spawns numerous parodies. good morning, ninja bear. time to complete your ninja training. almost like the entire internet was riffing on this bear for a bit. i ve seen ones with mortal kombat sounds. the light saber version where the bear s carrying a light saber instead of a stick. that one s funny. people want to recontextualize anything that s popular. it s a way to participate in the viral revolution. but with growing popularity comes growing skepticism. many viewers think alex s video is a fake. the part where he flips the stick in the air and catches it, that s where most people will call it fake. it s just too incredible to like believe. to quash rumors about the video s illegitimacy, alex posts an extended uncut version of kung fu bear online.
saw claude playing with the stick doing all these amazing tricks. at the time i was filming it, i was thinking this could get millions of view on youtube. alex decides to make his vision a reality. he comes home from his trip and edits together a montage of claude s best moves. the bear s tricks are so unbelievable that even alex s sister yuki thinks it s a fake. there s a ton of crazy stuff in japan, so i thought maybe it was a show or something. then he s like, no, it s real. alex uploads the video in september 2009. i start getting thousands of views. started getting really excited. then week after week it kept blowing up. before long, the video entitled kung fu bear receives more than 3 1/2 million hits on youtube. the video s so popular, it spawns numerous parodies. good morning, ninja bear. time to complete your ninja
unbelievable that even alex s sister yuki thinks it s a fake. there s a ton of crazy stuff in japan, so i thought maybe it was a show or something. then he s like, no, it s real. alex uploads the video in september 2009. i start getting thousands of views. started getting really excited. then week after week it kept blowing up. before long, the video entitled kung fu bear receives more than 3.5 million hits on youtube. the video s so popular, it spawns numerous parodies. good morning, ninja bear. time to complete your ninja training. almost like the entire internet was riffing on this video for a little bit. i ve seen ones with mortal kombat sounds. the light saber version where the bear s carrying a light saber instead of a stick. that one s funny. people want to
alex uploads the video in september 2009. i start getting thousands of views. started getting really excited. then week after week it kept blowing up. before long, the video entitled kung fu bear receives more than 3 1/2 million hits on youtube. the video s so popular, it spawns numerous parodies. good morning, ninja bear. time to complete your ninja training. almost like the entire internet was riffing on this bear for a bit. i ve seen ones with mortal kombat sounds. the light saber version where the bear s carrying a light saber instead of a stick. that one s funny. people want to recontextualize anything that s popular. it s a way to participate in the
at the time i was filming it, i was thinking this could get millions of view on youtube. alex decides to make his vision a reality. he comes home from his trip and edits together a montage of claude s best moves. the bear s tricks are so unbelievable that even alex s sister yuki thinks it s a fake. there s a ton of crazy stuff in japan, so i thought maybe it was a show or something. then he s like, no, it s real. alex uploads the video in september 2009. i start getting thousands of views. started getting really excited. then week after week it kept blowing up. before long, the video entitled kung fu bear receives more than 3 1/2 million hits on youtube. the video s so popular, it spawns numerous parodies. good morning, ninja bear. time to complete your ninja training. almost like the entire internet was riffing on this bear for a bit.