Star Wars Kid

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Star Wars Kid


Picture Taken On: November 8, 2002
Place: Le Seminaire St-Joseph de in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Behind the Camera: Ghyslain Raza
In the picture:Ghyslain Raza
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In November of 2002, Ghyslain Raza a student that went to le Seminaire St-Joseph de Trois-Rivieres^[1], Quebec, Canada decided to take advantage of his school’s recording studio. Imitating the Darth Maul character from Star Wars he jumped, danced and twirled around the studio using a tennis ball retriever in place of Darth Maul’s double-edged light saber. Chubby Ghyslain and his less than graceful moves were recorded and apparently forgotten for months. Then in April 2003, students at Ghyslain’s school (Michaël Caron, Jérôme Laflamme and Jean-Michel Rheault) found the recording and quickly began sharing it with their friends with the file name, 'Jackass_starwars_funny.wmv'. It ended up on the p2p program Kazaa and weblogs started to host the video. Not long after, millions around the world were downloading the video. In Nov 2006 the Viral marketing company, The Viral Factory, collated page impression figures from websites such as YouTube and Google Videos. They determined that this video as of Nov 2006 had been viewed 900 million times.^[2]

For more information see Star_Wars_Kid

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