Letters to the Editor
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Keep the Bunnies!!
Hilarious! I love the bunnies. I look forward to hearing from them every week. I only wish they were on more often...
Thanks for making my Friday.
Zskirt
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LOL!
Oh my! That was a riot! Didn't think a tiny thing could curse like a sailor! I love it.
Also, a note to Anonymous - I'm constantly amazed that people like you keep coming back to watch this if you don't like it. And really, with a comment like yours, I would think you would've liked this episode. Lastly, you don't even have the courage to give yourself a screen name... let me guess, so you can write another nasty comment later on? Of course.
Keep them coming rabbits!
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Rabbit Bites
Liked that one to,keep them coming. Buns and Chou are so cutie and I enjoy their humor and the little vignettes. I am sure the complainers and the Whiners will be out waiting to jump on you again. Note to all complainers, if the rabbits bother you why do you torment yourself by continuing to click on their videos. There are other areas of Salon you could go to and yet you keep coming back to attack Video Dog. Don't click on it and save your three minutes and you won't have anger and hysteria. Its like you are just looking for a way to send your blood pressure up. Its obvious the game you are playing here. You probably had a bunny when you were younger and they couldn't stand you and ran away and you have never recovered as we can see from the pathetic letters I have seen from one writer who writes under several names. I see the NY times blog section has caught the bunnies videos and liked them. Your nobody unitl some Bunny loves you.
Sienalake
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yoo hoo! EDITORS!
I don't like these videos. I don't find them funny and I cannot understand most of what they are saying. But I gave them a chance and now I just skip them. This is as far as my investment takes me: I have the will to skip them.
I like the hometown baghdad series but, with no other context/content, they simply don't play as well as they used to... when we get nothing but this series, it starts to feel like a cheat. I've now seen enough of these to be convinced that this would make a compelling long-format doc that explores the day to day lives of these guys. So it is starting to feel like I'm screening rough assemblies of footage... They are beginning to feel incomplete because they no longer emerge as tidbits and fragments amongst the other videos. VD is really doing this project a disservice by not offering Other new content and allowing these little gems to breathe.
Bill Maher: eh? I'm indifferent but you really don't even choose his best material.
And this basically sums up my opinion of your current product... because there is nothing else on here to respond to anymore.
Also, it is amazing to think that the Porsche demographic includes BOTH Rabbit Bites AND Bill Maher fans. Go Porsche!
Remember the Craig Ferguson monologues? The rubber balls in San Francisco? The political clips (there's an election next year, by the way)?
Any chance you will stop ignoring these letters (or lurking) and comment on the obvious format shift?
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Salon, please comment on the format shift
I agree with Nathan. If you are going to keep posting bunnies and Hometown Baghdad with no commentary day after day, please announce that this is your intention. It is really weird how this stuff keeps going up even though so many people think it sucks.
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Heather: Let It DROP
Heather H. is one of the editors of VideoDog and has long played favorites with Rabbit Bites. Maybe she's friends with the producer, maybe she just likes rabbits. I do know the producer Nicholas Quixote, has written her gushing compliments in the letters section, usually in response to columns which cover the same topics as his videos.
I had the impression Video Dog was supposed to be wide ranging, but Rabbit Bites has become its default filler.
It's not that funny or interesting. And now one day after her not-funny Alec Baldwin article, we get a not-funny video on the same topic. Let it drop, guys.
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I Have a Novel Fucking Idea
Instead of posting a spoof of the videotaped event using these hossenfeffer-to-be...
WHY IN THE FUCK DON'T YOU JUST POST THE DAMNED VIDEO ITSELF?!
I mean, this IS Video Dog, right?
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Episodic content is the reason we have RSS readers
Here's the thing - If people genuinely enjoy Rabbit Bites or Hometown Baghdad they have the option of plunking an entry for each into the RSS reader of their choice. One or two installments of each is more than enough exposure to allow people to decide whether or not they want to follow these sites on their own.
I always understood Video Dog to be a sort of running list of interesting or amusing viral videos; The format has obviously shifted, and that's the cause of so many people's frustration. Will someone from Salon please take a few minutes to explain what's going on? It doesn't seem to fit the purpose of the section to simply act as a syndicated feed for two other websites' content.
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Bleah
Used to check into VideoDog every day. Liked the freshness of the humor.
Now I've stopped. Never liked the rabbits and now they're breeding like.... And the Baghdad stuff is just weird and sorta depressing.
New material please?
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'New' Dog needs to remember Old Tricks.
Why do I get the impression that the editor of Video Dog hates us?
Is it because:
A) the content --unfunny bunnies, Baghdad, unfunny Maher-- has become so monotonous, repetitive, unvarying and … how shall I put it … uhmmm … Unfunny?
and/or because:
B) Salon has deliberately chosen to completely ignore the rising tide of complaints from its readers/viewers? I mean, such utter editorial DISDAIN is more than mere rudeness. It's unprofessional, and downright INSULTING.
I liked the Old Dog. It always had new tricks.
This 'new' dog needs to relearn those tricks.
Or else you should put him out of our misery. (Please!)
The Dog was successful up to now, bunnies and all, because it had variety. No variety, no reason to visit the Dog.
(Did I mention how monotonously mediocre it has become?)
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PS -- I probably should fess up that I haven't watched this latest addition to the bunny chronicles. Nor have I bothered with Maher. You have to watch Maher rant in bursts of five or six minutes to get the full effect. Not that the effect is always worth the five or six minutes, but …