![]() ![]() ![]() After it was posted on The Shade Room, I was so taken by the woman that I needed to hear her story.įirst, I contacted the Generic Theater in Norfolk, Virginia, whose YouTube page first posted the video to promote a run of an adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery. It’s a testament to the director, who specifically shot it to ape cell-phone videos, and the actress, who plays the part of lunatic customer so well that viewers hope and believe it’s not a performance. “ Crazy Chick Flips Out in Barnes & Noble” was shot to go viral, but even its creators cannot have expected its success: To date it has accumulated tens of millions of views across a variety of sites, each restarting the debate: The story of how a promo video filmed in 2011 by a local theater troupe for its new show ended up on The Shade Room in 2016 is the story of so many viral videos: Created with intention, it eventually finds an audience through circuitous means, slowly and increasingly obscuring the original. ![]()
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