initially it went out on my small YouTube channel

22:30

like it did okay, but then it got discovered

22:33

by the Blaze and info Wars.

22:35

He quickly came to a realization.

22:37

I learned kind of the business

22:39

side of it too, so I was like, okay, Like the

22:41

Blaze and info Wars

22:43

they shared my video, they also put a little

22:45

note like watch out for the there is curses,

22:49

like you know, printal advisory or whatever.

22:51

So I realized, okay, like I'm

22:53

the right is completely underserved. There's no content

22:56

for most of these people. Netflix, Hulu,

22:58

Hbo, everything is to the left. I'm

23:00

kind of creating content that these people like. And

23:03

also the media outlets are going to be my way

23:05

of getting to a bigger audience than my subscribers.

23:07

So I started censoring the curses. I started

23:10

keeping that in mind, and then every time

23:12

I released a video after that, I would send

23:14

it to every single outlet, and then

23:16

you know, one out of five videos

23:18

would get reshared. Then it was like two out of

23:20

five, and now I'm at the point where it's like basically

23:23

every single one, we'll get picked up by somebody.

23:27

Fluckus had found an audience the

23:29

Maga movement and began tapping

23:31

the distribution hubs that spread the messages

23:33

to this niche crowd conservative media.

23:37

He bleeped out cursewords and packed the videos

23:39

with golden sound bites, and as a

23:41

result, he increased the shareability of

23:43

his videos. His clips became

23:45

weapons for his audience because it displayed

23:47

the stupidity of their ideological foes.

23:51

Fluckus Talks videos now regularly

23:53

go viral amongst the deplorables because

23:55

he learned how to effectively tap the phenomenon

23:58

that spreads information. Another

24:01

man also tapped this viral process,

24:03

but in a different way, and when he

24:06

did, he became perhaps the first person

24:08

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25:21

how to increase the shareability of his videos

25:24

and now they regularly go viral amongst

25:26

the deplorables. This viral

25:28

phenomenon has been around since the birth of the Internet,

25:31

but with the advent of social networks, the

25:33

process has accelerated exponentially.

25:37

Andrew Meyer is perhaps patient zero.

25:40

He would become part of what some claim

25:42

is the very first serious viral

25:44

video in the age of social media. It

25:51

was September two thousand and seven, and Andrew

25:54

was cruising his college when he ran across

25:56

an advertisement.

25:57

So I was walking around the University of

25:59

Florida campus. I saw a

26:01

flyer on the wall that

26:04

John Kerry was coming to speak at a town

26:06

hall forum, and I was absolutely

26:08

stunned.

26:09

A senior undergraduate who wrote for the school

26:11

newspaper, Andrew was once a supporter

26:14

of John Kerry, voting for him in two thousand

26:16

and four, largely because of his promise to end the

26:18

wars.

26:18

In then at least, there was literally no

26:20

one I would have rather asked questions too

26:22

than John Kerry. And suddenly

26:24

he's going to be at my campus taking questions.

26:27

So that opportunity, to me, that was something

26:29

that I wouldn't miss for anything.

26:31

I just had to go and ask him.

26:34

After standing up for him and

26:36

wanting him to end the wars and then finding

26:38

out that he was essentially a fraud and he's coming

26:41

to campus to answer questions, I had

26:43

a lot of questions for him.

26:44

At the time, Andrew became disillusioned

26:47

with both the Democrats and the Republican parties.

26:49

But it was obvious to

26:51

me anyway that the Democrats

26:54

really with the Republicans were

26:57

no different. At that point, they

26:59

were talking about invading Iran,

27:01

and all of the information from the Downing

27:04

Street Memo from other sources

27:06

had come out that the Bush administration

27:08

had really ginned up their causes

27:10

for war in Afghanistan,

27:13

had created fake

27:16

news to go into Iraq though

27:19

so called weapons of mass destruction that Saddam

27:21

Hussein had, So all of

27:23

that was out there that they were lying to the American

27:25

public to bring us into wars that

27:27

we really didn't need to be in. And

27:30

instead of standing up for

27:32

getting us out of war, John Kerry

27:34

and the Democrats, all of these so

27:37

called defenders

27:39

of peace, they had no problem

27:42

giving Bush a pass on all of his misinformation

27:45

that he put out there. They could have moved to

27:47

impeach George Bush.

27:56

So Andrew decided he was going to question Carrie

27:58

at the event and capture him.

27:59

The day before the town

28:02

hall. I was still

28:05

just overwhelmed that

28:07

he was actually going to be on campus

28:09

taking questions, but I knew

28:12

that I had to go. I had to document

28:14

myself asking him questions because

28:17

nobody in the media was asking

28:19

hard questions. You'd never see hard

28:21

questions asked of Democrats or

28:23

really Republicans.

28:25

All of the.

28:25

Wars that were going on. It was just sort of

28:27

accepted by the media. And so I

28:30

wanted to ask John Carey whether

28:32

he was really what he claimed to

28:34

be a show it on camera

28:36

and actually put it online so people could

28:39

see this is what happens when you ask real

28:41

questions to a politician.

28:43

At the time, social media had began

28:45

to blossom. Google had just purchased

28:47

YouTube, which was largely populated

28:50

with pirated content and what you'd

28:52

see on America's Funniest Home videos. Facebook

28:54

had only become open to the general public roughly

28:57

a year earlier, and the iPhone

28:59

had only been on the market for several months.

29:01

By September two thousand and seven, there were only

29:03

about a million sold. In other words,

29:06

going viral was not quite a thing yet,

29:09

but all the pieces were there to allow a

29:11

hot story to spread like wildfire. Andrew

29:17

saw an opportunity to take advantage of this burgeoning

29:19

social media ecosystem.

29:21

I wanted to take video and yes

29:24

put it on YouTube, and then host it on my

29:26

website. Dandrewmeyer dot com

29:29

to show people this is what real journalism

29:31

looks like. This is what happens when you ask questions

29:34

to somebody that was running for president, and

29:36

this is what real questions look like.

29:38

So he went to the auditorium where John Kerrey

29:40

was scheduled to speak, with a handheld

29:43

camera in tow and only a glimmer of

29:45

an idea of what was about to happen.

29:47

So I expected that asking real

29:49

questions in public, that it would

29:51

cause somewhat of a scene,

29:56

the audience being shocked, maybe John

29:59

Kerrey being offended,

30:01

who knows. I expected that it would cause

30:03

a scene, but nothing like what actually transpired.

30:06

The event was supposed to be a town hall, which

30:08

typically means that speakers field questions

30:10

from attendees throughout the entire event, but

30:13

apparently there was some false advertising.

30:15

Carrie spoke roughly for an hour in his signature

30:18

monotone voice, without taking any questions.

30:24

The student organizers of the event were fully

30:26

aware of the schedule.

30:28

And then when they say

30:30

finally it's time for questions from the crowd, the

30:32

students that had organized the event obviously

30:35

had put together like three or four questions

30:37

of their own they were first in line.

30:39

They knew it was time for that.

30:40

So by the time Andrew realized what was happening,

30:43

there was already a thick line at the microphones.

30:46

Yeah, I get in line. There's a microphone

30:48

on either side of the auditorium,

30:50

and by the time I go to stand

30:52

in line, there's a big line of people on either side,

30:54

maybe ten twelve deep of

30:57

people on either side.

30:58

To speak, the student organized got

31:00

to ask a few questions. Then it was open to

31:02

the rest of the attendees.

31:04

But when John Carey finally took questions,

31:06

people asked, you know, they got three or four

31:09

questions from the crowd, and then people from

31:11

the student bureau that had been putting on

31:13

the event started telling everybody to sit down.

31:15

That was it, you know, three or four questions

31:18

and then all right, everybody had

31:20

their chance. You know, that's the that's the end of the town

31:22

hall.

31:23

What happened next.

31:24

When the student

31:26

from the speaker's bureau had told everybody

31:28

to sit down, I didn't sit down.

31:31

I just stood in line.

31:33

I didn't come to listen to John Kerry

31:35

give a boring stump speech for an hour

31:37

without you know, saying anything. So I

31:40

just continued standing in line, and

31:42

then someone else from the speaker's bureau

31:45

came over told me to sit down. I didn't,

31:47

and he signaled for the police from the back of the

31:49

room.

31:50

Andrew figured this was his only chance,

31:52

so he handed his camera to a girl next to

31:55

him and asked her to film his questions.

31:57

And so, with police

31:59

officer coming to drag me off, I guess

32:02

for not sitting down, I went

32:04

to the microphone. I stepped maybe three

32:06

feet at that point in front of me, because everybody

32:08

had sat down, maybe three feet.

32:12

I stepped to the microphone in front of me and

32:14

asked, are you gonna Are they gonna arrest me for

32:16

trying to ask you a question?

32:18

Carry allowed Andrew to ask away, and

32:20

so began his entrance into the history

32:22

books.

32:29

Sure, I've seen.

32:31

Morelan to thank you for your time. You spend

32:33

a lot of time toping those here that well. Thank you

32:35

for coming and being open and honest. You

32:38

recommended to book to us earlier. I wanted

32:40

to recomend a book to you.

32:41

It's called Our Madhouse by Greg

32:43

blast Action.

32:45

Yeah, he's the top investigative journalists

32:47

in America. I've already read it, and he says

32:49

you wanted two thousand four election.

32:51

Isn't that amazing?

32:53

Isn't that amazing you wanted two thousand and four.

32:55

In fact, there were multiple reports

32:57

on the day of the election of disenfranchising

33:00

of black voters.

33:01

Right, I'll ask my question, Thank

33:03

you very much. I'll ask my question. I'm as

33:06

he's been talking for two hours, and I think I'm gonna do

33:08

that. U.

33:10

I spoke for literally ninety seconds

33:13

in that time. I asked three

33:15

or four questions because once

33:18

once I'm done asking my initial question,

33:20

I know that there's no way, you

33:23

know, they're gonna let me have a back and forth

33:25

with John carry. So I wanted to get

33:27

in everything I had to say before h

33:29

I you know, passed the mic

33:32

back. And also I wanted

33:34

people to understand where I was coming

33:36

from and asking him these questions and why

33:38

I didn't want to sit down.

33:40

I'm gonna ask my question. I'm gonna ask

33:43

my question.

33:43

So they're multiple of course of Disapperanci,

33:46

I wasn't a black voters on on.

33:47

The day of the election in two thousand and four, there

33:49

was also a voting She's.

33:54

So miss all these supports of sus

33:58

going on. How could you con see the lection

34:00

all the day? How did you con see two

34:02

thousand one lest one day? In this book

34:04

says there were five million? Both that spressed you.

34:07

Won the elections? Didn't you want to be president? Auser? I'm

34:09

not even done it. I have two more questions. And if

34:11

you were still against al right, how are your

34:13

not say? Listen, peach Bush now in peace?

34:15

Bush?

34:15

Now before you can invade Iran? Why

34:17

do we peach in peach? Bush plains

34:20

in peace? For hook blows up? Want be ap Bush?

34:22

All right?

34:23

Also?

34:24

Are you a member?

34:25

Were you ever felling Rod from college? Bush?

34:27

Were you in the same secret society as Bush?

34:29

Were you and spelling both? Thank you for cutting my mic? Thank

34:31

you.

34:32

Andrew was ultimately making the argument that Carrie

34:34

and Bush, as members of a well documented

34:37

secret society called Skull and Bones from their

34:39

Alba mater Yale, were actually

34:41

not political adversaries but instead

34:43

part of the same elite club, and as

34:45

a result, Carrie was never gonna hold Bush

34:47

accountable for his actions that led

34:49

to America's invasion of Iraq. It

34:52

was a provocative, but really a fascinating

34:54

line of questioning. Just a few years earlier,

34:56

John Kerry and George Bush had been locked

34:58

in a heated competition for the White House, with

35:01

Carrie promising to end the wars. Carrie,

35:03

of course lost, but after information

35:06

surfaced suggesting the Bush administration

35:08

Cherry picked facts to justify

35:10

an invasion of Iraq, John Kerry

35:13

and the Democrats backed off from taking Bush to

35:15

task for the invasion. Andrew's

35:17

inquiry into Weather being brothers with Bush

35:19

in a secret Yale society affected

35:21

Carrie's decision making was at a minimum

35:24

relevant, while it was the skull and

35:26

Bones questions that appeared to rile up

35:28

the police on hand and the speed at

35:30

which they escalated the situation was

35:32

stunning.

35:33

Also, you ever spelling

35:35

Roads and College and Bush? Were you in the same secret

35:38

society as Bush? Were you in spelling both? Thank you for cutting

35:40

my mic? Thank you? How are you going to arrest

35:42

me?

35:42

Excuse me?

35:43

Excuse me? What are you? Whoa?

35:45

Whoa?

35:45

Whoa?

35:45

Whoa?

35:48

And the police once I was finished

35:50

asking these questions, they immediately

35:53

grabbed me, which I wasn't expecting.

35:55

I had been allowed to stay in line

35:58

and asked questions. I

36:00

totally did not understand why after asking

36:02

questions that I was now allowed to ask I

36:05

was being grabbed by police officers.

36:08

I'm doing

36:09

it. What

36:17

are you doing? What are you going

36:19

out?

36:20

What is going on?

36:21

I want to stand listen with my question.

36:24

Well, the police officers are arresting

36:26

me, and at this point I'm freaking

36:28

out a little bit.

36:29

I was twenty one.

36:30

I had just read nineteen eighty four, which

36:33

talks about all kinds of abuse

36:35

that citizens would suffer in

36:37

a sort of fascist state, which

36:40

is what I'm now leading myself

36:42

to believe that I'm in. You know, I'm asking

36:44

real political questions to John Carrey, which

36:47

I was allowed to ask. John

36:49

Kerry let me stand in line. And

36:51

now because of the questions, literally, the police officer

36:53

wrote in the report, because of the questions, they were

36:55

arresting me. So I was freaking out

36:57

a little bit. I did not just let them take

37:00

me. I put my arms in the air. I'm

37:02

holding a book, and I'm saying, why

37:04

are you arresting me.

37:15

There's a famous picture of

37:17

one of the police officers pointing a taser at me

37:19

while I'm holding my arms in the air holding

37:21

a book. You want to talk about

37:23

hands up, don't shoot. I'm holding

37:26

my hands up in the air holding a book, so

37:28

they think I'm some kind of dangerous

37:30

threat because I'm holding

37:32

my arms up with a book. So

37:35

then three of them grabbed me. At

37:38

one mammoth police officer

37:41

he looked like he could play defensive tackle for

37:43

the Florida Gators. He grabbed me and

37:46

started just moving

37:49

me up the aisle and out of the auditorium,

37:51

like totally picked me up.

37:53

Which you know, he's a strong guy.

38:08

He's got a taser on his chest.

38:10

I meant.

38:17

When they get Andrew to the back of the room, they begin

38:20

to pin him down to arrest him, and

38:22

this is when he delivers his now famous

38:24

line, don't.

38:27

Taste merope, don't.

38:30

I didn't Oliver God

38:46

that got that got.

38:51

Being tasered is extremely painful,

38:53

and there you could you could tell

38:56

when you're when you're being when you're being

38:58

tased, that there's a reason hundreds

39:00

of people have.

39:01

Died from being taste.

39:02

It's serious.

39:03

You're getting vaults and vaults of electricity

39:05

run throughout your body.

39:15

The police eventually walked Andrew out of the building,

39:18

placed him into a police car, and hauled him

39:20

off to jail. Luckily for Andrew,

39:22

people were recording the shocking episode.

39:25

One video was taken by an attendee, likely

39:27

with a new smartphone, and that video

39:29

was sold to The Gainesville Son, a local

39:32

newspaper. The other video was

39:34

his own, shot by the woman he handed

39:36

his camera to. The Gainesville

39:38

Son version only included footage of him being

39:40

manhandled by the police, but the one

39:42

taken with his camera included all of

39:45

his questions. The woman

39:47

uploaded the video onto YouTube and it

39:49

went viral almost immediately.

39:51

When I woke up in the morning in jail,

39:54

one of the guards came by and told me you

39:56

were on Good Morning America this morning. So

40:00

while I'm still in jail, the video had

40:02

already gone viral and

40:06

the news was saying all kinds of things about

40:08

me without me getting to speak on my

40:10

own path.

40:11

Now I've been tasered for a story, and all

40:13

I can say is he is.

40:14

The biggest wimp in the United States of

40:16

America. Was excessive force used

40:19

and if it was, how much this show man

40:21

should get to damages?

40:22

But I don't think he's going to get it.

40:23

I mean, look, this guy came in.

40:25

He came in to cause trouble. I mean, I don't think there's any

40:27

question.

40:27

About that yes, the entire situation,

40:29

an unfortunate combination of police overreaction

40:32

and what appears to be student douche baggery.

40:35

Would likely set the video blazing through social

40:37

media. Was how quickly law enforcement

40:39

escalated the situation.

40:41

This thing obviously escalated to the point

40:43

where it was out of control.

40:45

This is an overreaction on

40:47

an academic setting.

40:48

Not sure whether he was threatening him one except maybe he was

40:50

taking up too much time.

40:51

I'm not easily shocked, but tasering

40:54

somebody because they had got a big math would get

40:56

me in trouble.

40:57

It looked like a classic case of police brutality,

41:00

something the public loves to share. His

41:04

school quickly began applying pressure on Andrew,

41:07

threatening a felony and expulsion from school

41:09

just months before he was to graduate. So,

41:12

on the advice of his parents and against his nature,

41:14

he apologized to the school and accepted

41:17

only one sit down interview.

41:18

Remember the student who got tasered when he confronted

41:21

senator carried at a university event and wouldn't

41:23

step away from the microphone.

41:24

Andrews, don't tase me. Bro incident became

41:27

a legendary meme that made appearances in

41:29

songs and stand up routines, and

41:32

even in films and TV shows, drop

41:34

the saber.

41:34

And step away from the futuristic oar. I

41:36

take all these from no Man, eat

41:39

a day, anything, not any

41:41

Day.

41:46

Don't Teze Me Bro.

41:47

Andrew recently published a book about the ordeal

41:50

entitled appropriately Don't Tase Me Bro,

41:52

Real Questions, Fake News, and My Life

41:55

as a meme. Don't Tase Me Bro

41:57

has become a viral legend.

41:58

For something a viral, you

42:01

have to have people want to share it.

42:03

That's Mike Cernovich, author, journalist,

42:05

filmmaker and podcaster with an uncanny

42:07

ability to create content that goes viral.

42:10

And that seems maybe but now,

42:12

but a lot of people don't think of it in that terms.

42:15

Are people going to want to share this? And

42:17

if they aren't, then it won't go viral,

42:20

And if they are, then it has viral potential.

42:22

Flick Us Talks Videos and Andrews

42:24

Don't Tasee Mibro incident highlight two

42:26

types of viral content, one

42:28

going viral within a niche and the other

42:30

going viral within the mainstream. Mike

42:33

is personally experienced both.

42:35

We always think of something going viral as in

42:37

one hundred million people, fifty million people.

42:40

Viral in the sense of that rap

42:43

song This is America. I mean that goes viral

42:45

even though it's being propagated by the media.

42:48

The first time I reat viral, I was in

42:50

Budapest, Hungary. I'd read a bunch of articles

42:53

about how apparently there was a major

42:55

refugee crisis and a Hungarian people

42:57

were kicking people who are refugees

43:00

and everything, and I thought, I want if that's true or not.

43:02

So Mike went to Budapest to see if the media

43:04

was covering the so called refugee crisis

43:06

accurately, which has now become an all

43:08

too familiar trend. Mike learned

43:11

that the media was, in fact not telling

43:13

the truth, so he decided to

43:15

tell the story of what he saw.

43:16

I went to Facebook at a very small Facebook page at

43:18

the time and not any real prominence

43:21

like I have today, and it went viral

43:24

over reached over a million and a half people, which for me was

43:26

like crazy numbers. I'd never seen anything like that.

43:29

What Mike has witnessed when his work explodes

43:31

online is that there are at least two pathways

43:33

that make a story, a meme, or a piece

43:35

of video to go viral. One

43:38

pathway is that the information is spread

43:40

by what's called a major distribution node

43:42

like a cable news network or a person

43:44

with a massive social media following, basically

43:47

someone or something with a huge

43:50

built in audience. Another route

43:52

for something to go viral is when the information

43:54

strikes a chord with a niche audience on

43:56

a grassroots level. Mike relates

43:59

this to his Budapest migrant story.

44:01

That was a niche issue. Everybody in Hungary

44:04

wanted people to say, look here, this is what's

44:06

really happening. We're not actually doing

44:08

what the media is telling us to do. So the

44:10

entire country was motivated to

44:12

share that. That was a niche interest and

44:14

it went massively viral. So you don't have to

44:16

even get a huge note. I didn't have

44:19

a major network note or a

44:21

e celebrity or a prominent person or a media

44:23

outlet or anybody else doing it. That was

44:25

a case where the people had

44:27

a really strong interest in getting that information out

44:30

to Very few number of people can get

44:32

those out in a big way. Figure let's

44:34

say ten thousand people

44:37

in Hungary want to

44:40

tell people to know the truth. Wander Metcal's

44:42

law that network is equal

44:44

to end squares.

44:46

Metcalf's law is also referred to as

44:49

the network effect. The law

44:51

is used to measure the value of a connected

44:53

network. For example, at the introduction

44:56

of the facts machine, the value of

44:58

the fax machine network was very small.

45:00

If there are just two people using fax machines,

45:03

they could only make one connection the

45:05

line connecting the two machines. But

45:08

as you add fax machines or nodes

45:10

to the network, their ability to share

45:12

information increases dramatically. By

45:15

adding just one fax machine, the number

45:17

of connections triples to three. Four

45:20

fax machines can make six connections,

45:22

and twenty fax machines can make

45:24

one hundred and ninety different connections.

45:27

The value of a network increases

45:29

dramatically with just a small

45:32

increase to the number of nodes in the network.

45:34

So if a piece of information is introduced

45:36

to even a very niche social media

45:38

group and it is useful to that group,

45:41

it has the ability to reach an enormous

45:43

audience even without hitting a major

45:45

distribution network like a cable news

45:47

outlet or a celebrity with a massive

45:49

social media following.

45:51

I saw, however, many people want to share that

45:53

ten thousand people shared. That could actually

45:55

potentially reach a million people due

45:58

to the network of facts, and that's

46:00

another way that it goes viral. Is very so

46:02

local can go viral.

46:04

But perhaps the most assured way for a piece

46:06

of information to go viral is for it

46:08

to be shared by a major node,

46:10

a media outlet, or a person with a

46:12

massive following. This is how information

46:15

spreads rapidly throughout culture. If

46:17

a message is shared by a major node,

46:20

the chance of it reaching the mainstream increases

46:23

dramatically. And it's that little

46:25

piece of insight that explains so much

46:27

about why media and big tech are

46:29

working together to purge prominent voices

46:32

on social media that they don't like. Many

46:35

claim that the media and Silicon Valley are

46:37

working together to silence big name conservative

46:40

voices because they don't want to hear what they have

46:42

to say, and there is obvious truth

46:44

in that claim, but perhaps the bigger

46:46

reason the real goal behind silencing

46:49

prominent right wing voices is that they

46:51

are a major distribution centers for

46:53

the voices of Middle America.

47:00

CNN is not going to frequently share stories

47:03

about how illegal immigration or foreign

47:05

visas hurt the American worker, but

47:08

Alex Jones and Gavin McGinnis will

47:10

the media and their big tech comrades

47:13

want to control the flow of information. They

47:15

only want approved stories to be shared

47:18

throughout social media, so they eliminate

47:20

major nodes that propagate wrongthink

47:23

to control the narrative.

47:25

But then national things go viral when

47:28

there are a bunch of nodes pushing the information. And

47:30

these big tech companies know that, and

47:33

that's why they're banning network nodes like

47:35

Alex Jones. I dou't of view Alex Jones

47:37

as a person.

47:39

I view him as a network. Note he's a part of a network,

47:42

and he has now been isolated and cut out,

47:44

so therefore whatever he's saying can't

47:47

get out to other people and to other people. Now, this

47:49

is the real ominous

47:52

move that Facebook made. Even if you like

47:54

Alex Jones, you can't go onto

47:56

Facebook and say that you like him, so you can't

47:58

even share his information. Not only that,

48:00

you cannot share any positive information

48:03

from third parties about him. That's

48:05

how they're cutting people completely out of the network.

48:10

Which leads us back to the question how

48:12

does something go viral? A

48:15

primary reason why a story, video

48:17

message, or meme goes viral is because

48:20

some niche group views it as a useful

48:22

tool or weapon to further their cause.

48:25

That piece of information goes viral because

48:27

people want to share it. That may

48:30

sound like an obvious insight, but it's a

48:32

powerful one. Nonetheless, when

48:34

Fleckus made his videos that showed anti

48:37

Trump buffoons stumbling over the facts,

48:39

the Maga movement wanted to share the videos

48:42

because they could be used as a weapon against

48:44

their ideological foes, and

48:47

major nodes like The Blaze and Alex

48:49

Jones Info Wars shared the videos,

48:52

allowing them to go viral throughout Middle

48:54

America. When Andrew Meyers

48:56

Don't Tasee Mebro video went viral, both

48:59

the grassroots and the mainstream media

49:01

wanted to share it because it furthered each

49:03

of their causes, either highlighting police

49:06

brutality or driving viewership

49:08

to their networks through shock value.

49:10

When Mike Cernovich's Budapest investigation

49:12

went viral, Hungarians wanted to share

49:14

it because it became a weapon to fight back

49:16

against the fake news about the migrant

49:19

crisis. Things go viral

49:21

largely because they can be used as weapons

49:23

by one group to further their cause, so

49:25

they share it. As

49:31

we watch the media and big tech giants

49:33

collude to purge high profile users.

49:36

Keep in mind that they are not only trying

49:38

to silence the person they are deplatforming,

49:41

They are attempting to silence you. They

49:43

don't want your message finding its

49:46

way to an unapproved distribution

49:48

node with a large social media

49:50

following, because if it does and

49:52

get shared, they lose control

49:54

of the narrative and that just can't

49:57

be allowed to happen. They want to eliminate

49:59

so called low quality information, not

50:02

through vigorous and open debate, but

50:04

by ending your ability to someday

50:06

go viral. And you don't have to take my

50:09

word for it, believe the big tech giants

50:11

themselves.

50:12

We only have one message

50:15

for those who seek to push

50:18

hate, division and

50:20

violence. You have

50:22

no place on our platforms.

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