Paul Bosco
The YouTube video “Gingers do have souls”
was first released on January 14th 2010. Michael Copper, the subject, discusses being
redheaded and how it is the cause of bullying at his school. Most of it is directed at him, and he’s “sick
and tired of it.” The main topic that
these bullies choose to say is that gingers don’t have souls. The saying that gingers don’t have souls
comes from the crass TV series, South
Park. There is an episode, which
aired back in November of 2005 that makes fun of the redheaded folk and claims
they have no souls. Within the first
month the video had 3.1 million views and over 600 comments. Today, 3 years later, the video has 32, 686,
323 views and over 650, 000 comments on YouTube. The reason that this video is so funny is due
to a couple things. Firstly, he persists
that he does indeed have a soul because he’s Christian is weird. Copper obviously did not understand that it
was intended to be a joke and so his obstinate denial is funny. It is unfortunate that he felt as if he was
actually being bullied. I personally
think it’s funny because it’s funny when people “lose it” on camera.
There have been many remixes of the video
made to poke fun at him. One video was
made by his “parents,” apologizing for their son’s rant, but in fact it is just
another spoof. There have been a variety
of songs made with his lines and spoofs created, but the most famous is the
response of South Park. They made a spoof that had the character Eric
Cartman, who is the most outspoken against gingers, dressed as a ginger making
the same speech as Michael Copper. Below
are the links to watch the original video, the one by his “parents” and the South Park edition.
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