Tulsa is upping its viral video game.
Earlier this week, we told you about Sweet Brown impersonator Michelle Dobyne. Her reaction to a Tulsa apartment fire has earned 27,000,000 views on Facebook since it went live on Sunday afternoon. She's now signed with an agent, launched "Not Tuday" t-shirts, and even received the "Songify This" treatment:
When we first covered this breaking news story, we questioned Michelle's intentions. Was her reaction genuine, or was she putting on a show for the cameras in hopes of being a viral video star? I have a feeling it's the latter, and you know what, good for her. Sure, it may ignite copycat arsons from folks looking to get Internet famous for 15 minutes, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get ahead in the world. We didn't get mad when Mike Gundy and Jenni Carlson conspired together to raise their national profiles, did we?
Sweet Dobyne's surge to the top of the Facebook video charts overshadowed another great Tulsa viral video. On January 3rd, some person released a security footage compilation video featuring his former next door neighbors. It gives a unique, behind the scenes look of what the white trash drug addicts on COPS do before the cops actually arrive. Here's a description from The Tulsa World:
A Tulsa home surveillance video posted to YouTube on Jan. 3 depicting odd neighbor behavior has more than 460,000 views.
The video, titled “Neighbors Compilation,” contains footage from multiple videos over 2013 and 2014 and includes fighting (9:40), cars speeding and drifting on the street (13:30), a man pulling a gun on another person (16:20) and more. Though it doesn’t say an address or location of where the video was taken, the user’s name that posted the video is “Watching Tulsa.”