Saturday, December 24, 2016

Let's buy some shoes: Early 2000's YouTube

Recently I had time to review some old YouTube videos that I haven't seen in quite some time. One being the original Shoes video by Liamkylesulliven.
Character Kelly from the Shoes video
Photos from Google Images
Shoes came out in the year 2007 which featured Liam's character named Kelly who after getting mad with her family for giving her a lame birthday present (and giving her brother a computer and a car) goes out to the mall (in LA) and buys herself a ton of shoes. (while singing about shoes)

Basically shoes was one of those YouTube videos that everyone in school seemed to have watched at least once and imitated at least a dozen times when going shopping.

The video itself is very random and very creative at the same time.  During the years of the early 2000's, Liam came out with other videos including No Booty Calls, Text Message Breakup and Let me Borrow that top. All of which are rather catchy and people to this day still watch.  Other videos he released were vlog type videos that featured the character Kelly's best friend Heather The Vampire.
Heather the Vampire (YouTube) Picture from Google Images

HEATHER THE VAMPIRE
(Right) Heather (played by Megahn Perry) is a 605 year old vampire who did a series of vlogs with her dad Lou Campbell (played by Michael Cornacchia) and occasionally the creepy "Uncle Ric" (Ric Barbera). Each vlog featured Heather the vampire and her dad answering real questions submitted by fans via Facebook.

The vlogs are very entertaining to watch and are very funny. One of the funniest videos includes Heather, Her Dad and Uncle Ric and they are going over about how a person knows if they are a vampire. In which, in the end has one of the funnier moments in which Uncle Ric gets kicked out.

OPINION
I'm not really sure why this series ended, with Heather's Vlogs and the Kelly videos but I hope that they return some day soon. Because they were fun to watch and fun to look forward to.