Digital News: The Jokes

Our final production has a lot of jokes in it, some of which are not immediately obvious, below are all of the jokes:

STUDENT YAK JOKES

Viral Video sound bites- During the introduction, we've added sound bites from some popular viral videos, which are 'Charlie Bit My Finger', 'David Went To The Dentist', 'Pen, Pineapple, Apple, Pen', 'Keyboard Cat', 'Damn Daniel', and 'The Harlem Shake'. We reference all of these videos, because we are talking about the history of viral videos on YouTube, and these are some of the most popular/most famous ones.

Katie's Intro- Katie has a very dramatic introduction, which is a reference to the introductions they create for musicians on The X Factor. We felt this was the quickest, funniest, and best way to tell our audience a bit about Katie before her interview began.

Katie's Interview- During Katie's interview, a number of graphics appear on screen. These graphics reference things she is saying. We chose to do this, to help keep the audience interested, as the interview slows down the pace of our episode.

Shia LaBeouf "DO IT"- During step 3 of the news package, we used a clip of Shia LaBeouf saying "Do It!". We chose to include this there because it correlates with what I'm saying on screen, and it references a stack of viral videos from a few years back when people used this clip alot.

"About A Week Ago"- During the reveal of our viral video view count, we cut to a clip from a song where the lyric is "about a week ago". We do this as I'm talking about how long ago we uploaded our viral video, and we thought it'd be funny if we referenced that song, instead of just having me say it.

Bottle Flip Joke: After the live segment, George throws a bottle of water over to me in the studio. I then drink from it, and throw it off screen. It then cuts to the bottle landing on a table upright. This is a reference to a number of viral videos, which show people 'faking' the bottle flip challenge by cutting two shots together so it looks like they flip the bottle.

FRED joke- During the final moments of the show, I speak about the live bottle flip challenge. As I do this, it cuts to a replay from the live, and some of the audience members have had their faces replaced with that of the YouTuber FRED. I also say "she can't even flip a bottle for Fred's sake". We added this reference to FRED as another nod to the history of YouTube, as FRED was very popular back in the day.

MEME OF THE WEEK- Memes are a very popular internet phenomenon, and something we would like to include on the show every week. For this weeks meme of the week, we scrolled through the most recents memes on Reddit, which is the front page of the internet. We eventually settled on on about North Korea and we thought it was pretty funny.

Bye Felicia & Don't Make Me Snap- To close the show, we reference two more viral phenomenon. Firstly, 'Bye Felicia' is a reference to a popular internet meme with Ice Cube taken from one of his movies. Secondly, 'Don't Make Me Snap' is a music video that went viral a few years back. We thought this was a funny way to close the episode.

And that's it, all the jokes in Student Yak that relate to the world of the internet.