"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family

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"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:27AM from the is-this-real-life? dept.

It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."

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Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by eldavojohn · 2010-06-30 03:27 · Score: 4, Insightful

This is the correct response when you become an instant global entertainer--not a $351,000 lawsuit. Or are you going to sue me now for teasing you about losing a lucrative merchandising opportunity?

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1. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by casings · 2010-06-30 03:29 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
2. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by MightyMartian · 2010-06-30 03:32 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  No, just 99% of us.
  
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3. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by eldavojohn · 2010-06-30 03:37 · Score: 2
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  Oh so you're telling me that he works for free as a lawyer now? Or is being a paid lawyer not a whore compared to putting your image on a T-shirt and selling it? I accept large sums of cash to arrange ones and zeros on electronic devices, am I whoring myself out for money?
  
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4. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by casings · 2010-06-30 03:38 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  If you don't want to have an intelligent discussion, why bother replying?
5. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Rifter13 · 2010-06-30 03:38 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  I would!
6. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by OttoErotic · 2010-06-30 03:44 · Score: 1
  
  It seemed like a pretty reasonable response to me. Is there such a difference between marketing your kid and selling your life 40 hours at a time that one is acceptable and the other is a whore?
  
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7. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by hedwards · 2010-06-30 03:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yes, there is when it's oneself the term is whore, when it's somebody else then it be Pimpin'.
8. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by kg8484 · 2010-06-30 03:54 · Score: 1
  
  The two situations are not analogous. As I understand it, Raza was made fun of in school after his video was passed around and then posted online. Something tells me David wasn't tormented quite like Ghyslain.
9. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 03:58 · Score: 0
  
  I'm gonna tell you what soul brother, can't nobody pimp you, but yo pimp ass self!
10. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 03:59 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  A lot of people who say they would never whore themselves out for money just haven't been seriously offered hard cash right there in front of them to whore themselves out.
  From the stories I've heard over my lifetime, the range seems to be $1,000 to $10,000.
  A girl I was talking to about this a few years ago said that a man once offered her $1,000 and she had an orgasm right there sitting in the chair in the bar.
  I think my figure is a bit higher. I have good circumstances so it would need to be high six figures.
  But who knows... confronted with a pile of $150k, tax free...
  
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11. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:07 · Score: 0
  
  You mean THEY would pay ME for sex?
  Where do I sign up?
12. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Dr.+Cody · 2010-06-30 04:14 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  It's the 1% who ruin it for the 99% of us.
13. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:24 · Score: 0
  
  No, that's not true. Everyone wants to whore themselves out for money. Every single person on this planet wants to whore themselves out for money.
  The only variable here is the amount of money.
14. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by ElectricTurtle · 2010-06-30 04:25 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There is an old anecdote attributed to Winston Churchill (though unlikely something he actually did):
  
  Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
  Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill Well, I suppose we would have to discuss terms, of course
  Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
  Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
  Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
  
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15. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:31 · Score: 0
  
  More importantly, we don't know anything about *David's response* yet - just the parents willingness to make money out of their kid's portrayal under drugs. We don't even know if he's on board with the whole thing, or if he's just too young to have a say about this.
16. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by guru42101 · 2010-06-30 04:31 · Score: 1
  
  Also, David and his family are profiting from the video. Ghyslain is not, in my opinion it would be a wiser move to sue the individuals who posted it to youtube for any profits they made off of it.
17. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Rogerborg · 2010-06-30 04:36 · Score: 1
  
  David and his family are choosing to profiting from the video. Ghyslain chose not to
  Fixed that for you.
  
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18. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by need4mospd · 2010-06-30 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, the other 5% of us aren't that smart.
19. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:12 · Score: 0
  
  #351,000 > $150,000
20. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:27 · Score: 0
  
  Where do I flassh the leg? I'll whore myself for that much money.
  Maybe not the kids, but...
21. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:31 · Score: 0
  
  I'm a punk rocker. I'm all against selling out, probably more than you. If I had an opportunity to make money like this I would, there's nothing wrong with it.
22. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Junior+J.+Junior+III · 2010-06-30 05:32 · Score: 1
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  Ghyslain does, he's a lawyer now.
  
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23. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by SeaFox · 2010-06-30 05:41 · Score: 1
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  Yup, and David didn't get a choice I notice.
  Just Pops there taking advantage of a drugged minor. Then uses him as a cash cow so he can quit his regular job.
  Sleazy parents are sleazy.
24. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by ffejie · 2010-06-30 05:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  am I to assume that he either found or invented a form of human suspended animation and put himself in it until recently, when he was unfrozen, given a law degree, and started practicing law
  Oh my, this sounds like a wonderful idea for a show. Former internet sensation gets frozen and given a law degree and then unthawed millions of years in the future. It would go something like this...
  
  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and was later thawed by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes when I fly to Europe on the Concorde, I wonder, am I inside some sort of giant bird? Am I gonna be digested? I don't know, because I'm a caveman, and that's the way I think! When I'm courtside at a Knicks game, I wonder if the ball is some sort of food they're fighting over. When I see my image on the security camera at the country club, I wonder, are they stealing my soul? I get so upset, I hop out of my Range Rover, and run across the fairway to to the clubhouse, where I get Carlos to make me one of those martinis he's so famous for, to soothe my primitive caveman brain. But whatever world you're from, I do know one thing - in the 20 years from March 22nd, 1972, when he first ordered that extra nicotine be put into his product, until February 25th, 1992, when he issued an inter-office memorandum stopping the addition of that nicotine, my client was legally insane. And, for that reason, I ask that you find him.. not guilty. Thank you.
  
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25. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Yvanhoe · 2010-06-30 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  That's not something you do, that something that happens. Fighting it is ridiculous.
  
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26. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Feyshtey · 2010-06-30 05:45 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  This guy rakes in a ton of cash because people buy useless crap related to a complete stranger, and he's a whore? I'd say he was just smart enough to exploit the stupidity of people with more money than brains.
  
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27. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:52 · Score: 0
  
  I remember this interview with MC Hammer. A record exec approached him and said, "we want you to wear these pants." MC Hammer said, "I'm not wearing those pants." The exec says, "will you wear these pants for a million dollars?" http://www.google.com/images?q=hammer+pants Of course he did.
28. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2010-06-30 05:59 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  But who knows... confronted with a pile of $150k, tax free...
  Effectively this is exactly what actual prostitutes are confronted with every single day. And this is the problem with adopting the position that prostitution is always wrong.
  You can say its demeaning, or that greed should not justify selling yourself to others for the evening. But the reality is that most professional prostitutes earn more money doing what they do than they could otherwise. When you make prostitution illegal, you effectively tell these people that they must give up their better paying positions and take on often far lower paying ones simply because you disapprove of what they do.
  You're free to disapprove, but is it right to take away someones income for that reason alone? Going back to the topic, these people have made money out of this internet video. A lot of money in fact, that can be used to give a better life to David and the rest of his family. If we claim that David's misfortune is being exploited and that this shouldn't be allowed, will it be right to take away the benefits that this video brought to spare feelings?
  Who should be making these decisions? Society or individuals?
  
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29. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2010-06-30 06:07 · Score: 1
  
  . confronted with a pile of $150k, tax free...
  Why on earth would it be tax-free?
  
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30. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by epp_b · 2010-06-30 06:09 · Score: 1
  
  This is the correct response when you become an instant global entertainer--not a $351,000 lawsuit. Or are you going to sue me now for teasing you about losing a lucrative merchandising opportunity?
  He became a lawyer, what did you expect to happen?
31. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by cromar · 2010-06-30 06:19 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Sir, I have 1999 on the phone. They're calling in regards to wanting their cracker catchphrases back.
32. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Surt · 2010-06-30 06:19 · Score: 1
  
  It's not just that we disapprove of what they do. There are public health consequences that cost us tax dollars. What you do behind closed doors often leaks out into public financing, and when it does, it is no longer just 'your business'.
  
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33. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Surt · 2010-06-30 06:21 · Score: 1
  
  So, he's supposed to be stupid, and take the $150K rather than the $350K? 200K is a lot of financial incentive to file the lawsuit.
  
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34. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by geekoid · 2010-06-30 06:31 · Score: 1
  
  Not true.
  Legalized prostitution has ways to minimize those effects, illegal prostitution does not.
  You go to any legal brothel in Nevada, and there are health codes they have to comply with.
  Testing, who can be there, and so on.
  If it's legal you could add a health tax to it as well.
  If it's legal the women are choosing to be there, not smacked around and forced to be there.
  Legalizing Brothels would end abuse, remove it from the streets, and remove the other criminal elements that surround illegal activities.
  
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35. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Krahar · 2010-06-30 06:31 · Score: 1
  
  Health consequences are not sufficient to outlaw prostitution, and I've never heard that as the main argument to do so. The main argument is that the prostitutes shouldn't be doing that because it's not a nice thing to do for them.
36. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 06:32 · Score: 0
  
  And this is the problem with adopting the position that prostitution is always wrong
  I wish people just stopped saying that. It's _not_ wrong.
  Slavery is wrong. Exploitation of prostitution is wrong. Prostitution itself (obviously between consenting adults only) is NOT. It's often called "the oldest job in the world" for a good reason and you could even stretch the concept of marriage to loosely fit the description of prostitution.
  Stop considering prostitution itself wrong, and if $RELIGION insists it is, you might want to reconsider your allegiance to those who expect to intrude aspects of your life they should normally have no damn business with.
  ...and now, to prove we're ultimately all slaves to this society and its rules, no matter how baroque or stupid, I'll tick the Post Anonymously flag, lest this stuff pops up in a job-related background check 3 years from now and fucks me.
  or maybe not.
37. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by geekoid · 2010-06-30 06:34 · Score: 1
  
  SO when yo do something that becomes wildly popular, you don't want to make a few bucks? seriously,. there isn't anything wrong with that.
  Here is a hint: You have whored yourself out a few time during your life.
  
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38. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by geekoid · 2010-06-30 06:40 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  It was an intelligent point. You just tried to deflect it with a implied ad hom.
  Are you capable of holding a reasonable discussion with out resulting to logical fallacies?
  Do you do work for money? How is that not whoring yourself out any more then what this fellow did?
  
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39. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by geekoid · 2010-06-30 06:41 · Score: 1
  
  Everything tastes better when it sits on a Ritz!
  
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40. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by jedidiah · 2010-06-30 06:43 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Most of the 99% don't stoop nearly this low.
  "Whoring" really captures what's going on. Actually, "pimping" might be more accurate.
  
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41. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by jedidiah · 2010-06-30 06:47 · Score: 1
  
  > Health consequences are not sufficient to outlaw prostitution,
  It was good enough for spitting on the sidewalk.
  At one time, spitting was far more dangerous than sexual promiscuity and AIDS. This is not an issue without precedent.
  
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42. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by debest · 2010-06-30 06:48 · Score: 1
  
  This has also been attributed to George Bernard Shaw and Mark Twain. Agreed, Churchill seems pretty unlikely to have been the one to say this.
  
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43. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by gknoy · 2010-06-30 06:50 · Score: 1
  
  Even if it were taxed, it's more than double what I make. Now if only kid would do something funny while I have a camera rolling. :)
44. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by anagama · 2010-06-30 07:00 · Score: 1
  
  I'm thinking if it was legalized, there would be a widening of the price range into lower tiers -- there is some part of the current price structure related to the risk of illegal activity. This illegal activity bonus probably boosts the revenues of otherwise lower-rent prostitutes.
  
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45. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by anagama · 2010-06-30 07:02 · Score: 1
  
  He was a realtor -- is there anything much more sleazy than home sales and financing?
  
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46. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by asdf7890 · 2010-06-30 07:17 · Score: 1
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  I really wouldn't want to myself, but if I were propelled in that position common sense says "take advantage while you can, then fade back into blissful obscurity when it all passes", rather than "spend piles on an expensive set of legal arguments that might leave you even more publicly exposed and will almost definitely leave you less financially well-off".
47. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 07:28 · Score: 0
  
  So, he's supposed to be stupid, and take the $150K rather than the $350K? 200K is a lot of financial incentive to file the lawsuit.
  Hint: he didn't get $350k. Also, the royalties on David After Dentist aren't all in yet, duh.
48. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by noc007 · 2010-06-30 07:35 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Came here to post that. Seriously, everyone has their price. I find it funny when someone wont acknowledge that they are a whore or at least have a price. Walk up to any person on the street, present them with a large sum of cash, make an offer to exchange the cash for something from them, and they'd seriously consider it and may even take the offer if they feel it's worth it to them.
  casings, to expound on Maxo-Texas' post, take for example a young legal-adult lady with strong religious convictions to save her virginity for marriage. Offer her $5 million in tangible cash she could count on the spot to have sex with a dirty old man; she will seriously consider it. If she turns it down, offer her $500 million in cash and I'd wager she'd accept.
  Story time:
  I frequent an enthusiast forum for a specific car brand. Obviously the majority of active members are heterosexual males. One of the people that frequented the board was a chick who's career was modeling; on her website it stated what types of modling she did, including "tasteful nudes", and had a portfolio of her work. There were some shots of her clothed but in prvocative poses next to her car of the same car brand and these ended up being posted by her or someone else on to the enthusiast forum. Obviously those threads went down the path of comments of how hot she was and other generalized intercourse statements. She bitched about about how those kinds of threads always ended up becoming a "meat fest". I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that the modeling she does is only for innocent artistic value, but I didn't expect the offending comments to be anything different given the demographic. Through the various posts of her picutures people did over time, at some point, someone identified her porn stage name and a simple search revealed a number of hardcore porn videos of her.
  What I found hard to understand was her disgust over the typical "meat fest" that ensued over her in provocative pictures, yet she does porn. She can't be truly ignorant to the fact that millions of 13yo boys to wrinkly old men jerk it to those videos. I suppose I could accept it being her right to be offended at the reaction her pictures and videos create, but in my book it's moronic for her to be offended and she shouldn't expect anything less, especially from paying customers that fund her.
49. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by hedwards · 2010-06-30 08:04 · Score: 1
  
  Tell them to hold, 1984's on the phone and they've got Michael Jackson live.
50. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 08:45 · Score: 0
  
  Amen to that.
  My seven year-old son had minor surgery a few years back and ended up much the same way as little David. There was no way in hell I was going to exploit him, or shatter his trust in me over a few measly dollars.
51. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Kitkoan · 2010-06-30 08:47 · Score: 1
  
  Your also forgetting not every price is in money. As your mentioning of the girl being offered $1000 at a bar, $1000 might have been the right price considering the other part of the price being it wasn't going to be video taped and made public. If it was to be taped and made public I have a good feeling she might have at least demanded more money. And for some people, the thought of it going public and what that will do for them and their future might make them 'unpurchasable'.
  
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52. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by illumin8 · 2010-06-30 08:51 · Score: 1
  
  Ok, now you got me curious- you better link to said forum posts... :-)
  
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53. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by SleazyRidr · 2010-06-30 09:02 · Score: 1
  
  Well, suing got more than double the 150k these guys made, so who's the stupid one?
  
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54. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Danse · 2010-06-30 09:13 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Medicine has advanced tremendously since then. Health issues are not the problem. If that were the problem, we'd outlaw fast food and half the stuff in the grocery store.
  
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55. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Danse · 2010-06-30 09:16 · Score: 1
  
  He was a realtor -- is there anything much more sleazy than home sales and financing?
  Lawyer, lobbyist, congressperson...
  
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56. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 09:22 · Score: 0
  
  I don't know that it's so black and white. Obviously any time there's a kid involved you have to look at whether he's being exploited by the parents, or whether they're genuinely trying to do the best for him. Good people can have different views on parenting. From the very little information available in the article, it sounds like they might genuinely think this is best for him. Consider:
  If they save some of that $150,000, it'll go a long way towards the kid's education.
  Just as importantly, it sounds like the money has helped the father spend more time with his son. There are a lot of kids who barely see their fathers because they're stuck working a lot of overtime to keep the family afloat. If this means the kid gets more quality time with his dad.... that's not a bad thing.
57. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 09:41 · Score: 1
  
  There are public health consequences to "ladies nights" at bars.
  People have sex. Often.
  
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58. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 09:46 · Score: 1
  
  Do you think people who sell themselves for cash declare all of their income on their IRS forms?
  
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59. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 09:51 · Score: 1
  
  And it is also about semantics and favors the wealthy.
  If you cover living expenses for your girlfriend (food, lodging, travel), it's not prostitution.
  Even if she's only your girlfriend for the current semester.
  If you take a girl out on a date at a $175 a person restaurant and have sex with her... it's not prostitution.
  Expensive gifts.. nope.
  It's really a very restricted set of "money for sex" behaviors which count as prostitution.
  Something about the short duration and multiple boyfriends plays apart-- but even there some women have multiple male sex partners, who spend money on them, but no one considers it prostitution.
  
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60. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 09:55 · Score: 1
  
  It could be having sex with strangers... but no- women have sex with guys they only met in the last hour. (it's even frequent in some contexts).
  It very clearly depends on the intent of both parties. It's almost a thought crime.
  
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61. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Surt · 2010-06-30 10:00 · Score: 1
  
  That's why those are illegal in a growing number of states.
  
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62. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 10:03 · Score: 0
  
  Seconded - would love to see the hypocritical porn actress get fucked.
63. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 10:07 · Score: 0
  
  Well, suing got more than double the 150k these guys made, so who's the stupid one?
  Hint: he didn't get $350k. Also, the royalties on David After Dentist aren't all in yet, duh.
64. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by IICV · 2010-06-30 10:14 · Score: 1
  
  To be specific: $150,000 is enough for about sixteen years of world-class education at the Universities of California - including food and board.
65. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 10:15 · Score: 0
  
  The kid's father was a realtor .
  Whores and pimps everywhere are horribly offended that anybody would accuse them of stooping to the level of a realtor!
66. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by noc007 · 2010-06-30 10:17 · Score: 1
  
  One of these days, this is going to bite me in the ass. If you're interested in her posts about being offended, they're either blackholed due to the flamewar or are unavailable presently due to the forum migration. If you're interested in the offending pictures, I'm not going to do the dirty work for you, but how about a refined Google search? I recommend at least results one and seven. Result One Post Four had the offending pictures, but they aren't hosted anymore. Result Seven does have a couple of the pictures, but they aren't on the first page.
  Please keep in mind that the VW Vortex forums were recently forced to move to vBulliten from ZeroForum and not everything is available, like all of Result Seven, but can be had by either opening the Google Cache of it or replacing "zerothread?cmd=print&id=" with "showthread.php?". Do some searching with her name and "VW" and/or "R32" and you'll come across the offending pics
67. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by multipartmixed · 2010-06-30 10:38 · Score: 1
  
  Am I the only one who thinks it's ironic that your forum is Powered by LItespeed?
  
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68. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 11:35 · Score: 0
  
  So - if I offered David's daddy some...er...bones...for something else, something a bit edgy, racey, and if David said 'yeth' - would this make it OK?
  BTW - I know this is comparing monkeys and chimps, starfish and trout. In addition, I don't really have a problem w/daddio & fam profiting from the video.
  I just don't like the dad. I don't like the way he talks to his kid in that patronizing, sing-song voice. He sounds like a real douche-bag. Hmmm--- wonder if he has a 'douche-patch'. Of course, the dad, judging by his voice, is probably in his mid 20's to mid 30's. Bet he's hot - judging by his son's spectacularly cute bone structure and lack of pudge. I'd like a roll around with that daddio - some of the ol' in and out as the youth say.
  I _would_ have to drug David's daddy - given how I'm all old and warty - it's the only way I get any now'a'days.
69. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Arancaytar · 2010-06-30 11:49 · Score: 1
  
  If he actually got the 351k he sued for instead of 150k in revenue, then the lawsuit would have been the right choice. :P
70. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Khashishi · 2010-06-30 12:42 · Score: 1
  
  But whoring your son out for money, that's gravy..
71. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by NitroWolf · 2010-06-30 14:30 · Score: 1
  
  It's not just that we disapprove of what they do. There are public health consequences that cost us tax dollars. What you do behind closed doors often leaks out into public financing, and when it does, it is no longer just 'your business'.
  The public health consequences are a direct result of the laws making it illegal. If prostitution were legalized, licensed and taxed properly, the health consequences go from a drawback to a net asset.
  So no, your reasoning is completely flawed. There may be other reasons to outlaw prostitution (though I can't think of a legitimate one), but health concerns are not it.
72. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-06-30 15:20 · Score: 1
  
  Lol. Ladies nights are illegal because of health concerns?
  Perhaps for discrimination reasons but not health concerns.
  
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73. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 15:52 · Score: 0
  
  Stephanie Sadorra is her model name, her porn name is Jenni Lee. She has done quite a bit of work.
  
  Posting AC for obvious reasons.
74. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by ewertz · 2010-06-30 16:16 · Score: 0
  
  Whoa -- where do *you* live? Whoring is for attention, not money. Attention is the contemporary currency. Hasn't hip-hop and reality TV taught you anything?
75. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by TapeCutter · 2010-06-30 16:25 · Score: 1
  
  The health thing is just pure bullshit. There are hundereds of regualted, clean, tax paying brothels in my city, your average bar is more of a health issue than your average brothel.
  
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76. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by PCM2 · 2010-06-30 21:42 · Score: 1
  
  A girl I was talking to about this a few years ago said that a man once offered her $1,000 and she had an orgasm right there sitting in the chair in the bar.
  ...and then said, "YOINK!!!", grabbed the cash, and walked right out of the bar.
  
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77. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by PCM2 · 2010-06-30 21:49 · Score: 1
  
  But who knows... confronted with a pile of $150k, tax free...
  Effectively this is exactly what actual prostitutes are confronted with every single day
  Ummmm... actually, most "actual prostitutes" earn exactly nothing from prostitution. All of their income goes to drugs, or is held by a pimp, or both. I get so sick of this idea that prostitutes are somehow empowered, "sex positive" women who are in charge of their own destinies. For the vast majorities of prostitutes, this is not the case. Prostitutes are psychologically damaged women who are abused and manipulated by men. Almost every "actual prostitute" has experienced physical battery, either from a pimp or a john. Among the risks of the "profession" are disfiguring injury, sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), and death by murder. Prostitution is not a "victimless crime." The prostitutes are the victims.
  
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78. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 22:26 · Score: 0
  
  Tell me about it! Some people they can't even subtract 99% from 100%!
79. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by pinkushun · 2010-07-01 02:53 · Score: 1
  
  *phew* - All this calling of whores is making me... so hot! yeah call me a dirty little....!
80. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by SleazyRidr · 2010-07-01 03:03 · Score: 1
  
  He's hardly going to become the next Mickey Mouse, these things don't last long. The family did the right thing by cashing in quick.
  
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81. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Maxo-Texas · 2010-07-01 04:32 · Score: 1
  
  Most I've known didn't turn out that way.
  I met them socially through ultimate, everquest (!?!), and massage (I'm a massage therapist).
  Two had daddy issues. All were drug users and one had a severe drug issue that cost her a good job. One was a love addict (narcissist). None had pimps. All had netted at least enough money to buy houses ($100kish). None were active any more and had settled down to "day jobs" as accountants, clerks, and massage therapists. Two were married and the husbands knew about their past. Both cheated on their husbands.
  All had issues connecting emotionally in relationships and were fun as friends but you got the feeling they had a mask and were acting at times. I judged that they would be very dangerous to get involved with (get your heart ripped out... ala "Roxanne").
  All had had at least three children and had given one or more children up for adoption.
  I felt the job caused two of them problems while the third I felt was probably messed up before the job. One distinct difference for all of them vs the type you talk about is that they had been able to choose who they slept with (for the most part). But all had probably slept with hundreds (if not thousands) of men.
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  I think saying, "Prostitutes are psychologically damaged women who are abused and manipulated by men." is completely unfair and at most only speaks of a subset of the profession. And I think that occurs because it is currently illegal.
  I think prostitution varies from the street hooker pulling in tiny amounts of money, being beaten, getting sick, etc as you say to the mid range girls who make six figure plus annual incomes, live well to the high end elliot spitzer type girls who apparently pull in thousands of dollars at a time. I think if it were legal, the low end would not be so nasty, there would be regular health checks, and pimps would go out of business the same way drug lords would if pot and cocaine were legalized (relatively tiny markets for the other drugs).
  I respect your opinion and think it is valid for a large slice of prostitutes.
  The fact that prostitution is illegal has not reduce the frequency of prostitution however. I still see streetwalkers occasionally in this day of craigslist and who knows what other methods folks use to hook up.
  
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82. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by kalirion · 2010-07-01 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  A girl I was talking to about this a few years ago said that a man once offered her $1,000 and she had an orgasm right there sitting in the chair in the bar.
  Just offering a girl money can get her to orgasm? Damn, I've been doing it wrong all these years!
83. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-01 06:08 · Score: 0
  
  Clearly you are one of those 5%
84. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2010-07-01 09:38 · Score: 1
  
  I'm sure this guy did, as all the money would have been reported via 1099s.
  But regardless of if you commit a felony to steal money from the government, it's taxable income.
  
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85. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-02 05:42 · Score: 0
  
  YES! YES!
86. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-02 07:32 · Score: 0
  
  you could even stretch the concept of marriage to loosely fit the description of prostitution
  I disagree. It is not neither a stretch nor a loose fit at all.
87. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? by gstoddart · 2010-07-08 08:20 · Score: 1
  
  Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
  What else would you whore yourself out for, cheese??
  However, I agree, quitting your job to sell t-shirts of your kid seems short-sighted.
  
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lulz by Pojut · 2010-06-30 03:29 · Score: 4, Funny

"IS IT GONNA BE THIS WAY FOREVER????"
I know what you mean, kid...I know what you mean.

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1. Re:lulz by xaxa · 2010-06-30 07:23 · Score: 1
  
  "IS IT GONNA BE THIS WAY FOREVER????"
  I know what you mean, kid...I know what you mean.
  I think the dad's an idiot for not realising his son isn't enjoying it. The boy doesn't understand what's going on, and is worried -- dad just thinks its cool.
2. Re:lulz by Pojut · 2010-06-30 07:45 · Score: 1
  
  Whatever. Short of hitting the kid on the noggin and knocking him out, there was nothing the Dad could do other than sit back and let him ride the Stimutacs.
  
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3. Re:lulz by city · 2010-06-30 07:46 · Score: 1
  
  I once took too many mushrooms and had a similar experience where I asked myself the same question over and over for god knows how long, having lost the ability to judge time and in some ways even judging the direction of time.
  
  At least my friends were reasonable enough to console me through the experience and not laugh at me while recording me and posting it on youtube. Guy was totally harshing that kids trip.
  
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4. Re:lulz by forkazoo · 2010-06-30 10:27 · Score: 1
  
  Meh. The dad was borderline. He told the kid it wasn't going to last forever. He made sure the kid didn't stick his fingers in his mouth to bother the dental work. He explained that it was because of the medicine. It's also quite possible that all of this was explained to the kid repeatedly before the video, and he just wasn't in a state where repeating it was going to make it sink in. The day could certainly have been a little more sensitive, and I'm sure a lot of people out there could have done a better job of keeping the kid happy. But, I can't really fault the guy.
The real question... by novadragoon · 2010-06-30 03:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Is this real life?
1. Re:The real question... by kg8484 · 2010-06-30 03:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Is this just fantasy?
2. Re:The real question... by Pojut · 2010-06-30 03:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  caught in a landslide
  
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3. Re:The real question... by lpp · 2010-06-30 03:46 · Score: 1
  
  Caught in a landslide
4. Re:The real question... by jlp2097 · 2010-06-30 03:46 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  no escape from reality
5. Re:The real question... by shatfield · 2010-06-30 03:47 · Score: 1
  
  Life is just a fantasy...
  
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6. Re:The real question... by Soilworker · 2010-06-30 03:48 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Open your eyes
7. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 03:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  look up to the skies
8. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 03:52 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  and see....
9. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 03:52 · Score: 0
  
  Look up to the skies and see
10. Re:The real question... by RulerOf · 2010-06-30 03:53 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
  
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11. Re:The real question... by Andy+Dodd · 2010-06-30 03:57 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  easy come, easy go
  
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12. Re:The real question... by jockeys · 2010-06-30 04:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Because I'm easy come, easy go
  
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13. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:04 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  little high
14. Re:The real question... by HeckRuler · 2010-06-30 04:04 · Score: 1
  
  Little high, little low,
15. Re:The real question... by sirrunsalot · 2010-06-30 04:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Little high, little low
16. Re:The real question... by sirrunsalot · 2010-06-30 04:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Seems we're running into problems as more people get on board and things start to bifurcate, but It's worth the effort as long as we get to the guitar solo!
17. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
18. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:13 · Score: 0
  
  Any way the wind blows
19. Re:The real question... by c0mpliant · 2010-06-30 04:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Any way the wind blows
  
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20. Re:The real question... by Bemopolis · 2010-06-30 04:35 · Score: 1
  
  This comment thread doesn't really matter to me.
  
  TOOOOO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
  
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21. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:40 · Score: 0
  
  doesn't really matter
22. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:41 · Score: 0
  
  Mama..... Just Killed a man...
23. Re:The real question... by 2obvious4u · 2010-06-30 04:44 · Score: 1
  
  Na N-Na N-Na-Naa
24. Re:The real question... by 19thNervousBreakdown · 2010-06-30 04:59 · Score: 1
  
  Put a gun against his head
  
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25. Re:The real question... by omarius · 2010-06-30 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Uh, oh. Leave it to some open source-oriented site to fork "Bohemian Rhapsody."
26. Re:The real question... by fbjon · 2010-06-30 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  ..where stormtroopers start headbanging.
  
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27. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:23 · Score: 0
  
  Only a little?
28. Re:The real question... by coldtone · 2010-06-30 05:24 · Score: 1
  
  and see
29. Re:The real question... by Andy+Dodd · 2010-06-30 05:31 · Score: 1
  
  pulled the trigger now he's dead
  
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30. Re:The real question... by owlstead · 2010-06-30 05:35 · Score: 1
  
  As the original was a merge of different songs, maybe the result will start and make sense :)
31. Re:The real question... by Minwee · 2010-06-30 05:38 · Score: 1
  
  To meeeeeeee
32. Re:The real question... by gsmalleus · 2010-06-30 05:47 · Score: 1
  
  I'm just a poor boy
33. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 16:48 · Score: 0
  
  come on, guys. even on reddit this would be downboated
Abusing children now profitable? by tekrat · 2010-06-30 03:35 · Score: 0, Troll

So now we all know what step #3 is...
#1) Do something stupid, or watch someone else do something stupid
#2) Video it.
#3) Post to Youtube
#4) PROFIT!!!!
But the question is: Are you getting a signed release? How much are you going to spend in visits to the shrink after your kid is emotionally scarred by being an internet celebrity? And when Tosh.0 visits you for a web redemption, how are you going to get out of it?

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1. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by scorp1us · 2010-06-30 03:37 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Jackass.
  
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2. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by Zerth · 2010-06-30 03:44 · Score: 1
  
  I'll be amused if the kid, later in life, sues his parents for half the money.
3. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by hedwards · 2010-06-30 03:48 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  You mean all the money. Considering that this was presumably done without his permission, I doubt very much that the limit is that low. I suspect that he could get all the money. Which in my view he's entitled to, the money was made solely upon his embarrassment, I don't think it would be a hard sell to demand all of it.
4. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 03:51 · Score: 0
  
  The kid has already been on Tosh 2.0.
5. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by thijsh · 2010-06-30 03:54 · Score: 1
  
  Wouldn't be surprised... and during the trial all the skeletons come out of the closet and the little kid tells the judge that 'daddy gave me some pills and a shot whiskey to chase it down after we came from the dentist...'. You'll be amazed what some of these fucking assholes do to their own spawn just for some attention/power/money. This shit occurs so often they even identify it as a true child-abusing syndrome like MSbP.
6. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:29 · Score: 0
  
  You mean all the money. Considering that this was presumably done without his permission, I doubt very much that the limit is that low. I suspect that he could get all the money. Which in my view he's entitled to, the money was made solely upon his embarrassment, I don't think it would be a hard sell to demand all of it.
  You do realize that the child cannot legally give permission. The permission has to come from the parents.
7. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by hedwards · 2010-06-30 05:17 · Score: 1
  
  I do, but the permission isn't unlimited. You're not allowed, at least in the US, to sell your children or give permission to a child molester. Those are extreme yes, but look at what happened to the star wars kid from a few years back. Or the Numa Numa guy.
8. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by WNight · 2010-06-30 06:05 · Score: 1
  
  Or the Numa Numa guy.
  You mean how he got famous and made a lot of money?
  This video of this kid is no worse than anything shown on America's Funniest Home Videos. Better in that nobody gets hurt as the butt of the joke.
9. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by drsmithy · 2010-06-30 07:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'll be amused if the kid, later in life, sues his parents for half the money.
  With any luck, the parents would then sue back for all the money they spent raising him.
10. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by magarity · 2010-06-30 09:35 · Score: 1
  
  Or the Numa Numa guy
  
  His CPUs had to access memory in different banks?
11. Re:Abusing children now profitable? by hedwards · 2010-06-30 09:45 · Score: 1
  
  Umm, in both cases the individuals were horribly traumatized and had to go through extensive treatment to recover from it. It wasn't just a matter of being mocked by everybody in school, it was a case of being mocked worldwide.
Finally! by chameleon3 · 2010-06-30 03:36 · Score: 2, Informative

finally, we can fill in the rest!

1. Record a video of your drugged 7 year-old.

2. ?????^H^H^H^H^HExploit him by putting video on Youtube.

3. Profit!

I've been searching for that second step for ages....
1. Re:Finally! by gr8_phk · 2010-06-30 04:34 · Score: 1
  
  Apparently AFV has been under paying for home videos for quite a while. Screw TV, do it yourself on YouTube.
2. Re:Finally! by FirstTimeCaller · 2010-06-30 05:11 · Score: 1
  
  1. Record a video of your drugged 7 year-old.
  2. ?????^H^H^H^H^HExploit him by putting video on Youtube.
  3. Profit!
  I've been searching for that second step for ages....
  You mean you'd been sitting on the first step for a long time and you couldn't figure out the second one?!? Dude, seriously.
  
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3. Re:Finally! by Itninja · 2010-06-30 06:58 · Score: 1
  
  More like:
  1: Record a video of your 7 year-old acting funny while under the fading influence of necessary sedatives.
  
  2: Save it for a while
  
  3: Put it up on this "youToob' you've heard so much about because everyone who had seen it at your home thought it was cute
  
  4: See it's getting a monster amount a traffic
  
  5: Say 'Holeee crap! Is this a check from YouTube?!'
  
  6: Keep the profit party going by then exploiting your whacked out 7-year-old
  
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4. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 08:04 · Score: 0
  
  whoosh
College Fund by RafaelAngel · 2010-06-30 03:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Hopefully this will amount to a nice college fund for the kid. But in reality, the parents will use all the money to buy TVs and a car. I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
Also, this kid is gonna have to live with this for the rest of his life.
1. Re:College Fund by RobDude · 2010-06-30 03:49 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  He was a real-estate agent in Fl....so I mean, not exactly a big loss there.
  My brother in-law was a real-estate agent who didn't make a sale for a solid 18 months before he quit. Can you really call it 'quitting' if you haven't received a check in 18 months?
  I dunno if this guy was in a similar situation, but the market in FL is supposed to suck pretty bad from what I hear.
2. Re:College Fund by Deadstick · 2010-06-30 03:49 · Score: 1
  
  Hopefully this will amount to a nice college fund for the kid. But in reality, the parents will use all the money to buy TVs and a car.
  In California, I suspect the Jackie Coogan Law would have kicked in to prevent the parents blowing the money...not in Florida.
  rj
3. Re:College Fund by pak9rabid · 2010-06-30 03:55 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  I can't believe the father quit his job over this.
  Uh..not like that's really a job. Realtor's generally make their own hours and work whenever they see fit. Worse comes to worse he just picks up where he left off.
4. Re:College Fund by muckracer · 2010-06-30 03:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  > Hopefully this will amount to a nice college fund for the kid.
  > But in reality, the parents will use all the money to buy TVs and a car.
  150k will easily pay for the 1000 hours of therapy he'll need in a few years...
5. Re:College Fund by Ruvim · 2010-06-30 04:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, free booze will be guaranteed to him at any party! I am concerned...
6. Re:College Fund by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:11 · Score: 0
  
  Real Estate agent in Florida.... I'm guessing he's not high on the IQ food chain.
  Most of the good agents got the heck out of dodge 2 years ago when all of florida real Estate tanked so hard that most places lost close to 60% of their value.
7. Re:College Fund by bgarcia · 2010-06-30 05:13 · Score: 1
  
  I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
  Dude, if you had a one-time opportunity to earn $150k, wouldn't you consider quitting your job for a year or so to make it happen? You can always get another job when that opportunity stops paying dividends.
  
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8. Re:College Fund by just+fiddling+around · 2010-06-30 05:15 · Score: 1
  
  You missed something: dad was in *residential real estate*. That's probably equivalent to "jobless" these days anyway.
  
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9. Re:College Fund by Jaysyn · 2010-06-30 05:58 · Score: 1
  
  It does... unless you are looking to buy!
  
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One can only hope... by soulsteal · 2010-06-30 03:42 · Score: 2, Insightful

that they put some away in a 529 plan to pay for his future education!
1. Re:One can only hope... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:21 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Forget that. Hire the kid as an actor and put the money in a Roth Ira. No-tax mega bucks on retirement.
2. Re:One can only hope... by Culture20 · 2010-06-30 05:01 · Score: 1
  
  Hire the kid as an actor and put the money in a Roth Ira. No-tax mega bucks on retirement.
  Moderators: Don't forget to read below 1.
3. Re:One can only hope... by Nimey · 2010-06-30 07:55 · Score: 1
  
  My parents invested in a 419 plan and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!
  
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4. Re:One can only hope... by IdolizingStewie · 2010-06-30 09:37 · Score: 1
  
  It would only take 30 years to get the $150k in $5k at a time.
And in 6 months time? by OzPeter · 2010-06-30 03:42 · Score: 1, Insightful

So what is he going to do in 6 months time when this little bit of internet trivia gets lost in the next big thing (tm)?? Will he schedule surgery for his kid? Or back to the dentist? Or will he realize that this was all a flash-in-the-pan and its back to a real job to support his family? And I wonder what the IRS thinks about all of this!

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1. Re:And in 6 months time? by JSBiff · 2010-06-30 03:50 · Score: 1
  
  Exactly my thoughts. $150k is a nice windfall - put some of it into a college fund for the kid, and the rest into an investment fund and let it get some interest.
  But, a one-time Internet success does not a career make. You can't live off $150k for the rest of your life, and as the parent points out, it's unlikely the father will be able to reliably create additional Internet video revenue on that scale.
  This sounds like another family heading down the path of "Balloon boy" - staging ever more elaborate stunts until they do something which either causes them to be arrested, sued, or simply have public opinion turn against them and they lose all marketability.
2. Re:And in 6 months time? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:00 · Score: 0
  
  So what is he going to do in 6 months time when this little bit of internet trivia gets lost in the next big thing (tm)?? Will he schedule surgery for his kid? Or back to the dentist? Or will he realize that this was all a flash-in-the-pan and its back to a real job to support his family? And I wonder what the IRS thinks about all of this!
  I expect he'll just go back to real estate. Not like he's going to have to retrain to do that; at most he might have to be re-licensed if he should let his real estate license lapse. As for the IRS, well as long as he declares his income and pays his taxes they really don't give a rat's ass what he does.
3. Re:And in 6 months time? by Lumpy · 2010-06-30 04:20 · Score: 1
  
  Bet you $100.00 that dad is out shopping for a new BMW 525.....
  All that cash will disappear into useless things that do nothing for the child.
  "daddy needs a BMW sweetie... Or daddy's friends will laugh at him."
  
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4. Re:And in 6 months time? by trashbird1240 · 2010-06-30 04:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  This is how they should spend the money: a vasectomy for dad, therapy for the kid in twenty years, college fund, and a parenting coach.
5. Re:And in 6 months time? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:23 · Score: 0
  
  So what is he going to do in 6 months time when this little bit of internet trivia gets lost in the next big thing (tm)??
  Presumably, the dad will go back to real estate. It's not like he's burned a bunch of bridges and spent his life savings on building a "David After Dentist" amusement park.
  $150k over 18 months works out to a $100k salary. That's a pretty decent salary, but I doubt it changed their life-style from what he was making on real estate. If the end result is that the video lets the family ride out the worst of the real estate crash without having to make any major sacrifices, more power to them.
Great... by Adys · 2010-06-30 03:43 · Score: 4, Funny

... you guys slashdotted youtube.
Andy Warhol was right by wcrowe · 2010-06-30 03:45 · Score: 1

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Scarred? by twoallbeefpatties · 2010-06-30 03:47 · Score: 4, Informative

You realize that the kid and his dad WERE on Tosh.O, and the kid seemed completely sane about it. He looked like he was having a good time, and the sketch allowed him to pretend to drug up his dad and get revenge on him. I'll bet the kid looks back on this later on in life and has a good laugh about it.

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1. Re:Scarred? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:58 · Score: 0
  
  Sane? Perhaps. Funny? No.
2. Re:Scarred? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 20:44 · Score: 0
  
  Yea, he'll think about it the whole time he's smoking on the crack pipe
$100,000 through youtube? by cwtrex · 2010-06-30 03:55 · Score: 4, Interesting

The article never fully explained how they received $100,000 from youtube. Was it the t-shirts they were selling? If so, I would say they earned $100,000 from selling t-shirts of their now famous son and not that they received the majority of their funds from the youtube video itself even if it was an direct cause of those t-shirt sales. To me, the t-shirts are an indirect stream of revenue caused by the video. Revenue directly from the video itself to me would mean ads before or after the video or some other means of revenue that is passively accrued after the video is viewed.
I would love to have it cleared up for me as to exactly how "most of the money came from Youtube."
1. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:06 · Score: 0
  
  http://www.youtube.com/partners
2. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by canajin56 · 2010-06-30 04:09 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  youTube has ads on them. You may have noticed, those annoying boxes that float up from the bottom, that you instinctively click the X on? If you get a certain number of views, Google starts paying you a portion of the revenues that your video is pulling in.
  
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3. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:10 · Score: 0
  
  For popular videos YouTube will do partnerships and advertising schemes. They are owned by Google, after all.
4. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by trashbird1240 · 2010-06-30 04:34 · Score: 1
  
  One of the only ads I saw during the Super Bowl (I was much more interested in the dip at the party) was for an Android phone that included a clip of "David After Dentist." Since Youtube users don't give up the rights, Youtube (or Motorola or whoever's ad it was) would have to obtain rights from the owners (the kid's despicable parents) somehow.
5. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by cwtrex · 2010-06-30 05:28 · Score: 1
  
  I have indeed seen the ads that Google has started to show, but was unaware that they paid the poster a portion of those ad revenues. Thanks for pointing that out for me.
6. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by amicusNYCL · 2010-06-30 05:29 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  the owners (the kid's despicable parents)
  
  Initially, the video was meant to be shared amongst friends and family. At the time, however, YouTube's only alternative to sharing a video with the world was to share it with just 25 people. So, instead of setting "David After Dentist" as "Private," the video went "Public" for everyone to see.
  
  The DeVores, however, say the licensing deals for their video fell right into their laps.
  Their largest deal came from a Vizio Super Bowl ad featuring several other Internet celebrities, such as the "Numa Numa Guy." In total, they received around $8,000 and young David DeVore, already used to the on-screen exposure, was seen by millions during the biggest game of the year.
  
  the younger David is just trying to live like a normal 9-year old kid. After finishing the 3rd grade on the honor roll, David is on summer break and just attended football camp in Tampa Bay. He is also taking guitar lessons though that doesn't necessarily translate to more on-camera time for the young viral star.
  "He's not interested in becoming a TV star, he's just a regular kid," his father tells us. "He's got other things that interest him."
  
  The father speaks very highly of his wife and two sons, and he is extremely grateful for the video's wild success. "We do look at it as a blessing, in a crazy 21st century way," says David. "It's allowed me to have the flexibility and freedom to be with my family."
  
  They're also open to posting videos of aspiring musicians or performers looking for exposure onto their YouTube channel which, according to David, still attracts 100,000 - 125,000 views a day.
  Despicable, despicable people. No doubt these people are deserving of the world's scorn, and are in fact useless human beings. I am only too pleased to be able to cast my righteous judgement down upon these worthless sub-humans. I look forward to more opportunities where I can judge people I don't know from the internet. I believe that doing so makes me a better person. I'm glad that you agree.
  
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7. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by MarkGriz · 2010-06-30 05:32 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  "You may have noticed, those annoying boxes that float up from the bottom, that you instinctively click the X on?"
  Nope, never have. ABP FTW
  
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8. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by Macrat · 2010-06-30 14:18 · Score: 1
  
  "You may have noticed, those annoying boxes that float up from the bottom, that you instinctively click the X on?"
  Nope, never have. ABP FTW
  Me either.. Maybe because I only view html5 interface on YouTube.
9. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by dacaldar · 2010-06-30 16:58 · Score: 1
  
  Thank you parent and great grandparent. This is the same question I had, and I wondered if ads could have anything to do with it, but knew I hadn't noticed ads on youtube before. Do people get paid per ad viewed, or ad clicked?
  Anyway, thank you Ad Block Plus - I don't even realize that I almost never see ads anymore.
  Sorry for the newb question, but what does FTW mean?
10. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by cwtrex · 2010-06-30 22:08 · Score: 1
  
  Ah, that's why i was clueless. I too use ABP. lol
11. Re:$100,000 through youtube? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-01 10:47 · Score: 0
  
  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ftw
Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by ((hristopher+_-*-_-* · 2010-06-30 03:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

I kinda thinks it's exploiting the little boy. When I watch it all I see is a poor child mind struggling to understand what is happening, and can't understand to amusement, and therefore reason why this video is advertised.
I'd also rather keep the image of kids on drugs out of the media.
1. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:43 · Score: 0
  
  I kinda thinks it's exploiting the little boy. When I watch it all I see is a poor child mind struggling to understand what is happening, and can't understand to amusement, and therefore reason why this video is advertised.
  I'd also rather keep the image of kids on drugs out of the media.
  You're free to think that.
  Other people are free to think otherwise.
  This father thought otherwise and has no obligation to conform to the ideas of a random member of the Slashdot mob.
  G'day.
2. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by lawpoop · 2010-06-30 06:06 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  This seems like some anti-drug histeria in the vein of Reefer Madness.
  
  First off, they weren't giving the kid illegal drugs. This is something a medical professional gave him for a dental procedure. This is a good use of drugs. Using drugs properly promotes good health and reduces pain and suffering.
  
  Second, would you have any problem with a video of a kid, say, being fooled by a game of peekaboo, or startled by another kid in a mask? These are both normal parts of life. If you have problems with people making money off their young kids in general, congratulations; you're not a hypocrite. Getting doped up on drugs for routine medical procedures is not a bad thing.
  
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3. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by iknowcss · 2010-06-30 06:07 · Score: 1
  
  ... and therefore reason why this video is advertised.
  Uhm, because it's entertaining?
  
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4. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 08:27 · Score: 0
  
  yay! Kids on anesthetics after a dental appointment = kids on drugs!
  what the hell...
5. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by CAIMLAS · 2010-06-30 09:02 · Score: 1
  
  Apparently you don't have kids. They laugh about this shit the next day. I've got two kids around this guy's age. They were laughing at themselves when they sounded funny, and
  You've got to remember, kids (those raised by good parents, at least) don't see things in such a jaded light as an adult. They're innocent, and being embarrassed is typically something learned through scorn and ridicule. Children like that end up being head cases with esteem issues - not the ones who have no issue laughing at themselves.
  
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6. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by j741 · 2010-06-30 13:55 · Score: 1
  
  ... can't understand to amusement, and therefore reason why this video is advertised.
  Some of the humor can be found in the familiarity of the situation. Remembering how you experienced a similar situation, whether it was as innocent as this child's, or a bit more adult and experienced, the memories and familiarity help to trigger the laughter.
  
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7. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by dangitman · 2010-07-01 04:05 · Score: 1
  
  Having a disassociative experience after a drug is a fairly serious event and it isn't funny.
  Are you kidding me? It's fucking hilarious. Why do you think people take hallucinogenic drugs?
  
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8. Re:Actually, i find it difficult to watch. by Securityemo · 2010-07-02 17:20 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah, but that's because it's expected. If it's not, it's a sign of something going very wrong in your head.
  
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He didn't quit by name_already_taken · 2010-06-30 03:57 · Score: 4, Insightful

I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
"Quit" is a euphemism for saying he wasn't making any money selling residential real estate anyway, so he decided to sell t-shirts, which turned out to be the right decision. I know a realtor who right now is decorating cakes at a local supermarket.
It's not like realtors are "employed" anyway - they can be affiliated with a brokerage, but they're not employees in the classical sense. They can come and go as they please and work as much or as little as they choose to.
He can go back to selling real estate any time he wants, it's not like he gave up tenure or something.

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1. Re:He didn't quit by city · 2010-06-30 06:59 · Score: 1
  
  I literally have a realtor friend who now works for the state at the unemployment office. Care to guess how he got the job?
  
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Nothing special. by MaWeiTao · 2010-06-30 03:59 · Score: 2, Insightful

I'd say they were smart in that they capitalized on this video's popularity but stupid in that they seem to believe they're going to be able to live off this.
What I find surprising is that something so relatively uninteresting is able to garner this much attention. It's like on America's Funniest Home Videos when some crappy video would win $10,000 simply because it featured a baby. What kid doesn't say something cute or funny? The people compelled to buy a lame t-shirt about some random Youtube video are arguably the stupid ones.
1. Re:Nothing special. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2010-06-30 06:11 · Score: 1
  
  The people compelled to buy a lame t-shirt about some random Youtube video are arguably the stupid ones.
  Hey, when your sister is married to an idiot who thinks he can support his family on T-shirt sales, so he quits his job, you buy T-shirts so she can eat.
  Anyone want to buy 5,000 T-shirts, you know, for the gym or something. I'll give you a good price.
  
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I find they handled it all very reasonable by Qbertino · 2010-06-30 04:00 · Score: 1

I find they handled it all very reasonable. They could've milked the whole thing for way more money. Instead they saw to it that dave is shielded from creeps and griefers on the web, set up a small kitchen table business and generally where laughing along with the crowd, david aswell. He has a brief appearance in one superbowl commercial and went to ROFLCON with his dad. No biggie, imho, and certainly no unduely exploitation of him. And they've allready donated measurable sums of the generated income to charity.
I for one whish dave and his family a good time. I'd be proud if I'd've had the occasion to score my family 150000$ with a little episode like this as a kid. I hope he makes the most of his college later on, now that it is paid for.
And last but not least, 62 Million views on youtube, that actually *is* quite impressive, even by todays inflated standards.

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Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by adosch · 2010-06-30 04:06 · Score: 1

This is just a whole new breed of exploitive human beings pimpin' themselves out for coin. This is really no worse than Jon and Kate + 8, Balloon Boy and all those other reality-ites that big their train wreck of a life and family to make a living and support them. In this case, congratulations to them for making a 150K of a viral video of your son dopey on novocain, but know your limit. And quitting your job? Seriously. Your 15 minutes of frame is probably about ticked dry...
1. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by kikito · 2010-06-30 04:28 · Score: 1
  
  You remind me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo
2. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by eyrieowl · 2010-06-30 04:28 · Score: 1
  
  He was in residential real-estate in florida. Quitting his job probably saved him money...didn't have to pay for gas driving around to show houses no one wants to buy.
3. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by trashbird1240 · 2010-06-30 04:39 · Score: 1
  
  And do you have children kikito?
4. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by kikito · 2010-06-30 04:45 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe I do.
5. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by Flentil · 2010-06-30 06:19 · Score: 1
  
  I saw about 10 seconds of this video before realizing it was just some obnoxious kid acting stupid and turned it off. Thanks, internets, for making this kid a sensation. Get ready for a tsunami of copycat obnoxious kid videos as parents encourage their kids to act stupid for the camera, so they can buy a new house with the money youtube pays them.
6. Re:Child Exploitation for an Almighty Dollar by erc · 2010-06-30 08:41 · Score: 1
  
  Already done, sorry to say. The parents are scum for exploiting their kid for money - they had to sign those releases...
  
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reply by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:10 · Score: 0

is this really happening?
1. Re:reply by bodland · 2010-06-30 04:44 · Score: 1
  
  Is this going to be forever?
For the other 99% of us by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 04:10 · Score: 0

I wondered how you monetized a YouTube video. TFA says, "Most of the money came from Youtube" - I guess you make a channel. A quick Google found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uqsk_rUedw
So I guess you have to be selected for whoredom by being popular among YouTube viewers.
1. Re:For the other 99% of us by numbski · 2010-06-30 06:59 · Score: 1
  
  I still don't get how you make money. I guess my use of noscript+adblock leaves me bewildered. :P
  
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And to think... by Whyte+Panther · 2010-06-30 04:22 · Score: 1

If he had subitted it to America's Funniest Home Videos, he maaaaabye could have won what, $10,000 is their top prize?
True confession: my addiction by hey! · 2010-06-30 04:26 · Score: 2, Informative

Whenever I have a crappy day, I go on YouTube and look for videos of laughing babies. Is that creepy or what?

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Disgusting by trashbird1240 · 2010-06-30 04:32 · Score: 1

This is truly disgusting and overall sad. Videos of intoxicated adults are rarely funny, but videotaping a child on drugs and selling it is completely pornographic. These parents ought to be ashamed of themselves. They ought to get their child privileges revoked right away. Right on to adosch and wcrowe.
1. Re:Disgusting by Scutter · 2010-06-30 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You must be a hoot at parties.
  
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Stupid question by Darinbob · 2010-06-30 04:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

He made money from Youtube from this? How does that work? I thought the videos were put up freely and not for rent.
1. Re:Stupid question by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:14 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  you can get a share from the ads profits
  http://www.youtube.com/t/partnerships_benefits
2. Re:Stupid question by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:21 · Score: 0
  
  You must claim it from the Department of the Internet money.
3. Re:Stupid question by didroe84 · 2010-06-30 05:27 · Score: 1
  
  Apparently, according to teh interwebs, you can apply to become a "partner" and share in ad revenue.
Idiocracy by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:27 · Score: 0

Just one step closer to
"Ow my Balls!"
It's happening, folks.
I have some visiting younger relatives who wanted to watch "Keeping up with the Kardashians" the other night. I could feel it sucking the IQ from my head.
The thing that really floors me by sean.peters · 2010-06-30 05:28 · Score: 2, Insightful

Dad gave up his real estate job in favor of... selling t-shirts about this? How long does he think America is even going to REMEMBER this whole silly thing?
1. Re:The thing that really floors me by at_slashdot · 2010-06-30 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  He probably gave up his real estate job because real estate doesn't sell that well in this period (have you heard about the crash?) not because he wants to dedicate his time to sell t-shirts. The description is most likely misleading.
  
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2. Re:The thing that really floors me by Cytotoxic · 2010-06-30 06:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I live in Florida - before the crash there were something like 8-10 real estate agents for every person in Florida. They caused traffic jams when herds of agents would cross the road. Airports installed propane cannons to scare real estate agents away from the runways. When we had hurricanes, real estate agents would pile up on the beaches in huge drifts. Now that the real estate bubble has crashed hard there's only about 3-4 real estate agents per person.
  It is pretty easy for a working agent to get a listing, particularly a condo listing, since there are about 5,000 empty condos per resident. Getting a sale is an entirely different matter. He's pretty candid that he made more money not selling real estate for the last year - that should tell you something about his success as an agent.
3. Re:The thing that really floors me by SleazyRidr · 2010-06-30 09:52 · Score: 1
  
  Hey, if I could give up my job and make $50k in a couple of weeks I'd do it. I can always look for a new job later.
  
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NPR interviewed them awhile back. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-30 05:28 · Score: 0

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112344178
media moguls they are.
Let me get this straight by AlgorithMan · 2010-06-30 06:08 · Score: 1

So the father violates his sons human rights by destroying his dignity,
the son will probably be unable to live a normal life
and on top of that, the father pockets all the money
and uses it to quit working instead of using it for the sons college or something...

what an asshole!

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Compared to... by kalqlate · 2010-06-30 06:14 · Score: 1

Compared to the success of "Hahaha" (laughing baby) and "Charlie Bit My Finger", "David After Dentist" is only mildly successfull in terms of what is possible. If appropriate segments of "Ha ha ha" (laughing baby) were sold to Microsoft's Bing marketing, they could make MILLIONS... for obvious reasons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk#t=1m24s.
Welcome to the Machine by HazMathew · 2010-06-30 08:41 · Score: 1

1. Slip your child a mickey/roofie/lsd/hash brownie
2. Throw them in the backseat of your gas guzzling SUV
3. Record video of intoxicated child
4. Upload video to YouTube
5. Profit!
"Is it gonna be this way forever?"
Yes son, it is.
non-PC version by nu1x · 2010-06-30 08:45 · Score: 1

1. Record a video of a drugged 7 year old girl.
2. 2. ?????^H^H^H^H^HExploit her by putting video on Youtube.
3. What ? Youtube no accept ?
4 Cops !
5. :(

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Brain damage? by nikanth · 2010-06-30 17:05 · Score: 1

What kind of medicine is that. :( Hope that kid's brain doesn't have long-term issues.
Making money on YouTube? by volpe · 2010-06-30 21:06 · Score: 1

At first I thought the money "made from YouTube" *was* from the resulting merchandising opportunity it brought about. But the article summary suggests otherwise. How does one make money *directly* from YouTube?
1. Re:Making money on YouTube? by hether · 2010-07-01 04:21 · Score: 1
  
  http://www.youtube.com/t/partnerships_benefits
  I'm guessing this point in particular
  - "Share revenue from relevant InVideo ads overlaid on your videos and banner ads running next to your videos to earn money"
  
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2. Re:Making money on YouTube? by volpe · 2010-07-01 08:43 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks!