Why Zidane, Why

Jul 10, 2006

The real reason Zidane did it:

Zidane

And as usual some rich context from Kottke.com, apparently some mainstream media hired some lip readers with varying results.

http://www.portigal.com/blog/meme-diffusion/ Portigal Consulting

[...] Update: moments after posting this I see (via Experience Curve, also withoutu explanation) another funny site on the same incident – here – and learned that the player’s name is (presumably) Zidane. No Ronaldino, guess I was wrong. And I noticed that both these paraodies came from the same domain. Whoah! It’s called YTMND – You’re The Man Now Dog, and they’ve got a great story. YTMND is a site created for the purpose of furthering the creativity of its users. It stems from an idea that, using sound, and image, and some text, the users can convey a point, funny, political, or otherwise, to the general media. [...]

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