In May of 2005, a little-known video sharing website took it’s first figurative breath. Five year’s later, YouTube is the third most popular website on the Internet and – believe it or not – the second most popular search engine. With 2 billion videos watched daily, YouTube is changing the world.
It is also changing lives. Like mine.
Three summers ago, I started uploading video blogs to my wildy unpopular Xanga journal – inspired by none other than Rosie O’Donnell and Ross Mathews (aka Ross the Intern). In fact, I stole borrowed the term “talky blog” from Ross.
It never occurred to me that people would enjoying sharing in my life’s journey. On July 30, 2007, everything changed… when I caught my neighbor masturbating. Somehow, the stars aligned in YouTube’s search algorithms and my voyeuristic video became an instant hit. It’s no “David After Dentist“, but I’m proud of the little splash that I made.
259 videos later (excluding the handful that I deleted), 29,079,903 people have watched 110 years worth of my talky blogs – a balance that someday I’ll have to settle in hell.
Fact: Without YouTube, there would be no Davey Wavey. I’d just be Dave – a fate that I’d probably find equally wonderful, but a bit less exciting. YouTube has changed my life. And since you’re here, in some small way, it has probably changed yours.
So, in honor of YouTube’s 5th birthday, I bring you five of my favorite under-discovered talky blogs from the last three years. They are my hidden gems, if you will. Happy Birthday, YouTube!
May 17, 2010 at 8:01 pm
i went to that graveyard last year!! why didnt i know that davey wavey went before me? ;-;”’ is there some sort of psychical or anything that is positive about having a foreskin or not having a foreskin??
May 17, 2010 at 8:50 pm
i can understand why you are so popular, you smart, wise, and great to llok at keep up the good work looking forward to many years with you
May 17, 2010 at 11:38 pm
I much prefer a cut dick. Love the way they look, feel and taste. Yummy.
May 18, 2010 at 7:39 am
I must have been an early Davey Wavey adopter/adapter… thanks, Davey, you’re always welcome on mytube… youtube, othertube, etc. I love having you on my screen.
May 18, 2010 at 10:29 am
You always want what you don’t have. I for one am cut but love the extra skin to play with on a dick. I spent four months in London and
became addicted to uncut.
May 18, 2010 at 11:42 am
This is so much fun – Davey Wavey in college! http://wickydkewl.xanga.com/?nextdate=6/2/2007+20:25:14.833&direction=n
May 18, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Thanks for putting up these “best” blogs for the YouTube celebration. I enjoyed them all!!!!
Your vid on creating one’s self is very true, however it’s a little too focused on the individual. I believe our “reality” is a social construction and that is also true of our own identity. It is through interaction with others that we have and are creating the world in which we live and the self we are conscious of during most of our waking hours.
For example, I think you are correct that Canadians may be in crisis about foreskins because of interaction with Americans, U.S. media and other aspects of our culture.
American males are very focused on their penises: “How big are you?” “cut or uncut?” “shaved, trimmed or natural?” etc, etc. Guys in Europe and the UK are much less focused on these things.
In the 19th century through interaction with physicians, clergymen and among themselves our great-grand parents constructed an ideology and reality that circumcision was important and necessary to prevent masturbation lest boys become sinners condemned to hellfire or mentally ill. My point here is that we created that reality and acted upon it. By the early 20th century more than 80% of American boys/men were circumcised. We just “took-it-for-granted” that the “natural” thing to do was circumcise.
By the 1960s we began the difficult process of constructing a new reality: that circumcision was unnatural, caused undue pain and suffering, and lessened sexual pleasure.
What is interesting is how young people through interaction with each other, sharing with each other and seeing each other as sex became more “available,” created a new reality that being uncut was natural and healthy. The medical community learned to re-define circumcision from ever greater numbers of patients refusing to have their baby boys circumcised. By the time Baby Boomers began having children the trend to leaving baby boys uncut was seen in their children. And then their children began, in ever greater numbers to leave boys uncut and to define being uncut as “good.” At least by the late 80s, we began to approach just 60% cut and a whopping 40% uncut.
Now when a guy goes into a public shower, there are enough cut and uncut penises that embarrassment is greatly lessened. But the presence of a greater “mixed population” of cut and uncut guys, the greater access to porn from all over the world, the wider experience and interaction between cut and uncut guys, and the new debate over whether there is a link between cancer and being uncut, have created a “crisis of meaning” in the U.S regarding circumcision. And, man do we see the crisis in action through your recent post regarding foreskins.
One or more competing re-definitions of reality will come to the fore. The debate will never end. But sooner or later there will be a new socially created reality that we will take for granted.
BTW, I am cut and I am very happy with the way I am. However, I wholeheartedly wish to see uncut guys become the basic norm for American males.
May 18, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Please post some naked pics of your cute self!!! -
May 18, 2010 at 7:45 pm
(*chuckles loudly*) That’s funny unless it’s true, it’s too painful to trip over your own dick to laugh about.
Cheers!
May 18, 2010 at 8:48 pm
You’ve gotta know Davide to really appreciate this statement. You should have seen the picture he sent some of his friends. You only wish, Davide.
May 19, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Davey, although I missed you when you came to Australia recently, I didn’t miss your Blog.
Interesting to hear about you and YouTube…and that you launched your talky-blog in late July of 2007.
I started my CairnsBlog.net the very same month – on the 3rd July!
Although I write about local issues in cairns, North Queensland Australia, I still get great satisfaction by sharing ideas and facilitating discussion, just like you do.
Nice to share the Blogshere with you Davey!
Mike(y)
December 18, 2010 at 5:59 pm
When the video about the graveyard switched to Davey screaming w/ ketchup in his mouth it scared me so much I dropped my iPod on the floor >:(