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"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family
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."
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?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
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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