ANGELES CITY – Step aside, Charice.
A 39-second footage of the controversial video of movie actress Katrina Halili and Dr. Hayden Khohas been consistently rating high in the past days as among the “most viewed” in the popular website YouTube.com.
The rating of the Katrina-Hayden video has been changing almost by the minute, as the website updates in real time the number of actual viewers accessing each video sent to it by people worldwide.
Last Sunday morning, the Katrina-Hayden video was in the top 20, but by 10:50 a.m. yesterday, it slid down to 67th with 43,740 hits. Topping the ratings was a video titled “Interactive torture game”, a series of videos by a young man named Shane Dawson, with 444,154 hits.
Ten minutes later, however, the Halili-Hayden video shot up to 41th in the most-viewed rank, with 44,656 hits.
The actual 39-second footage shows only the portion of Halili in bikini dancing to some music, but accessing it unfolds 18 “related videos” that reveal footages of the continuation of the dancing segment, as well as footages from television news about the controversial video.
One supposedly related video titled in the beginning as “Hayden Kho and Vicky Belo” and in the end as “Salamat Doc” shows still photos of a man and a woman apparently in a motel room, but their faces were not clear. The video eventually, however, shifts for the most part to photos of fruits, vegetables, and plants uncannily shaped like male and female sex organs, until the ending showing the photo of the controversial duo together.
The Katrina-Hayden video, however, was not in the list of YouTube’s most popular, at least as of 11:30 a.m. yesterday.
Other Filipinos, however, have made to youtube.com in more favorable light. They include Charice Pempengco whose singing in YouTube aroused the interest of Oprah who helped make her an international star.
Among the most well known YouTube videos are those of Christine Gambito, a Filipino-American whose HappySlip series remain favorite worldwide. In March 2007, her video Mixed Nuts won second place in the YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy. In May of the same year, she became one of the first users accepted into YouTube’s revenue sharing program.
Singer Arnel Pineda also did the Philippines proud when his talent was brought worldwide through YouTube, as did Madonna Decena who was among the finalists in the Britain’s Got Talent last year.
Television host Edu Manzano’s papaya dance” also made it to YouTube and caught some following in the US.
Of course, there is also the still unforgotten “Thriller dance exercise” of the inmates of Cebu jail, a video made by Byron Garcia, brother of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.
A 39-second footage of the controversial video of movie actress Katrina Halili and Dr. Hayden Khohas been consistently rating high in the past days as among the “most viewed” in the popular website YouTube.com.
The rating of the Katrina-Hayden video has been changing almost by the minute, as the website updates in real time the number of actual viewers accessing each video sent to it by people worldwide.
Last Sunday morning, the Katrina-Hayden video was in the top 20, but by 10:50 a.m. yesterday, it slid down to 67th with 43,740 hits. Topping the ratings was a video titled “Interactive torture game”, a series of videos by a young man named Shane Dawson, with 444,154 hits.
Ten minutes later, however, the Halili-Hayden video shot up to 41th in the most-viewed rank, with 44,656 hits.
The actual 39-second footage shows only the portion of Halili in bikini dancing to some music, but accessing it unfolds 18 “related videos” that reveal footages of the continuation of the dancing segment, as well as footages from television news about the controversial video.
One supposedly related video titled in the beginning as “Hayden Kho and Vicky Belo” and in the end as “Salamat Doc” shows still photos of a man and a woman apparently in a motel room, but their faces were not clear. The video eventually, however, shifts for the most part to photos of fruits, vegetables, and plants uncannily shaped like male and female sex organs, until the ending showing the photo of the controversial duo together.
The Katrina-Hayden video, however, was not in the list of YouTube’s most popular, at least as of 11:30 a.m. yesterday.
Other Filipinos, however, have made to youtube.com in more favorable light. They include Charice Pempengco whose singing in YouTube aroused the interest of Oprah who helped make her an international star.
Among the most well known YouTube videos are those of Christine Gambito, a Filipino-American whose HappySlip series remain favorite worldwide. In March 2007, her video Mixed Nuts won second place in the YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy. In May of the same year, she became one of the first users accepted into YouTube’s revenue sharing program.
Singer Arnel Pineda also did the Philippines proud when his talent was brought worldwide through YouTube, as did Madonna Decena who was among the finalists in the Britain’s Got Talent last year.
Television host Edu Manzano’s papaya dance” also made it to YouTube and caught some following in the US.
Of course, there is also the still unforgotten “Thriller dance exercise” of the inmates of Cebu jail, a video made by Byron Garcia, brother of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.
