More Zidane-Headbutt Goodness

Hey folks -- first things first: Journals Editor Jeff has posted this week's Guest Editor's Picks over in his Pixel Pusher blog -- check it out.

So, on with the headbutting. As I was doing my previous post about the Zidane headbutt-inspired video being featured on video-sharing site YouTube, I got to looking around to see what other people were doing with it: YouTube search results for "Zidane Headbutt"

There are a few hundred results -- some are straight lifts off of the TV, others are remixes and parodies and re-enactments of varying quality.

For another view of things, I went over to freakishly-odd (and occasionally Not Safe For Work -- NSFW) YTMND.com, (which stands for "You're The Man Now, Dog." Why? It's a little complicated) where it looks like people's riffs on the Zidane headbutt have taken over the site for the past week or so.

What they do over at YTMND is typically take a short video clip or animated gif and set it to music -- there are established conventions and cliches that people use.

For example, in the "[Person's Name] Doesn't Change Facial Expressions" genre, all the creations are set to Steve Winwood's 'Valerie,' as you can see in the original, Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Change Facial Expressions.

For the Zidane headbutt, there are now hundreds of variations, a lot of them involving video game and other pop culture references -- you can see some examples below:

From left to right and top to bottom, we've got here:

• Katamari Damacy
• Nintendo
• Star Wars
• SNL's "Night at the Roxbury"
• MC Hammer
• Fidel Castro

And that's just off the first page of search results for "Zidane."

Even if you don't know the specific things they're referencing, they're still pretty funny. Or at least I think so.

Just more ways to waste time for a weekend. Which I hope you have a good one... of.

Thanks -- Joe
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youtube, zidane
headbutt, ytmnd, remix