Oh, I do love a good freakout. Youtube is like some kind of Bizarro-World version of America's Funniest Home Videos except that instead of attempting to funny, most of the entries are just sad. I guess that's what I find really attractive about the site. Youtube is essentially tragic, a fundamentally melancholic display of human loneliness and desperation. Still, it's one thing to make fun of Youtubers who suck at making jokes or are oblivious to their own lack of musical talent and another to witness somebody recording something that no one in their right mind would want to share with the world.

So, after I get my giggles out, I have to ponder why shakeywakey11 thought it would be a good idea to post his tearful, self-mutilating review of Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare to Youtube. I can't pretend to understand the motives of most people who vlog, but videos like this one strain the limits of reason. Has this kid just never spent any time on the Internet? How can he be so tragically unaware that the Web is populated with droves of people who will rag on him mercilessly for his video?

This in mind, I'm not sure I even want to contribute to the dog-pile of cruelty undoubtedly descending upon shakeywakey11 this very moment. Emotionally unstable teens need a proper balance of support to see them through the confusion of life and ridicule to make them stop being unbearable little jerks. Among the attitude adjustments required for shakey is not only a lesson about why we don't punch walls (blood stains are inconvenient for others), but possibly a reminder of why it's a bad thing to be a racist prick. The first time I watched this video I missed the part at the beginning when shakey described his game-making tormentors as "nips". Believe me, I want to have sympathy for this kid as he's obviously not entirely right in his soul, but I have a hard time mustering pity for junior bigots.

What really makes this video for me is the background. There's a lot to love about backgrounds in vlogs because they tell a story the vlogger doesn't necessarily intend to tell. It speaks to the fundamentally self-absorbed nature of vlogging that the makers of these videos think they themselves will be the only focus of attention instead of, say, a blue Carebear on a shelf full of anime. For all his violence and thuggy racism, shakeywakey11 really is still just a child, which is why it's more annoying than funny that he's openly weeping by the halfway point of the video. This kid is in that buffer zone where it's actually just wrong that he's crying over something like this. When little kids cry it's just a fact of life. When adults cry it's usually warranted or possibly just manipulation. When teenagers cry, especially about video games, they deserve to be mocked into adulthood.

I did like the camera punch at the end, though. Very stylistic. Good mise-en-scene.