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)