Crying While Eating

[voodoolily]

Saw this on Best Week Ever.

Funny, and fucked up in myriads ways. Very, very strange.

[Fabricated]

It's part of a viral marketing contest. Don't click.

[Evil Elvis]

http://www.eggwork.com/lunch/lunchpost.mov

[voodoolily]

It's part of a viral marketing contest. Don't click.

Marketing for what?

[Shockeye]

It's part of a viral marketing contest. Don't click.

Marketing for what?

Tears?

[voodoolily]

Mmm... the saltiness goes so good with ice cream. I munnuh buy me some of that! (That's not slang - I'm just typing phoenetically)

[Shockeye]

Mmm... the saltiness goes so good with ice cream. I munnuh buy me some of that! (That's not slang - I'm just typing phoenetically)

For someone so concerned with the proper usage of "it's" and "its", you sure like to make up words.

[voodoolily]

Oh, honey it's not just it's and its. It's MUCH worse than that. I've actually corrected signs on the street when they have incorrect apostrophe usage. I must be stopped.

Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.

[Shockeye]

Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.

If you could post a dictionary, it would be of immense help to all of us.

[voodoolily]

Maybe I will, Mr. Eye. Maybe I will.

I'm drinking a black Russian right now. Yummy. If I white Russian is a "caucasian", what's a black Russian?  A "beverage of color"?

[Fabricated]

I can't remember the website that's having the contest, but there's a viral marketing contest where he who gets the most hits and publicity wins cash. Crying While Eating is one, and another is the "Blogebrities" list which appeared on Slashdot.

[voodoolily]

Well, I don't know whose dick he had to suck, but it ended up on VH1, for what it's worth.

WHy didn't they just use porn?

[Samwise]

Porn wouldn't have ended up on VH1, and there's so much porn out there that no particular porn website stands much of a chance of being particularly famous.

[voodoolily]

I know porn wouldn't have ended up on VH1, silly! I was just commenting that Crying While Eating was, whereas the mention of a contest was not. I just assumed that to win a contest like that someone would've employed porn (Someone prolly has).

[Samwise]

The contest was to get the most media coverage though, right?  So the winning strategy would be to not let on that you were in a contest, and to come up with something that was family-friendly enough to not get censored, but unusual enough to compel people to talk about it.  If Crying While Eating ended up on VH1, I'd say it did the job better than porn would have.

That's the answer to your question about why they didn't just use porn.  It wouldn't have worked as well.   

[schild]

Ok. Finally clicked on the link. The videos are stupid. But the answers to "What are they crying about" is hilarious. What they're eating makes it even funnier.

What they're eating:
Coriander lobster bisque with Samuel Adams summer ale

What they're crying about:
They haven't lived up to each other's expectations

What she's eating:
Sausage with mushrooms and cheese; a vanilla shake

What she's crying about:
Good at lots of things, but not great at anything

What he's eating:
Grape nuts, honey and yogurt

What he's crying about:
Not in the loop anymore

Those 3 crack me up.

[voodoolily]

I completely agree with schild. Wait, what?

No the captions are what sells it, totally.

[Shockeye]

Here's a recap of Crying While Eating on Slate.

It's easy to look back and see why Crying, While Eating did so well, at least for a time. It's a simple concept. It's interactive. It makes you laugh and feel uncomfortable at the same time. But there are two parts to contagious media. You have to make something that people want to spread around, but unless you're as lucky as the Star Wars kid you also have to do a little of the spreading yourself. CwE got lots of free publicity because it was an entry in a contest; if Casimir and I tried to make another contagious site, we'd have to do that legwork for ourselves. I don't know if we could pull it off. It seems like a real pain in the ass.

While the "Panty Raiders" took home the $2,000 jackpot, we did come away with two $1,000 awards. Crying, While Eating won Eyebeam's Alexa Prize as the first entrant to crack the Web's 20,000 most popular sites and the Creative Commons Prize as the most-visited site covered by a free distribution license. Best of all, I got to take home a humongous, 4-foot-wide check. I thought about converting it into a coffee table, but I still owed my girlfriend a nice dinner. Now if I could only fit this thing through the front door at Nobu.

[schild]

We're going to break Alexa's top 20,000 soon. I wouldn't mind $1,000. Hell, I'd cry while eating $1,000.