Here’s a different type of Vanyaland Challenge: Usually we try to see if you, dear reader, can make it through a fully terrible video, like something from Paris Hilton, Limp Bizkit, or one of Patrice Wilson’s latest pedo-pop creations.
But this challenge isn’t about pulling the plug or tapping out — it’s about seeing just how far you can go.
Euphemism For Magic created the “Nickelstats” video a few days ago, and it’s been all over our social media feeds since. It’s simple, but effective: An edited clip of Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger telling you to “Look at this graph,” from 2005 single “Photograph,” while he holds up a, well, he’s holding up a graph.
Then he looks right into your soul.
Watch it below via YouTube, though it’s probably best viewed via Vine, and see how many takes you want/need in your life. We saw one link over the weekend where it amassed 5 million views. EFM’s is up to 250,000, though another YouTube video that straight up jacked the edit has generated about the same number.
Euphemism For Magic isn’t sweating the copycats, though.
“I appreciate the concern of you and the others that pointed out the freebooters, but it’s not like I own the original music video,” he or she writes on YouTube. “Claiming ownership of such a legendary melody weaved by none other than the prodigal Chad Kroeger would be an affront to the Muses themselves. And we may be privy to the glorious spectacle of his strapping face, his locks of gold and goatee of… hair, none can lay claim to such beauties. Only can we hold his image in our hearts, forever and ever, yearning. Also either way I don’t give much a shit. It does annoy me when they do it to other people’s original work, though.”
God bless.