{"id":229,"date":"2006-12-22T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/22\/madv-youtube-cultural-icon\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T02:04:44","slug":"madv-youtube-cultural-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/22\/madv-youtube-cultural-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"MadV (YouTube cultural icon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then I stumble across something on YouTube that seems to have a huge group of followers… that nobody else knows about. I previously posted about Ramady’s Michael Jackson dance lessons<\/a>, Pui City Basement’s beatboxing tutorials<\/a>, YouTube community in-jokes<\/a>, and Terri Naomi<\/a> and the number of covers of her song “Say It’s Possible<\/a>“. I think all these groups really reflect the sort of interactions that a personal Internet can create.<\/p>\n

One community that really struck me was the group that formed around MadV<\/a>, an illusionist and entertainer who seemed to capture the imaginations of a lot of people looking for something amazing. He wears the same stylised Guy Fawkes<\/a> mask as the character V as portrayed in the V for Vendetta movie<\/a> (based on the comic<\/a> by Alan Moore<\/a>).<\/p>\n

MadV left YouTube<\/a> over six months ago (to pursue a career in television) and a lot of fans mourned his departure. Recently, he returned to start a “One World” video contest<\/a> in which people wrote messages on their hands and submitted videos of themselves showing their hands to the camera (“speak to the hand!”)… not sure it did much for me… a little too melodramatic. Anyhow, the response was impressive. Here’s a video compilation of his videos that he uploaded as a goodbye message to his fans:<\/p>\n

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A number of people have tried to pick up the MadV mantle. A lot of people replicate his floating card tricks, but few try new things with the same style. The most prominent is probably MadVapprentice<\/a> (he wears the same mask, but a black hoodie instead of a grey one). He seems to have a similar flair, but I haven’t found his tricks as appealing. This card trick<\/a> (labelled “one of the best card tricks today”) is a little too obvious to me. This ring trick<\/a> is neat though. I look forward to more from him in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then I stumble across something on YouTube that seems to have a huge group of followers… that nobody else knows about. I previously posted about Ramady’s Michael Jackson dance lessons, Pui City Basement’s beatboxing tutorials, YouTube community in-jokes, and Terri Naomi and the number of covers of her song “Say It’s Possible“. … Continue reading “MadV (YouTube cultural icon)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-3H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}