Young YouTube stars net over 9m hits — but no ice-cream
The video shows two young boys eating beans on toast with their babysitter and then falling over as they hear the jingles of an ice-cream van approach.
Incidentally, locals say the ice-cream seller happens to live across the street from the family and was not selling ice-cream at all at the time, but was merely alerting his wife that he was on his way home in time for tea.
The video was posted online by Nenagh-based photographer Selina O’Meara, who is godmother of Liam, 18 months, and who had been babysitting him and his older brother Luke, 4, for mum Karen Naughton when she shot the clip.
“It’s mad how much it has taken off. It has been a really interesting week just seeing it grow and grow,” said Karen, from Castletroy, Co Limerick.
“Selina initially posted it on my Facebook page just for me and my husband James to see it and I was amazed that it had 61 views at that stage.
“It wasn’t a set-up,” she reassured. “Selina always has her camera on, and she thought there was going to be an incident with the bowl of beans. It was just a coincidence that the ice-cream van drove into the neighbourhood at the same time.”
The video has even attracted a parody remake, with two grown-up German males re-enacting the moments before the fall. It has received over 21,000 views to date.
Many on YouTube remarked how weird it is to see two children eating beans on toast, but Selina reassured them that this is part of a staple Irish diet, and that no children were harmed in the making of this impromptu video.
“I don’t understand. I’m not a big tech person,” she said of her first experience with YouTube. “I find it fascinating the way the internet works.”
While Luke is seen falling to the floor and crying, she explained that he was crying about dropping his toast, but quickly came to his feet when he was offered a coconut bar as a replacement.
Separately, a video starring a “dancing cleaner” at Limerick’s Milk Market also looks set to become an internet hit. The 77-second video shows the unidentified man gradually attracting a growing audience with his energetic dance moves during an alcohol-free event on St Patrick’s day. It has received over 2,300 views in recent days.
A video of Tommy Bolger’s campaign to become the students’ union president in UL has now attracted over 255,000 views for its parody of the Wolf of Wall Street.
Tommy, 22, is planning to cycle 1,800km to Rome this summer to raise €10,000 for the Children’s Leukaemia Association. “The money I raise might bring a smile to even one child’s or family members’s face in a time where they may not feel they have much reason to smile. That is the reason behind all fundraising I suppose; to make a difference in someone’s life.”
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