1,001 "OHMYGODS"

[plumtreeblossom]

This vid is about one-fifth sweet and four-fifths disturbing. It's 50 children shrieking in ecstatic rapture upon opening Nintendo Wiis on Christmas. It's a freaky mix of glee, fearsome social pressure relieved, marketing gone mad, and sugar buzzes. I don't remember a must-have-it-to-be-cool toy from my childhood, except maybe the Lite Brite, but when I opened mine on Christmas I didn't go apeshit because I'd gone a'hunting through the house's nooks and crannies and found it several weeks before.

Anyway, ohmygod, um, enjoy....

50 kids happy to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas - watch more gamer videos

Comments

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Now, everybody's Wii!!!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

And by next Christmas they won't have played with their Wii for 6 months.

[ron_newman]

Did they cry wii wii wii all the way home?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I think they did, Ron. I think they did. :-)

[sernin.livejournal.com]

the last one.. is it a playstation?

[evilshell.livejournal.com]

I couldn't watch it. A bunch of spoiled kids screaming in fake glee, ovedone because they are expected to be. Makes me cringe like hell.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

I'm with you; it reminded me of watching people having seizures. I wanted to administer Thorazine.

The Most Disturbing of All, in Entirety

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

I can't help but feel a staged aspect to this. But yeah, while I reminisce over how awesome it was to get what I wanted (1/5th sweetness), this is just plain disturbing (4/5th):

Turn your speakers DOWN NOW.

Re: The Most Disturbing of All, in Entirety

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

*squick*

The thing that gets me is, within 8 weeks time or so, this conversation will happen:

BRAT: (on couch) I'm boooooored.
MOM: Play with your Wii.
BRAT: Don't wanna.
MOM: Why not?
BRAT: It's stupid. Why can't we have a ________ ?(insert newer and even more expensive game system)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

That first girl...ai ya. O_o

I couldn't watch more than a minute or so. IT'S FREAKING ME OUT, MAAAAAAN.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

She freaked me out because physically I looked very much like her at that age. I hope I never, ever behaved that way.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Weren't the parents of these children once the kids who just HAD TO HAVE the Cabbage Patch Dolls, and whose parents, in turn, were ready to KILL in order to get one for them - at any price at all?
"Unto the third generation"
Seriously, these kids need some major medication!
Be afraid, America, be very afraid. The enemy is within..........
(mysterious music plays in the background)...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Baby boomers, generation X, generation Y, generation Hopeless. :-/

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!