Fake Accents Create Interest
It has been said that there is no accounting for taste, but I would put to you, dear reader, that there is no accounting for – well, anything…
Regular readers might recall my frustration with YouTube. The longer I spend around the creature that is ‘YouTube’ the less I understand it. I mean, I understand the infrastructure. I understand the logistics. What I am more concerned about is my own contributions, my videos. They are (at times) very difficult to make and I want them to have meaning, and, hopefully, connect with people. Sometimes I’ll spend months working on a project to have it received by a completely nonplussed audience. And other times I’ll have a brain explosion, record something in real time with no editing, and people lap it up.
Nalts supposedly makes a video a day simply because he has no idea what is going to ’stick.’ He also suggests that Good Content is Not Popular and that we should Screw the audience! Okay, I need to stop using Kevin’s blog to make me feel better about myself. We both have Louise Hay for that!
The point is while I have some idea of what I intend to make I never have any idea how it will be received. Which brings us to this…
Happy Fake British Accent Day is well – very silly. A completely made up cultural holiday brought to my attention by that most happy of time wasters, Facebook. I say silly things in bad accents which may or may not have any resemblance to our British friends. A day or two before I made the video I had been introduced to British YouTube personality Jerry Cooke (hence the random exclamations of “JERRY!” in the video). At the time I even suggested my other Australian friends might get in on the act and use it as the basis for a birthday collaboration for Mr. Cooke. They declined. (Only HalfScottishGuy got in on the act and even then it only appeared on his alternate channel.)
Oddly this video appears to have struck a cord with the people. It has become my 4th most viewed video. Five months after I uploaded it it still averages about 10 views per day. This is unheard of for me. I have a little over 500 subscribers, and typically whatever views my videos had received in the first 48 hours of being live was basically where that number would stay.
Comments are always fun.
crazyboyxx (1 month ago)
lived in england 25 years and never heard anyone remotely like that. Why is it so hard for americans to do a remotely decent accent? They all end up sounding like royalty from 200 years ago. There are literally hundreds of accents in britain so theres huge choice.
I’m not American. (I wonder what specifically made this person think I was?) I would wager its difficult for most people to emulate any accent. Furthermore, are there any recordings of royalty from 200 years ago? If not how do they know what the 200 year old British monarchs sound like?
Certainly there is a great width and depth variation of accents within Britain. Clearly I am not a trained actor. Perhaps people missed the word “FAKE” in the title? Perhaps they also missed the video description where I suggested a list of people with REAL British accents they could watch alternatively.
I imagine my penchant for antagonism probably doesn’t help.
Somehow, if I showed up to work speaking in a fake British accent on Wednesday, I think the Brits would kill me.
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I sometimes start spekaing in my normal aussie tone and move to american and back and forth. It’s rather wierd and comes from listening/watching alot of media all over the place. Happens in some of my videos sometimes too.
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I make a video a day. Well, I’ve made 305 this year. My southern accent is not affect. Nor do I want it. Wait. What was this post about again?