NEWS Personalities: success Story

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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"</span><b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Charlie Bit My Finger – Again!</b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">",</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> more simply known as </span><b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Charlie Bit My Finger</b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> or </span><b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Charlie Bit Me</b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> (referring to a quotation in the video), is a 2007 Internet </span>viral video <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">famous for formerly being the most viewed </span>YouTube <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">video of all time.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> On December 22, 2011 it reached 400 million views, and remains the most viewed YouTube video that is not a professional music video. As of May 20, 2012, the video has over 450 million views. The clip features two </span>English<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> brothers, aged three and one. In the video, the younger brother, Charlie, bites the finger of his older brother, Harry. The boys' father uploaded the video online in May 2007.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When considering some of the more successful viral videos on the Internet, undoubtedly you cannot leave Charlie Bit My Finger behind.  The title of the viral video actually refers to a quote within the video itself and considered as the most famous of all time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It is estimated that over 357 million people have already viewed the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video online.  What is impressive with this figure is that the Charlie Bit My Finger has actually beaten out some of the professional music videos online.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Charlie Bit My Finger viral video actually made its way to the Internet when their dad decided to upload it online sometime in May of 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Some people speculate that the popularity of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video may be attributed to its funny and seemingly harmless nature.  Not to mention that people generally enjoy a good laugh, more so, on the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Meet Charlie</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For those who are unfamiliar with the clip Charlie Bit My Finger, it actually features two babies aged three and one.  Charlie is the younger of the two brothers who are equally cute and entertaining.  The older brother who is sitting behind Charlie is offering his finger and asking him to bite it slightly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">All of a sudden, Charlie decided to bite the finger and wouldn’t let go.  That’s when the older brother started crying and saying Charlie Bit My Finger while Charlie on the other hand starts breaking out into giggles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Charlie’s Equally Famous Brother</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Although the viral video has been titled Charlie Bit My Finger popularity, his brother shares the limelight equally.  Some people do not know that it was Harry who blurted out the expression Charlie Bit My Finger in the viral video.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Davies-Carr siblings have gained quite a following from the viral video which was only intended to capture the moments while the boys were growing up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Father & the Finger Biting</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">According to the father of the Davies-Carr boys, he did not find anything specifically funny or amusing about the whole Charlie Bit My Finger episode initially.  In fact, he said that, “it didn’t particularly stand out.”  This was until he began transferring what he had recorded on his video camera into the computer a few weeks later.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">He then began playing over and over the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video before it actually struck him as somewhat hilarious.  One comment even said that what they found extremely funny in the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video was that Charlie seemed to be laughing at getting away with what he had done.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Incidental Fame for Charlie & Harry</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Charlie Bit My Finger viral video was shot in England where the Davies-Carr family resides.  There was no intention to upload it on the Internet to make the kids popular.  The father only uploaded the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video to the Internet so that it could be watched by the godfather of the boys who was residing in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This means that the father had no idea of the power of the Internet as well as its potential reach.  Unintentionally he became responsible for creating a viral video of his sons via the Charlie Bit My Finger upload.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Views on Charlie</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Since the Charlie Bit My Finger video has gone viral there have been plenty of appreciative views.  In fact, the father of the Davies-Carr boys say that he receives many beautiful comments and messages from those who have seen the video.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Because of the numerous views that the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video got it actually became the second most watched video online on August of 2009.  By October of the same year, it has taken over the top spot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Other Recognitions of Charlie Bit My Finger</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It was evident that the amount of interest generated by the popularity of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video was still on a consistent rise.  Aside from taking over the most watched online video, it also got other recognitions in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Charlie Bit My Finger viral video got the most number of favorite votes among online viewers and was also the second most discussed uploaded video in the United Kingdom at least.  These are very hard statistics to achieve regardless of whatever type of online video it is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Longevity of the Charlie video</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Based on a report from the Visible Measures which makes a compilation of the most viewed online videos using 150 video sharing websites as a basis, the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video was ranked thirteenth of all time.  This is quite a feat considering the number of videos that are being uploaded regularly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Moreover, it took over three years to surpass the popularity of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video.  Since then, it has been surpassed by many other videos but has remained as one of the most viewed among those which are not under the category of professional music videos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Undoubtedly, popularity has its own rewards and this holds true even for Harry and Charlie.  Based on the popularity of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video, they now have their own video series, blog, and t-shirts including limited edition calendars which have been relatively successful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The other videos that have been uploaded by their father have also gained successes similar to those of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral video and have also featured their third brother, Jasper.</span></div>
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 The 2007 web video "Charlie Bit My Finger" has been viewed 417.6 million times and is now the most-watched noncommercial video in YouTube history, reports the <em style="font-style: oblique; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</em>. The newspaper checks in on the UK family that became inadvertent digital-age stars and finds that brothers Harry, now 7, and Charlie, 5, have become a brand of their own, if somewhat begrudgingly.</div>
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Their dad says the video has brought in about $160,000 for the family, thanks to a revenue-sharing partnership with YouTube. They're even working on a "Charlie" app for iPhone and Android and perhaps a line of children's books. (The family is represented by the marketing company Viral Spiral, which also handles the clients behind the sneezing baby panda video.) “I wouldn’t be upset if people stopped watching,” says dad. “People bring their own view and make assumptions based on no knowledge of us, but we’ve gone beyond the point where we can be angry at what they say."</div>
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