Originality (The Harlem Shake)/Transcript

The following is a transcript of "Originality (The Harlem Shake)", the 105th episode of comedy web series A Dose of Buckley.
==Transcript==
The Harlem Shake. You have probably seen it by now, or you've heard about it and tried to avoid it for as long as possible. There's very little to be said about the video or the dance itself. This is the type of thing you think is funny or entertaining, or it's the type of thing you think is really stupid.
You've already made your decision, and it doesn't matter what I have to say. And it's such an unimportant flavor-of-the-week type thing that's not even worth my time to discuss, since no one will care by Spring.
So that's not what this Dose is about. What is worth discussing, though, is how no one has an original fucking thought left in their shitty little heads anymore. After the first Harlem Shake video came out, and everyone saw how many views it got, every fucking group just had to get in on it.
High schools, colleges and universities...I've seen local radio stations do it. I'm sure there's videos of fucking geriatrics doing it at the old folks home, though it might just be security camera footage of them choking on their false teeth and someone added the music.
And this is one of the problems I have with the internet.
So many people just take the easy way out. Why create something new and try to become successful for yourself when you could just take someone else's idea and piggyback off their success?
This is the same thing that happened with the "Shit-blank-Says" videos, you know, "Shit Girls Say", "Shit Guys Say". I'm assuming it started with the success of the #shitmydadsays Twitter account or blog, or whatever the fuck, became a best-selling book and a short-lived TV show with Captain "fucking" Kirk, but I have no idea, and I just don't care enough to do any further research into it. It's not important.
What is important is that everyone just took an idea that was proven successful and did that, littering Youtube with thousands of unwatchable videos from wannabees who aren't skilled writers or entertainers, because if they were, they'd come up with their own original ideas.
Now for those of you who would defend the Harlem Shake videos by saying: "It's just fun, it's a fun thing to do, stop sucking the fun out of everything, fun nazi!". Fine, you think it's fun. Good for you.
Then just do it with your friends without filming it. Or if you must visually document every useless second of your meaningless lives, and it's really just something to show your friends, use the privacy settings when you upload this shit. 
I'm sure there's a guy out there whose idea of a fun time is to dress up as princess Leia, and have fat man he calls Jabba, chain him up and lick him. He's not filming it and uploading it to Youtube for everyone to watch. You don't need to film every fun activity you do in your life and upload it to Youtube.
If you're making a Harlem Shake video or ripping off any other viral video idea to make your own version of it, and you upload it for the public to see, you not just doing it for fun. You're clearly doing it because you saw how succesful the first one is, and you want to try and get some of those views.
You want some of the attention. But it's an undeserved attention. Every single one of those views should have an asterisk beside it. You've been as creative as someone doing a paint by numbers that then claims they created it.
And what's worse is, by supporting this, by going and watching more and more of these videos, you're essentially saying to Entertainment executives: "Hey! We love watching the same thing over and over created by different people!".
And they respond with more remakes and reboots and shit we've already seen.
So, fucking stop. Stop ripping off other people's ideas. Be creative and come up with your own thing.
And if you can't be creative, stay the fuck away from Youtube.
When Andy Warhol said that, in the future, everyone would be world famous for fifteen minutes, he didn't mean it was compulsory. You don't have to be.
You're welcome to live your uncreative life doing other things you might actually be good at, even if no one will ever know you're good at those things.
You're allowed to be nobody. Better to be a nobody than a somebody known for being an attention whore and an uncreative fucking hack.