Sunday, 4 April 2010
Friday, 2 April 2010
Charlie Bit Me has enjoyed being Number 1
Charlie Bit My Finger – Again!, aka Charlie bit Me, differs in many ways to most of the YouTube high flyers for a number of reasons. I think they are mostly obvious but will list a few;
Everything has its moment in time. If Gaga overtakes Charlie Bit Me, then it happens. For that matter any number of Vevo music videos could overtake it in the coming months. We would also rather that happen than see the figures fixed by people not wanting or wanting some other course of events and trying to manipulate them. Harry and Charlie will always be about brotherly love, innocents, natural and spontaneous moments absolutely not commercialism. We do not shock, try and make waves or trends or try and appeal to a commercial world. What we do does not generate wealth for multinational organisations. We get lovely comments from teenagers to great grand parents.
The site is made child friendly as often as I am able to delete the comments with foul language. Some of the comments we have seen from ‘fans’ of other videos and pop stars have been verbal diarrhoea at best, disgusting uneducated base mentality at worst. I would like to think any Charlie Bit Me fans are well above this kind of behaviour. We also don't allow the site to be used as a hate site towards any other videos. We maybe unique on that, but it is important to us.
Personally I don't quite see why some people are getting so excited. To me it would be like watching a major/premier league football team taking on a Sunday league Boy Scouts team and then the major league supporters getting over exited when they win.
Seeing the Time Magazine article the other day was great. Thanks to all of you who support the video.
Having the Number 1 spot on YouTube has been fun but it hardly the most important thing about life. Staying honest, genuine and true to yourself and everyone else is of much higher value.
We have always been proud that a simple home video has been able to do so well in the charts compared to all the commercial offerings out there but as we are incredibly proud of our sons anyway a chart position is just a bonus.
I hope no one minds me referring to the artist knows as ‘Lady Gaga’ as Gaga. In the UK ‘Lady’ means something more than a standard dictionary definition. A Lady is a title and apart from the queen women of royal and noble status carry the title of "Lady". As a title of nobility the use of 'Lady' are parallel to those of Lord. I could go around saying Lord Harry and Lord Charlie but I don’t for any number of reasons not least because it would be meaningless and probably upset a few people. If you do have a problem with this please write your complaint to harryandcharlie@googlemail.com making sure you address Harry and Charlie with their stage names of the day; Lord Ahh Ahh and Lord HaHa. I think of 'Lady Gaga' as a brand.
If being a ‘real’ Lord or Lady is of real interest to you go here, or give lots of money and or favours to a British Political party. We have no commercial interest of contact with the link above. I was just interested to see what was out there.
- Not one penny was spent in its production
- Not one penny has been spent in its promotion
- There are no sexual references or innuendoes
- There is nothing designed to shock in its content
- Nothing is promoted
- We have only hosted it on YouTube so every view you see are YouTube site views
- The video was created and shared with no intentions of money being made from it
- The wellbeing of the Harry and Charlie has always been more important than anything else
- Anything to do with Charlie Bit Me has been handled by one person until very recently.
- I am not 100% sure about this one, but I am pretty sure no one plays Charlie Bit Me in a Blogger music player gadget automatically every time their blogger page is refreshed (even if they don’t have a sound card or sound turned off). Wow would that make a difference to the views of Charlie Bit Me
Everything has its moment in time. If Gaga overtakes Charlie Bit Me, then it happens. For that matter any number of Vevo music videos could overtake it in the coming months. We would also rather that happen than see the figures fixed by people not wanting or wanting some other course of events and trying to manipulate them. Harry and Charlie will always be about brotherly love, innocents, natural and spontaneous moments absolutely not commercialism. We do not shock, try and make waves or trends or try and appeal to a commercial world. What we do does not generate wealth for multinational organisations. We get lovely comments from teenagers to great grand parents.
The site is made child friendly as often as I am able to delete the comments with foul language. Some of the comments we have seen from ‘fans’ of other videos and pop stars have been verbal diarrhoea at best, disgusting uneducated base mentality at worst. I would like to think any Charlie Bit Me fans are well above this kind of behaviour. We also don't allow the site to be used as a hate site towards any other videos. We maybe unique on that, but it is important to us.
Personally I don't quite see why some people are getting so excited. To me it would be like watching a major/premier league football team taking on a Sunday league Boy Scouts team and then the major league supporters getting over exited when they win.
Seeing the Time Magazine article the other day was great. Thanks to all of you who support the video.
Having the Number 1 spot on YouTube has been fun but it hardly the most important thing about life. Staying honest, genuine and true to yourself and everyone else is of much higher value.
We have always been proud that a simple home video has been able to do so well in the charts compared to all the commercial offerings out there but as we are incredibly proud of our sons anyway a chart position is just a bonus.
I hope no one minds me referring to the artist knows as ‘Lady Gaga’ as Gaga. In the UK ‘Lady’ means something more than a standard dictionary definition. A Lady is a title and apart from the queen women of royal and noble status carry the title of "Lady". As a title of nobility the use of 'Lady' are parallel to those of Lord. I could go around saying Lord Harry and Lord Charlie but I don’t for any number of reasons not least because it would be meaningless and probably upset a few people. If you do have a problem with this please write your complaint to harryandcharlie@googlemail.com making sure you address Harry and Charlie with their stage names of the day; Lord Ahh Ahh and Lord HaHa. I think of 'Lady Gaga' as a brand.
If being a ‘real’ Lord or Lady is of real interest to you go here, or give lots of money and or favours to a British Political party. We have no commercial interest of contact with the link above. I was just interested to see what was out there.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Friday, 26 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Question: Are you capitalizing off this? (in repspect to a YouTube post).
@s10458 Q. Are you capitalizing off this?
This is a good question. The short answer is yes, but of course that is only part of the answer. The majority of posts we get are positive and heart warming and people are genially interested in updates.
I set myself some moral guidelines over two years ago and I am happy to say I have not broken these in any aspect. We have not ‘sold out’, we do very few interviews and television appearances by choice. We do not advertise on the pages over and above the standard things offered by YouTube despite daily requests. We save any monies earned as we view it as the boy’s future. We have not changed as a family.
The word capitalise means 'to draw advantage from'. Yes we do that and I have answered on this basis. I do not think there are many people who would not draw advantage from something that falls in their lap. However we have not ‘taken advantage’ and we have not really done anything more than we would have done without the YouTube interest. If you meant capitalise in any other context then you should disregard my answer.
A minority of people say we exploit the boys. The definition of exploit is ‘to employ to the greatest possible advantage’ or ‘to use selfishly or unethically’. Another definition is ‘to advertise and promote’. Had you used this word and meant either of the first two then firstly I would not have bothered to answer your question but if I had to answer I would have said no. I hope you can see this from the paragraph above. Do we ‘advertise and promote’. Well actually we don’t do this either. I have only once sent out a message to people on YouTube when I have put a new clip up and the only other places you would find links are on the blog, Facebook and Twitter for those who subscribe.
The problems I see are that people struggle to actually understand the words they are using (especially with relation to other more appropriate words) and therefore are not able to understand answers they may get in the correct context. Words are used because other people have used them there appropriateness is not necessarily a concern. People assume their view and understanding of the world is either the same as everyone else’s, the only view possible, or both. I also see people unable to review something objectively, i.e. without bringing in their own preconceived prejudices of what is right or wrong. The English language is rich and subtle. However in these times we live in people seem to struggle to understand anything within the boundaries of extremes.
To some I am sure they have no idea what I am talking about. Those are the people who leave comments that I have to clean up later.
This is a good question. The short answer is yes, but of course that is only part of the answer. The majority of posts we get are positive and heart warming and people are genially interested in updates.
I set myself some moral guidelines over two years ago and I am happy to say I have not broken these in any aspect. We have not ‘sold out’, we do very few interviews and television appearances by choice. We do not advertise on the pages over and above the standard things offered by YouTube despite daily requests. We save any monies earned as we view it as the boy’s future. We have not changed as a family.
The word capitalise means 'to draw advantage from'. Yes we do that and I have answered on this basis. I do not think there are many people who would not draw advantage from something that falls in their lap. However we have not ‘taken advantage’ and we have not really done anything more than we would have done without the YouTube interest. If you meant capitalise in any other context then you should disregard my answer.
A minority of people say we exploit the boys. The definition of exploit is ‘to employ to the greatest possible advantage’ or ‘to use selfishly or unethically’. Another definition is ‘to advertise and promote’. Had you used this word and meant either of the first two then firstly I would not have bothered to answer your question but if I had to answer I would have said no. I hope you can see this from the paragraph above. Do we ‘advertise and promote’. Well actually we don’t do this either. I have only once sent out a message to people on YouTube when I have put a new clip up and the only other places you would find links are on the blog, Facebook and Twitter for those who subscribe.
The problems I see are that people struggle to actually understand the words they are using (especially with relation to other more appropriate words) and therefore are not able to understand answers they may get in the correct context. Words are used because other people have used them there appropriateness is not necessarily a concern. People assume their view and understanding of the world is either the same as everyone else’s, the only view possible, or both. I also see people unable to review something objectively, i.e. without bringing in their own preconceived prejudices of what is right or wrong. The English language is rich and subtle. However in these times we live in people seem to struggle to understand anything within the boundaries of extremes.
To some I am sure they have no idea what I am talking about. Those are the people who leave comments that I have to clean up later.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Charlie's 4th Birthday Party
What a busy couple of weeks. Saturday was Charlie’s 4th Birthday party and it seemed to take weeks to organise. Charlie wanted a Knight themed party. So we thought it would be great if all the children who wanted to be knights had similar looking tabards, swords and shields. Princesses with similar tiaras and wands! This started two weeks before with stencilling, cutting, painting, gluing, drawing, sewing etc. In addition we had some material chainmail suits made for Harry Charlie and Daddy to wear under our tabards. However the results were great with about eighteen little Knights running around most of which wore the tabards and about eight little princesses.
Charlie chose a red lion emblem which I painted metallic red. Harry wanted gold and Jasper got the first one I made in silver.
Merlin wondered around turning parents into frogs.
We had a crossbow event, making shields and tiaras, a Knighting Ceremony, musical thrones, Merlin said (although I think Merlin had vanished so it was renamed King Charlie said), Sleeping Dragons and a few more to boot. The house and a marquee in the garden were adorned with knights, flags, bunting etc.
Lots of food and cake.
Other children and teddies faces blurred
I just wished I had had a little more time to take more photos of all the events. Maybe some other parents did I can add a few later.
Have a great 4th Year Charlie :)
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Harry, Charlie and Jasper's new home
Not sure if they are going to have a comfortable night
Still it's all their own handiwork :)
We are not sponsored by GAP. This is an unintentional promotion :)
We are not sponsored by GAP. This is an unintentional promotion :)
Thursday, 4 March 2010
If you like this film could you vote for it
Hi all
I do not often ask things of the people who visit us however ever on this occasion I am
Could you visit this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wILTkc08VyA
and if you like it vote for it here
http://www.reed.co.uk/film/ at the bottom called "The Papal Workplace"
The film was made by one of the guys who came to film Harry and Charlie for a viral show last year. The one where the boys are being interviewed behind the desk.
http://www.youtube.com/HDCYT?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/u/2/KFBE6aqBRPQ
I also love the clip :)
Thanks loads
I do not often ask things of the people who visit us however ever on this occasion I am
Could you visit this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wILTkc08VyA
and if you like it vote for it here
http://www.reed.co.uk/film/ at the bottom called "The Papal Workplace"
The film was made by one of the guys who came to film Harry and Charlie for a viral show last year. The one where the boys are being interviewed behind the desk.
http://www.youtube.com/HDCYT?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/u/2/KFBE6aqBRPQ
I also love the clip :)
Thanks loads
I have never been so glad a tunnel came along
Charlie and I (dad) went riding on trains yesterday (into London and about). As usual Charlie spent 45 minutes on the mainline asking question after question. Funny how all the other passengers pretend not to be listening. However as you can imagine some questions are harder to answer than others, here is a transcript from the start of one interaction;
Charlie: Daddy, why do you not want to be dead (this was a general question as opposed to me saying I'm going to die)
Daddy: Well, when you die everything ends
(Charlie shuffles about playing with the small shelf by the window)
Pause
Daddy: That is unless you...
Charlie: Wow a tunnel, look Daddy we are in a tunnel
conversation continues about tunnels..........
Just for all you theologians out there we neither encourage or discourage in equal measure big bang theory or Genesis. Space and stars catch Harry's attention more. Noah's ark and the good Samaritan grab Charlie's attention more :) I was going on to explain the concept of Heaven and Hell as I normally do, however as you can tell it makes little difference.
Tunnels are great things. Thanks Tunnel.
Charlie: Daddy, why do you not want to be dead (this was a general question as opposed to me saying I'm going to die)
Daddy: Well, when you die everything ends
(Charlie shuffles about playing with the small shelf by the window)
Pause
Daddy: That is unless you...
Charlie: Wow a tunnel, look Daddy we are in a tunnel
conversation continues about tunnels..........
Tunnels are great things. Thanks Tunnel.
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