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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Unclear if latest YouTube craze has deep sociological meaning

A Japanese teenager who might not really be either Japanese or a teenager wins millions of viewers with cutesy, subtly sexual, surreal, mainly pointless videos. Discuss.

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  • Friday, January 18, 2008 07:48 PM

    Soy Sauce Advert

    I suspect she just created a funny little video of her staring at the camera, and when she found that people started watching it, she honed the process.

    The last of the videos is actually very different. It's a response to a Kikkoman Soy Sauce advert.

    http://ctu.spotlightmobile.com/get/yky/kikkomaso-e.swf

    A very strange little animated short promoting Soy Sauce. It's actually pretty funny.

    —Linsel Greene (Portland, OR) Read Linsel Greene (Portland, OR)'s other letters

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