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 Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: White-haired pensioner becomes YouTube's latest hit |
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| Quote: | A number of videos posted by a pensioner on the online video site YouTube have attracted nearly half a million views.
Peter, whose surname is unknown, joined the YouTube phenomenon around a week ago with his very first video entitled “first try”. The clip, which opens with the title “geriatric gripes and grumbles”, is accompanied by some mellow blues music. He begins by telling viewers of the youth dominated website how he became hooked with it. “It’s a fascinating place to go to see all the wonderful videos that young people have produced so I thought I would have a go at doing one myself,” he says in front of a wall covered in floral wallpaper and family photographs.
He then goes on to describe the purpose of his videos. “What I hope I will be able to do is to just bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who has been there and done that and hopefully you will respond in some way by your comments.” His videos feature tales from his life, the horrors of war with it and police harassment.
In his profile, Peter says he lives in the middle of England and is a widower. He likes blues music, has a lifelong love of motorcycles, and he says that he doesn’t have any piercings or tattoos. According to his profile, he is seventy-eight years-old, but he says in one of his videos that he is seventy-nine years-old.
So far, Peter has posted nine videos on his YouTube page and he has had nearly three hundred thousand hits. Almost twelve thousand people have subscribed to his clips which puts him at the top of the most-subscribed list on You Tube in the past week.
In his second video, he reveals he has had over 4,700 emails. “I am absolutely overwhelmed and don’t quite know what to say,” he admits. “I just need to say thank you … this YouTube experience has been one of the major changes and breakthroughs in my life and given me a whole new world to experience,” says the white-haired pensioner with his eyes closed. |
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