Child labor in the early 1900's

I was stumbling around the internet when I came upon a site with photos and descriptions of children who were working in America during the period of 1908 - 1912. The page I'm referring to is part of The History Place. To think what so many children missed, namely childhood; they had to endure a world of hardship and suffer at the hands of greed long before their minds were prepared to do this. The accompanying text to one photo moved me to tears when I really thought about it. She was asked her age. "I don't remember. I'm not old enough to work, but do just the same." The full text implies to me she was not whithered and miserable, but this does not help me.

I remember how I counted my age in half years. I remember how eager I was before each birthday, thrilled that I could soon announce to everyone that I was a year older, and wondering what presents I might get. I remember how so often I'd complain to my mother that I was bored, even though I had 50 things I could do. I remember how I didn't work in a coal mine.

The video chain "I never do this, but..."

Some of you (and by some of you I mean possibly Carrie Lee since she's the only person following this blog...Hi Carrie Lee!) may have seen the Sub4Sub video on ralfonzo83's YouTube channel regarding the scourge of sub4sub on Youtube. Well, pointing to this video is a video chain inspired by Christopher Mast and OhCurt. It's one of those fun and spontaneous things that can sometimes happen in social networks.

(I just realized that using the angle bracket things with the number 3 to make a heart screws up a blog post. I rewrote this intro 4 times before realizing that a simple ascii heart was causing problems.)

Here's the story of the video chain:

Two YouTube users, ralfonzo83 and SugarTalker, made a collaboration video regarding the Sub4Sub scourge on YouTube.

ralfonzo83's video

Curt made a video entitled "I NEVER do this, BUT..." with no other purpose than to get viewers to click the link to the Sub4Sub video he had put in the video description.

Curt's video

Christopher, being the cheeky guy he is, made a video similar to Curt, but instead pointing to Curt's video.

Christopher's video

Victor also saw Curt's and Christopher's videos and made one pointing to ralfonzo83. Actually I'm not sure which videos he had seen prior to making his; I don't know where it fits in the timeline. I should ask him, as that'd be the sensible thing to do so I can get this straight.

Victor's video

I saw Christopher Mast's video, got all giggly and childish, and tried madly to get my gear set up so I could make a video pointing to Christopher's video.

My video

Then shortly after I uploaded my video, Cookie messaged me saying she was already preparing a similar video for upload after seeing Christopher's video, but decided instead to make her video point to mine. That was VERY KIND of Cookie, because she simply could have uploaded the video she had already made, and I'd have been out of the growing chain. Instead she made another video entirely, and for that I'm grateful.

Cookie's video


Then it just exploded.

By Monday night there was a branched tree of videos, each pointing to another. The longest chain in the tree was 12 videos long and at one point ralfonzo83 discovered all this or was told about it and created his own video:

ralfonzo83's chain video

You can see a picture of the tree here...

And it kept growing.

Currently the longest chain begins with videos by both andymooseman and kalifstorch25, both of which points to user manniacmind.


Christopher, on his ChristopherMast channel, added a montage video worth watching, because it sorta gives you a quick collection of these videos in a shorter form.

Christopher's montage

And I've got a playlist of all the videos on my channel.

Join the chain, and have fun! :o)

So um, hi

Um, hi.

So, now I have two blogs. Darnit. I forgot that I didn't put my original blog under CanadianNinjaMonkey. I'm not sure what to do now...maybe I'll just mirror all my posts, or maybe I'll merge the blogs somehow, I don't know. I'm constantly making things complicated. So many email addresses, so many web accounts...it all gets very confusing.

Bah.

I suppose I'll just stick with this blog and delete the other one. It only had two posts on it anyway. Anyone from youtube searching for me will dump my name in the url, so they'd better be able to find it.

Regarding my blogtv channel, I do have CanadianNinjaMonkey but because the chat window is so narrow, I went looking for a shorter name. And since for some reason I couldn't think up anything good at the time I went to coyotecult.com and looked at lists of random words.

Things I like about the name "philter"
- It's short, which is why I chose it in the first place
- It's easy to say
- People can call me Phil if they want, which they often prefer
- It's hard to spoof without someone noticing
- It has a cool meaning; it's a magic potion, often a love potion

Things I don't like about the name "philter"
- It's BORING


I didn't do anything this weekend except laundry, and I changed my blogtv background and made a few banners. *sigh*