Is this racist?

[Fez Hammersticks]

Type in '2204355' on google and then click on 'i'm feeling lucky'

 

[julius]

I don't know whats more offensive. The picture, or the fact they made a techno song out of the Alf theme song.

 

[44Thrilla]

haha wtf

 

[NJNetz]

 

[speeds]

He's happy. Let him be.

 

[Natebishop3]

If I'm black, I'm somewhat offended... if I'm gay, I'm extremely offended.

 

[julius]

If I'm black, I'm somewhat offended... if I'm gay, I'm extremely offended.

So, you're saying you're offended...


Bazinga!

 

[bodyman5001]

It has to be racist, I just don't know how they tricked a black guy into holding chicken without devouring it immediately.

 

[THE HCP]

It has to be racist, I just don't know how they tricked a black guy into holding chicken without devouring it immediately.

I just pooped my pants laughing so hard at this!!!

 

[bodyman5001]

You're welcome.

 

[Natebishop3]

I just pooped my pants laughing so hard at this!!!

I feel bad for Mrs. HCP.... she probably has to clean that up.

 

[julius]

I feel bad for Mrs. HCP.... she probably has to clean that up.

she's used to cleaning up bodily fluids all the time. but usually it's her own vomit from when they fool around and she see's HCP naked.

 

[Minstrel]

On-screen, a young man is dancing to a crude synthesized track that could double as the score for a Super Mario Bros. porno. A rainbow pattern scrolls from left to right behind him. The dancer is holding chicken legs in both hands and ripping into them as he dances, chewing in time to the music and occasionally lunging into the camera and smiling.

Sometime Monday word started to circulate that if you typed 2204355 into Google and hit "I Feel Lucky," this strange little loop would show up. By midday, the same Google search led to this entry on Time magazine's "Newsfeed" blog, where writer Megan Gibson declares herself "completely mystified by the meaning behind the video and, sadly, it's not the first time the Internet has left us baffled (looking at you, Badger Badger viral video)."

Tempting as it is to enjoy the dancing chicken man as the latest in an endless supply of WTF? diversions (the Internet's second most beloved product after porn) and ask whether it's racist or just silly and surreal, let's try to get to the bottom of it. We can start by asking why a young, presentable, presumably self-respecting black man would un-ironically dance and smile on camera while eating chicken legs.

The answer is, "Because he's an actor appearing in a commercial."

Type "Racist KFC Commercial" into the search box on YouTube, and eventually you'll run into this fragment of a KFC ad. Although this particular clip has been stripped of logos, it's clearly part of a Web-based 2009 KFC ad campaign for the chain's then-new lineup of grilled menu items. And that guy who appears at the :15 mark is the same guy in the 2204355 clip.

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/06/29/mysteries_of_2204355_kfc

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

'Tell!!!

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8619/2204355.swf

 

[Anima]

Re: 'Tell!!!

[video=youtube;RYCT77YNHsk]

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Re: 'Tell!!!

Need to merge with this thread.