Posted on 02/20/2010 2:53:17 PM PST by Chet 99
On February 16, 2010, two guys got in a fight on a bus in Oakland. Another passenger caught it on video. Results: One bloody nose, and instant internet history.
The video, shown after the break, is officially titled AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT I AM A MOTHERF***ER (named for the words on the fight winner's shirt), but the meme has also spread under the names "Amber Lamps" (for the loser's slurred request for an amulance) and "Epic Beard Man" (out of support for the winner).
Fight videos attract crowds. A San Francisco bus fight last October earned nearly a million views on YouTube (and a couple million for copies). A 2007 fight on the NYC subway got 441 thousand views. Fifty-five thousand views for this train fight, nearly 800 thousand for this one. Even a camcorder pointed at TV footage of a fight in India racked up 73 thousand views.
But in three days, the Oakland bus fight has logged over two million views, again not counting hundreds of thousands of views for the multiple exact copies on other accounts (a stupefying if sometimes useful YouTube phenomenon) and followups. It also inspired video remixes, mashups, YouTube replies, spinoffs (there's a cult around a hipster girl silently watching the fight), and surprisingly talented drawings like the one above. Why all the attention over just another public fight?
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Do not pick a fight with EBM.
Wanna see an INTERVIEW with him? He’s quite a character.
Very interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mva-agTtQXo&feature=related
Black Betty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0TOeo4noI
These Hitler spoofs are getting old, but this one is great
Hitler finds out about Epic Beard Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxcNzz4PMI
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The people of this country are endlessly inventive. Most of what they invent is crap on youtube, but still, they’re inventive.
(best comment on the linked thread!)
That Mortal Kombat version is a howl...
The hot chick with earphones (sitting next to one of the combatants and ignoring everything) may partly explain the popularity of the video.
Ole EBM moved to the front of the bus to avoid a confrontation BD went up there and hit him. I wonder if the police are going after the girls rifling through EBM,s bag?
Amber Lamps!
She has a fan group on Facebook.
This video is the movie GRAN TORINIO should’ve been.
Epic beard man, his words are wise and his beard is epic.
Lead us, EBM!
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Looks to me like they’re both jerks. No heros here.
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