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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."
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?
My work here is dung.
"IS IT GONNA BE THIS WAY FOREVER????"
I know what you mean, kid...I know what you mean.
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Is this real life?
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....
Jackass.
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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.
that they put some away in a 529 plan to pay for his future education!
... you guys slashdotted youtube.
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.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
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.
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."
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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He made money from Youtube from this? How does that work? I thought the videos were put up freely and not for rent.
You must be a hoot at parties.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
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?
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.