Tokyo Breakfast
When I first started my website years ago it had no real purpose, much like it is today. Funny movies and images seemed to be scarce for me. I pretty much saved everyone of them I came across and started to put them on my site. There was flash, movies and pictures and for sometime I had a consistent amount of traffic. In fact, I was told that I had a large amount of a school visiting my site for the flash games. I didn’t realize nor take advantage of the possibilities of having a website. I was against using ads since I didn’t own the content I was serving. I didn’t watermark them either (which is just plain wrong), but I should have at least tried to generate enough money to pay for hosting costs.
One specific video that generated the most traffic for me was Tokyo Breakfast. It was also a fairly big video for its time, about 13MB. Sometime in July of 2001 (I think) I generated approximately 250GB (almost 20,000 hits) of bandwidth. I was pretty scared actually of having to dish out the money to pay for that extra bandwidth. I believe I was allowed 40GB at the time for my hosting. Lucky for me I was never billed, but it reminds me about a guy who was almost overcharged $16,000. Sadly I had to password protect the movies directory so that the traffic went down. In case you haven’t heard of it here is a bit more information about it citing Wikipedia’s article.
Tokyo Breakfast is a 2000 independent live action comedy short film (5:50 min. running time) by Propaganda Films and created by former MTV producers Mike Maguire and creative Tom Kuntz.
The spoof sitcom was a commentary on a fad where a family in Japan were adopting the hip hop lifestyle as depicted in music videos. The film is a parody of the Japanese perception of day-to-day doings of an American family, with an emphasis on the emulation of a perceived black culture. Characters use the term “nigga” with unusual regularity and familiarity.
The actors speak in (heavily Japanese-accented) English, peppered with American English idioms, and salaryman-style business English.
The film appeared in the 2001 Ohio Film Festival and also spread as an Internet phenomenon.
Now even today I still get hits for it because of www.albinoblacksheep.com. Of course all of the links are dead on his page for that video. I’ve decided to host it once again on my site to increase traffic. This time around I have much more bandwidth and I would need 10 times the amount of traffic to exceed it. That is by the way is not going to happen, at least it shouldn’t be. The link for the video can be found here.
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I don’t know whether to say “No wonder why the show got cancelled” or “It’s a shame it didn’t see at least one season”, but regardless, it just goes to show that stereotyping and racism can be funny, even with all the PC crap people shove down our throats
Yes stereotypes can be extremely funny. My favorite show for a long time was Chappelle’s Show. Anytime Dave played as a white guy it really made me laugh. I especially liked the voice he used for the part
True racism on the other hand (oppression, prejudice, bigotry, discrimination or violence) is quite fucked up. Take a look down your street and look at all the cars. You might see a purple colored car somewhere where you live. I don’t like the color purple. Suppose you don’t like purple either and perhaps your friend drives a car with that color. Would you prevent a purple car from parking in your driveway? Would you start making rules to prevent purple cars from parking in certain areas or driving down certain types of roads? No you wouldn’t and if you did I’m sure hopefully you could see just how stupid that would be.
Heh sometimes reading my own comments makes me laugh. That one was horrible. The analogy seemed good at the time.