Evolution of Dance

I wasn't surprised to see that the most played YouTube video ever was the Evolution of Dance.



I was unsurprised for the following reasons:

1.) This piece is very entertaining and it held my interest because it conjured so many images of junior high dances.
2.) It was posted well over a year ago, when YouTube seemed to peak in popularity.
3.) The entertainer covers music by artists of all different generations, races which is obviously more appealing to a broader audience.

What I am surprised about is how this video seems to break all the rules of mixed media usage. We can gain little info. about "Comedian Justin Laipply" other than that he is a talented dancer and not camera-shy. The video is quite long, too --a full six minutes. Usually this kind of length is unacceptable when posting to a high traffic site, but obviously tens of millions of people have followed the link from their e-mail forwards to watch dance evolve.

Any other examples you can think of where media laws are broken, to the success of the producers (or break-out comedians)?