I recently captured some crazy antics of a friend on my camera in video mode and decided I would try a "test" to see what happens when I released the video into the wild. So today I uploaded the file to both google video and You Tube; two of the leading video destinations on the web. However, I am not going to advertise the video directly here or anywhere else. I want to see what kind of life it might be able to take on it's own. I just uploaded it and on the 1year anniversary of the upload I will post the results of how "popular" the video got on it's own merits.
Obviously there are many reasons why the video may not gain any attention at all. First off it may never pop-up for anyone to see. I am trusting in ultimate randomness to get just one person to see it and then like (or hate) it enough to tell others about it. I am fully prepared to report that nobody but me ever saw the video at this time next year. However, if by some miracle the video starts to spread across the net then it will be even more interesting to see how popular it gets
I doubt if my friend will have a happy day if the video gets popular!
If the video gets popular I will not only report the details at that point but I will let you know what the video is. If, however, it doesn't become popular, I will leave it hidden to protect the identity of my friend.