Everybody is copying my new haircut!
Okay, I’ll start off by saying that I think this video is pretty hilarious, and with over 21 million views I would say it’s safe to say that others share in this view as well. Personally, I’ve been a bartender for a few years now and I’ve definitely seen my fair share of guys like this. Even at the gym, if you go at certain times in the days you won’t be able to miss them. This video, in its rude language and exagerrated cruelty, is a social commentary on what is commonly refered to as a ‘guido’. A guido, as defined by Wikipedia, is the following:
A slang term for a younger lower class or working class Italian-American or Italian-Canadian male from the urban Northeastern United States or urban Central Canada, most often New York and the surrounding area due to the large number of Italian-Americans living in the area. The Guido stereotype is often portrayed as humorously thuggish and overtly macho attitude and an unyielding pride in his Italian ancestry.
So however crude the video may be in making fun of a certain ethnicity, people like it because they see it to a certain extent in their everyday life. This video is acting as a parody to the people that are in our social world. This video has had such a strong impact in fact that it has collected quite the listing of parodies of itself. In the ‘Related Videos’ section on this particular YouTube page, you can find a My New Hair Cut: Mexican Edition, Asian Edition, Senior Edition and Nerd Edition in this section alone. However, none of these videos carry the same amount of popularity as the original edition. This is due to the idea of authenticity brought forth by Dr. Stangelove in a number of his lectures, whereby one video may gain popularity and millions of viewers, but once that video is replicated or the user posts a newer version of this video, the authenticity is lost and with that go the viewers.
