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Remember the chubby adolescent sitting at his computer desk, dancing his little heart out to some weird German song? (Oh, come on people, it was only back in 2004). Commonly referred to as the Numa Numa Dance, the homemade video was an Internet sensation and it's estimated to have been viewed 700 million times.
Along with another homemade video, The Star Wars Kid (in which another chubby adolescent runs around showing off his Star Wars light saber moves) these simply-made videos signaled the explosion of online amateur video.
But it seems the heyday of the geek/funny man/crazy girl amateur is already over. (Well, although it's only been a few years, amateur video makers can take at least some relief in the fact that they lasted longer than most Hollywood marriages).
According to an article in Business Week, in today's "don't blink or you'll miss the upgrade" technology world, user-generated content on online video sites may already be on the way out, replaced...
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