recontextualize anything that s popular. it s a pay people can 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. this video is 100% real. i haven t added any effects to it. it s completely 100% true. two years after claude s meteoric rise to fame, alex s younger sister yuki takes a trip to japan. one of her first stops is the zoo. i thought if i saw it for myself, i could brag about it to my friends and stuff. be like, oh, yeah, i ve seen that in real life. at first things look bleak.
during a family trip in 2009. the zoo is generally really quiet. we were looking around. i walk off by myself. soon alex comes face-to-face with claude the bear. so i take out my camera. alex can t believe his eyes when claude picks up the stick. i was pretty amazed when i 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.
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. this video is 100% real. i haven t added any effects to it. it s completely 100% true. two years after claude s meteoric rise to fame, alex s younger sister yuki takes a trip to japan. one of her first stops is the zoo. i thought if i saw it for myself, i could brag about it to my friends and stuff. be like, oh, yeah, i saw that in real life. at first things look bleak. get your video ready. i m videoing. then to yuki s excitement,
two years after claude s meteoric rise to fame, alex s younger sister yuki takes a trip to japan. one of her first stops is the zoo. i thought if i saw it for myself, i could brag about it to my friends and stuff. be like, oh, yeah, i saw that in real life. at first things look bleak. get your video ready. i m videoing. then to yuki s excitement, claude starts up his old tricks. he s doing it! he looked a little like lazy kind of. he wasn t exactly doing the same tricks as fast. he was still doing the same old stuff, but maybe a little slower. older and wiser, claude continues to excite crowds at the zoo and around the world on youtube. many wonder what his next trick will be. he can probably run the banks better than the guys who are doing that.
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.