Viral Friday: Shii – The Wii For Women

Written by Niels Bellaar on April 10th, 2009 | 3 comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Shii – The Wii for Women. Belgian comedy show M!LF introduced the Shii featuring games like Steamy Iron II, Kitchen Queens, Shave Invaders, Extreme Knitting IV and Suckend Life. The runner up spot is for The Search For Mary. Take the Improv Everywhere Frozen Grand Central and the T-Mobile’s Dance flashmobs, mix things up a bit and you will find Mary. Stop Domestic Violence completes this week’s top 3. Keira Knightley stars in this powerful new ad for Women’s Aid, which aims to raise awareness of domestic violence.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!

1. Shii – The Wii For Women

We all know the Wii and the huge amount of fun one can have playing with it and now, especially for woman, Belgian comedy show M!LF (Man! Liberation Front) introduced the Shii. The Shii is an interactive game console witch features games like Steamy Iron II, Kitchen Queens, Shave Invaders, Extreme Knitting IV and Suckend Life. The sketch is a huge internet success with over 2.5 million views on YouTube, Dailymotion and MetaCafe.

2. The Search For Mary

The Belgians have a TV show called “Op zoek naar Maria” (the search for Mary) in which contestants can win the main part in the musical version of “The Sound Of Music“. To gain some publicity the producers carefully watched Improv Everywhere’s Frozen Grand Central and T-Mobile’s Dance flashmobs and mixed things up a bit. With six duplicates the video over 1.7 million views since March 23. Also available is a behind the scenes video.

3. Stop Domestic Violence

Women’s Aid, the Britain’s national domestic violence charity that works to end violence against women and children, released this shocking new short film, directed by Atonement and Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley. The ad was made by advertising agency Grey London. “I wanted to take part in this advert for Women’s Aid because while domestic violence exists in every section of society we rarely hear about it,” said Knightley. “Domestic violence affects one in four women at some point in their lifetime and kills two women every week.”
(Source: CR Blog)

4. Best Funeral Ever

What if your loved one that just passed away doesn’t have many friends? The funeral will be a small one. 30 Improv Everywhere agents showed up at a random funeral they found in the obituary section of the newspaper. They picked a man who had very few surviving relatives and then showed up to his funeral to make it truly awesome. Watch the video and see how it all happened. The video got almost 550.000 views since March 31 and over 5.000 people left a comment on YouTube. Oh, and the whole thing is a fake, everyone is an actor. April Fool’s Day 2009. Read the whole story on the Improv Everywhere site.

5. Laptop Hunters: Giampaolo

Earlier CP+B made the “Lauren” ad for Microsoft. Lauren had to buy a laptop for under $999 and obviously ended up with a Windows laptop because Macs are more expensive than PCs. Gadget blog Gizmodo got an email from one of their readers who was willing to give her his 17″ Mac laptop for free. The big question is; is there someone else willing to give their Mac to Giampaolo, Microsofts new Laptop Hunter? Giampaolo’s hunt for the perfect laptop got over 466.000 views since April 2.

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