Viral Friday: I’m F*cking Ben Affleck

Written by Niels Bellaar on February 29th, 2008 |

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Jimmy Kimmel: I’m F*cking Ben Affleck. About a month ago comedian Sarah Silverman embarrassed her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel with the hilarious song ‘I’m Fucking Matt Damon’. But now the popular talk show host takes revenge on his lady with the video ‘I’m Fucking Ben Affleck’. The runner up spot is for Star Wars according to a 3 year old. A cute 3 year old girl explains the plot of the science fiction movie Star Wars: Episode IV. Nokia completes this week’s top 3 with Nokia Morph Concept. Since the beginning of this week visitors of the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exposition in the New York Museum Of Modern Art can admire the Nokia Morph concept.

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1. Jimmy Kimmel: I’m F*cking Ben Affleck

About a month ago comedian Sarah Silverman embarrassed her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel with the hilarious song ‘I’m Fucking Matt Damon‘. But now the popular talk show host takes revenge on his lady with the video ‘I’m Fucking Ben Affleck’. In the video Jimmy reveals he has a relation with Matt Damon’s good friend Ben Affleck. In the video we see Jimmy and Ben romantically staring out of the window, doing their nails and taking romantic walks.

Numerous celebrities participate in the video; Affleck gets a cake delivery by Brad Pitt and gets sung to ‘We Are The World’ style by, amongst others, Robin Williams and Macy Gray. Other collaborating celebrities are Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Don Cheadle, Benji and Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Huey Lewis, Josh Groban, Christina Applegate, Rebecca Romijn and Meatloaf. Kimmel’s revenge song got over 5 millions views last week!

Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Scrubs) and Seth Rogen (Superbad, Knocked Up) try to make a buck out of the ‘argument’ between Damon and Kimmel and came up with the spoof ‘I’m F*cking Seth Rogen‘. (Source: RTL Nieuws, Trouw, AD)

2. Star Wars according to a 3 year old

“What was expected to be a short movie that would circulate within a small circle of friends has turned into something much more very quickly.” The owner of the weblog “Fist of Blog” videotaped his three year old daughter while she explained the plot of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and posted the video on his YouTube account. He never expected the video to be so popular; 3.5 million views in 6 days! The maker of the video states his daughter “…wasn’t coached to say anything, nor was she forced to make the video.” Almost 1.000 blogs posted the video, including Gizmodo, Neatorama, Crunchgearand Micro Persuasion.

3. Nokia Morph Concept

Since the beginning of this week visitors of the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exposition in the New York Museum Of Modern Art can admire the Nokia Morph concept. Nokia developed this nanotechnology-based concept phone in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.

Morph is a concept for the development of future mobile phones and shows a radical change in the appearance of future phones. The use of nanotechnology allows the devices to be self-cleaning, transparent, flexible and capable of ‘morphing’ into different shapes. The nearly six minute lasting demonstration video is very popular with over 500.000 views in just four days time. (Source: Mobile Cowboys)

4. Hey Jude

Hero Ha, born in 2003 in the Korean capital Seoul, is a true musical wonder and a huge Beatles fan. Despite the fact that he never ever visited an English-speaking country he learned himself a lot of Beatles lyrics. The Korean child star made it to many international newspapers and television channels, including Metro UK, Channel 4, CNN, BBC, KBS-TV and NineMSN. For more information about Hero Ha, check his YouTube account or Naver Blog.

5. Gmail Art

For the making of the viral video “Gmail Art” from Google Russia the following materials where required: 162 meters of gray tape, 45 lego pieces, 32 sticks of plasticine, 18 brushes, 18 square meters of batten, 12 cans of spray paint, 10 liters of white paint, 4 reams of paper, 2 kilograms of millet porridge, 1 printer, 1 hair dryer, 1 mop and 1 saw. Saatchi Moscow created and produced the video to persuade more Russians to use Gmail.

6. Sexy UltraSlo Waterballoon

Alan Teitel from Port Washington, New York is a photography and cinematography specialist with over 20 years of experience with slow motion and 3d. He won two Emmy Awards and got 6 nominations for ‘outstanding work’. On his website UltraSlo are several slow-motion video’s, including one of a falling waterballoon. The waterballoon video is a viral success with about 400.000 views in less than two weeks and postings on serveral weblogs.

7. Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab

In 1991 Reb Bull introduced Red Bull Flugtag, the most spectacular flight spectacle after the Red Bull Air Race. The event, that takes place in cities as San Francisco, Miami, Milan, London and Johannesburg, now also has a 3D online version available, including flight simulator. The game was made by Less Rain and Signal7.

The demo videos of Colmeia.tv and Less Rain show all the possibilities of the Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab. Anyone who wants to know more about the realization of the project can consult the Less Rain blog.

8. The Coke Zero Game

Nonalcoholic beverage manufacturer Coca-Cola launches The Coke Zero Game for the UEFA European Football Championship 2008. North Kingdom from Sweden, known for its awarded game ‘Get the Glass‘, developed the advergame with full screen video, 3D-graphics, woman, fire, cars and adrenaline. For the present the game can only be played in German, but the English version will be live next week. (Source: Brandactivation)

9. AXE Maneater Game

To promote the new deodorant Axe Dark Temptation Unilever developed the online game AXE Maneater. As ‘chocolate man’ you have to try to avoid nasty obstacles such as garbage cans and hysteric woman. The first prize is a brand new Vespa scooter, and every week players can win an iPod Nano Temtation package. The advergame is very popular with several national blogs like Dutchcowboys and bizz, but French, German, Russian, Belgian and Italian blogs like the game as well.

10. Split The Risk

In Holland every year 390 youngsters from 13 to 24 year old die due to risky behaviour. Besides that every year about 220.000 young persons get treated at the emergency department of a hospital. To make youngsters more aware of every day dangers the Dutch safety foundation Consument en Veiligheid created a new TV show: Split the Risk, to be seen from February 25th on TMF.

Besides the TV show the campaign includes an online game where youngsters can learn to be more alert. Several blogs and news sites wrote about the “Split the Risk” campaign which was made by Amsterdam based advertising agency Noise.