I was offered this example of a "productive fake documentary on YouTube" by a friend, student, or colleague who responded when I crowdsourced my
FakeTube Project via social networks. I later blogged,
spoke, and
published on it (and other videos) as promised.
"The practice of captioning (specifically, cats) started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and the actual type of these images was termed "Caturday": A day when people all around the internet create, submit, send, email and send pictures of lolcat's around the world ..."
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"For over 25 years, filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing films that are unafraid of controversy and tragedy ... History made them famous. Ken Burns made them real."
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