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When you're watching videos on the internet today, you could, like most people, watch that clip of Miss USA falling at the Miss Universe pageant- a clip that accounts for 18 of the top 100 videos on YouTube at the moment, including the top two most watched videos - or you could do something more productive, like learn Swahili!

It's a popular phenomenon these days: plan an event with hundreds of your closest friends, and stage some sort of public stunt. Get it on video and call it art. Repeat.

The folks from Improv Everywhere have done a great job of this, and now they're inspiring copy-cats like the Adelaide "No Pants" stunt, or today's featured video, the Trafalgar Square freeze: 

Just a friendly reminder to Strutta players that while Strutta plays hosts to a number of hotly contested competitions, it is ok to make friends here, even if most competitors these days aren't doing it that way: 

We've said it before, but in light of recent developments it seems prudent to mention it again. At Strutta, we respect and protect your privacy.

By now, most, if not all of us have seen Weezer's Pork and Beans video. Surprisingly, (or not that surprising) it turns out the concept of using youtube 'celebrities' in a music video is not that original an idea.