If you are a regular Youtube user you have hardly missed the recent "Hitler video remix" meme. It all got started when someone took Hitler's worst rage burst scene from the movie "der Untergang - the Downfall". They then added the new English subtitles for the German dialogue , suggesting that instead of Hitler realising the war is lost, his outburst was because his Xbox Live account was shut down because of cheating. The clip was hilarious and has already resulted hundreds (?) of similar clips, the reason for an outburst ranging from unwanted Superbowl results to Hitler realising Santa Claus does not exist.
Strike while the iron is hot. Start a site dedicated to these videos. The site should meet at least following requirements:
- Ability to rate videos so when can separate masterworks from crappy videos (which, unfortunately, most of these are). There is a popularity listing on Youtube too but it doesn't work too well, as it lists also old propaganda movies etc. Also the ability for visitors to comment videos .
- Editor's pick section, where you can present new promising videos and old classics.
- Top ten list on the main page.
- Ability to easily add new subtitles. I'm sure there are thousands of great ideas for new subtitles but not enough knowledge or time to put them to practice. The easiest way would be adding a sufficient number of text input boxes, accompanied by the original line (and tone of it). You could then make Youtube videos of the best of them.
- History of the meme (for journalists and bloggers to read and link).
How to get visitors to your site? One good way to get started is a product a number of your own videos. Just remember to provide each video with a text "VISIT WWW.RAGINGHITLER.COM FOR MORE VIDEOS". If you can't figure out good ideas by yourself, ask your friends and on Internet forums, or use the imagination of visitors of your site as mentioned above. I have also some suggestions:
- Hitler is made redundant because of worsening economical situation
- Hitler became the latest victim of the Nigerian email scams
- The staff of the bunker found Hitler's secret Toblerone chocolate bar cache and consumed it all
- Stalin rejected Hitler's friend request on Facebook
- Hard drive of Hitler's laptop broke up and no one never took a back-up
- The generals took a joyride with Hitler's Mercedes without permission and crashed it
- Hitler gets a parking ticket
- Hitler wished for a new iPod for a Christmas present but got a pink Creative Zen instead
- Hitler tries in vain to establish WLAN network between his desktop PC, Xbox 360, DSL modem and Eva's MacBook
- Mussolini keeps sending irritating application requests to Hitler on Facebook
