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What's happened here?Sorry for my damn near two months of disappearing. I've been inordinately busy with my new website PandaSmash.com, so my blog ended up slipping low on my priority list, and then, the inertia of not blogging carried me through the end of the year. I hope you'll come check out Panda Smash, and know that I'll start blogging again when things slow down.
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We're huge in the Netherlands
So today, around 4 pm, I was digging around our site, Panda Smash, when I noticed the view count on one of our videos, our Shopping Cart Joust, flying up. Like, each time I'd refresh the page, two or three more people had watched it. Sometimes five or 10.
I texted Paul immediately. Together, we tried to figure it out.
Our conclusion: One of the links we put out there had led to our site's first ever mini-explosion.
Unfortunately, the logs on our server don't update until the next day, so we couldn't definitively determine where all the traffic was coming from. Until around 2 am today, when the logs updated, and we found the answer.
Our video was on the front page of some popular video blog... in the Netherlands. http://www.flabber.nl/ is the address.
When we made the site, we did it with every intention of getting huge. But there's still something that's beyond surreal about clicking over to a Dutch website and seeing YOUR FACE on their front page.
Now, everything is in Dutch, so we had to go to the online translators to figure out what they were saying about us... and the translators aren't perfect.
The basic gist of it:
- Some of the people liked the video and found it funny, commended our effort, etc.
- Many, many more believed we were, quote, "pussys" [sic] who are afraid of pain. We were chastised for wearing helmets, pillows and wrist guards. I was personally targeted as being the MOST afraid of pain (which, by the way, is completely accurate. Even though at the time of shooting, "AJ" was without health insurance.)
- One guy really liked my "South Park" reference at the end of the video
- My favorite comment: The guy who called us "Giggling Americans."
Sure, I'm being moted by Dutch people thousands and thousands of miles away. But today was still the most entertaining day we've had so far with the site. We're really looking forward to bridging more cultural gaps with the site as the weeks and months go on.
Although I don't think any of them will get Brunch Bus.
Posted @ 11:39 PM | E-mail Sam
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