This kid has a great vision of himself. Imagination, determination, clearly some nascent kick ass:
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He’s got sooo much, it’s just that he’s missing a little . . . something . . . something that is critical for real success.
So he does his damnedest and posts it on youtube.
Now, I’m sure he might have been a little embarrassed when some unhelpful sod pointed out that he looks like an idiot. But then, the kindness and self-interest of strangers takes over and some Samaritan reaches into Youtube, grabs the video, adds some of their time and skill, and outcomes our kid with reality a little closer to his original vision:
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Sure, there’s a little irony in there. A little dig. But certainly, the kid’s kick-ass is coming to the surface.
Someone else sees the work of the Samaritan and thinks, “Shoot, I can do better than that . . . ” and so he or she(wouldn’t that be great?) does:
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Each remix adds quality to the original. In the second case, the re-mixer even skipped out of star wars, but it worked, and the kid’s kernel remains.
Every remix adds views. The Star Wars Kid grows and grows until the original video has been seen almost 3 million times. (With each remix having another 100k to 1 million more views.)
With the help of strangers and their skills, the “Star Wars Kid” enters the halls of pop culture iconography and will live forever.
The kid had chutzpah.
On good days with Red Rover, I think we are pretty smart. On tough days, I think our main attribute might just be chutzpah.
We hereby promise to have our Red Rover code be open source. Thereby opening ourselves up to any good Samaritans with their own motivations and remixes that will help reveal the kick ass-ness of the original vision.
Just in case we’re that kid.
