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Taylor's Blog

April 01 2009

THAT'S what i'm talking about

So for those of you that haven't checked out the video yet today, Gder01 from Youtube (John Voight from 2p2) has signed with CR to do some humor vids. Today was his first one, which was basically a parody of the political video we did 6 months ago which....didn't go so well. Anyway, we can laugh at ourselves, and after all, it's April Fools Day.

I'm reading the Kudos/Rotten Tomatoes forum looking at some feedback. Now, I made it pretty clear in that thread that this video was an april fools joke. One member didn't read the whole thread and made comments about how "this was a terrible decision by the CEO, didn't we learn our lesson with the last political video?" People went on to say he should read the thread and he clearly didn't bother to do that and he replied with:

"the only reason CR wont see a backlash for this poor business decision is due to the unique content they are able to provide that can't be found elsewhere. but tbh if a competitor had clones of Raptor/Stinger/Irock I would cancel my membership immediately.

So better to be lucky then good eh?"

Now DAMN, THATis what I am talking about. We managed to put up a video titled "Barack Obama: Great or Greatest?," a member didn't get the joke, does not like Obama or political commentary from us in general (I get that), and still managed to say that even with our perceived lack of ability to make good business decisions he will stick around as a customer because our content is so damn good. It's at that point I realized that all of our hard work in signing new pros and improving video content and quality from current ones is really starting to pay off.

What sort of made me scratch my head was the "better to be lucky than good" comment. Is it really luck that we continue to sign these guys? I dunno, maybe.

Anyway, this post is all in good fun but I thought it was funny. Nothing like a good April Fool's Joke. I think I'm going to try to convince my girlfriend later today that I am going to stay in Asia for six months (for work) instead of 2 weeks.

Have a nice day.

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April 01,2009

Yah, I love making my girlfriend think im doing some shit like going away for months or something....

Pretty shitty if she doesnt seem that bummed about it tho! haha

skippy13

April 01,2009

I'll lay odds that your HORSE video is funnier

jtphila

April 01,2009

raise subscription

maslalo

April 01,2009

all i have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! people need to learn to relaxe. I dont like President right but dont care about good or bad things people say. I would tell him to take a chill pill and move onto more impoartint things in life.

nordlaw

April 01,2009

"the obama deception" ftw

natediesel

April 01,2009

best part is the sleeveless mrs. obama.

and i think the whole thing is better when some people don't find it funny and get angry :)

SomeLoudThunder

April 01,2009

I voted for Perot.

jeff218

April 01,2009

Just tell your girlfriend that you won't be going for anal tonight. Then when you "accidentally" do it, yell "APRIL FOOLS!"

Vintage00

April 02,2009

the lucky comment is taken out of context. No, it is not luck to sign these guys, it is hard work and you do a great job.

It is lucky that you sell a product that cannot be found anywhere else. IRL if Coke did something political, customers would flock to Pepsi. If it was Mcdonalds, customers would flock to BurgerKing.

So the luck part is that you will not see any effect from this 'mistake' that a normal company would.

However it is your rodeo do what you want. FWIW, I only said you made A bad decision, I never stated you were a bad decision maker or lacked the ability to make good decisions.

BigBadDevil

April 03,2009

wait, that video wasn't serious?

brystmar

April 05,2009

BigBadDevil, you realize the video was posted as a joke, right? It was April Fool's Day. They learned their lesson from the last political video and have enough of a sense of humor to poke fun at themselves. You seem to continually be missing the point that the entire video was posted as a JOKE. Joke = intended to be funny, not serious, in case you're unclear on that.

SlevinKalevra

April 05,2009

I have always been a huge fan of gder01. I can hardly believe it's happening!! This is the most excited I have ever been over a new pro.

xoxoxo

Timid Flower

April 10,2009

FUNNIEST VIDEO EVER!

BillCraven

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