My Favorite Video On Youtube

I've always been an avid visitor and user of YouTube, ever since I happened upon its existence in 2006. So much so, that I've encountered too many videos on there that I've loved and put into my "Favorites," that it is hard to find one that I could consider a definitive favorite of mine. Nonetheless, one video comes to mind in which I never get tired of watching:

Dad Cop 2 is a humorous parody of buddy cop movies created by SecretAgentBob, a channel that is notable for its immensely popular Charlie the Unicorn videos and other absurd animations. To me, Dad Cop 2 embodies everything that is great about YouTube and today's online culture. Because of the unlimited possibilities of what kind of content is created nowadays, there has been an overabundance of randomness on the Internet. You can literally find anything, and most likely be flabbergasted at what you find. Some of my favorite kind of humor is spontaneous, ridiculous, unorthodox randomness that would make a normal, sane person scratch their head in confusion. People on YouTube have popularized this kind of humor in the form of Internet memes videos, editing existing copyrighted shows/videos together to create abominations consisting of potentially inappropriate material known as "YouTube Poops," and just comedy generated from unexpected references or just plain stupid, but ironically clever writing. I would classify Dad Cop 2 as the latter, and I think videos like these are relevant because Internet culture allows people to generate content that you would never think of seeing on regular broadcast television in the past. It gives normal people the chance to create goofy videos to a dedicated niche audience that appreciates this kind of random humor. Today, this audience continues to grow. It is also a testament to just how much creativity and user-generated content are more encouraged today compared to many years ago. It proves that anybody who has a creative mind can upload anything on YouTube and potentially find a dedicated audience that appreciates the kind of message portrayed. In the case of Dad Cop 2, the absurdly idiotic dialogue between the characters ("Mr. Kill would always murder his victims...until they died."), every character in the diagetic world wearing mustaches, and using the same footage for establishing the location of "Miami, Florida" for "Beijing, China" are just some of the crazy examples as to what makes this video so hilariously stupid. And yet it's one of my favorites because the creators of the film had nothing riding on them the same way that television producers do, and they were able to go all-out with not only this video, but the rest of the videos on their channel. It's this freedom that makes YouTube and other video websites so special compared to broadcast television.