September 17, 2007
Leave Britney Alone! One of the most-discussed videos of all time
A YouTube user's passionate (and profane!) defense of troubled pop star Britney Spears has become one of that website's most-discussed videos of all time -- in less than a week. USA Today reports.
"The video's creator, who goes by the name Chris Crocker, uploaded his roughly two-minute Leave Britney Alone! video on Monday after Spears' much-ridiculed comeback performance on the MTV Video Music Awards the night before.
By Sunday, Crocker's video had gotten more than 92,000 comments, ranking it No. 7 among the most-discussed videos in YouTube's history. (The No. 1 most-discussed video, Truth about islam from an ex-muslim lady, uploaded a year ago, has received more than 152,000 comments.)
Leave Britney Alone! has been viewed more than 6.5 million times. It's also drawn nearly 1,400 video responses, including one from entertainment blogger Perez Hilton. Crocker stretched his 15 minutes of fame further through interviews with online magazine Salon, radio shock jock Howard Stern, and on CNN and ABC."
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