E-xemplar: Flex Your Rights Goes Viral

01:30 PM Sep 26, 2006

That much-abused phrase for that much-imagined place, Virality, has been earned at the know-it-when-I-see-it threshold by one of the DIA asylum's more recent inmates, Flex Your Rights.

At Viral Video Chart, a site indexing online video buzziness, a MySpace upload of their recent video Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters rates as the 17th-most-linked video with nearly 200,000 views.

Meanwhile, a Google video version registers over 300,000 views.

FYR Executive Director Steve Silverman points out that there's a more recent and more authoritative version of this video on YouTube (another 120k views), but that the earlier edition blew up because some bright spark posted it not under its given name, but under the descriptive title "How to avoid being arrested" -- show me a teen or twentysomething who wouldn't click that teaser. Boing Boing linked the page, and the rest is, you know, virality.

Nice job, for a video well worth the watch.*

(You can also order it in hard copy form Flex Your Rights.)

*Disclaimer: This video alludes to constitutional rights which may be revoked with or without warning.

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