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Best Videos on the Internet Vol 1: Don’t Stay in School

Oh hey, welcome back. As you might remember, my escapades on this blog last semester consisted entirely of me talking about my favorite up and coming athletes and their mixtapes. Well, I’m not doing that anymore. Over the course of last semester, I found myself thinking about why I liked doing the blogs. Ultimately, I found that although I liked the basketball mixtapes, almost nobody else in the class was as passionate about them as I was. So, I figured I’ll change it up so that I can use my fast knowledge and internet expertice, while still trying to be interesting and fun for all to read. SO, for this semester, you can expect to read about anything from the grotesque to the emotional to the obscene, but all of them will have 1 thing in common: For one reason or another, they’re some of the best videos on the internet.

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Alright, now that that’s out of the way, welcome to Vol 1: ‘Don’t Stay in School’ edition. ‘Don’t Stay In School’ is an absolutely amazing music video about the fundamental problems of our education system. Though it might initially sound like the ramblings of one frustrated soul given the misleading the title, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. The author, Dave Brown aka Boyinaband, actually is referring to the information we needless learn and recite in schools when he says ‘Don’t Stay in School’ and is simply trying to express his frustration with what he had and hadn’t learned in schools.

You see, his qualm is not with the usefulness of schools in society, but rather their ineffectiveness in teaching most people the critical tactics they need to succeed in life. Without getting too deep into the specifics(We’d be here all day) Brown finally makes his point clear at the end of the video: All subjects should be introduced in schools, but the only subjects that should be mandatory are subjects that apply practically to people’s lives. He also implies in the song that the freed up time should be used to teach kids things that will be useful, like how to pay taxes, disperse earnings, identify preventable diseases, and even parent. All the other subjects, in his view, should be optional, in that students should choose if they wish to learn more beyond what is simply practical for every day use.

Lastly, I absolutely love this video. At first, you can’t help but be skeptical, but the viewpoint Boyinaband comes from is so fresh and well presented and honestly surprisingly valid, so its no surprise the video has almost 1 million likes and 22 million views. Trust me, if you listen to this, you’ll wonder how much easier your life could’ve been in Brown’s system vs the current one.

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I did this so I could watch internet videos for class

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Hey Guys, welcome to my passion blog! Ultimately, it was the word passion that really stood out to me when deliberating what potentially I might want to talk about for a 10 week period in a way that could still be interesting and entertaining to the people reading it. I mean, I’m a pretty simple guy, I like playing and watching sports, hanging out with friends, and having fun, so most of my time brainstorming was spent trying to figure out how I could work in the few things I am passionate about with a 10 week blog that would feel new and refreshing for even the most dedicated sports fans in the room. Fortunately for me, I definitely think I found a way to do just that.

Every year, there are a number of athletes that go ‘viral’ in that the film of them dismantling and often humiliating their competition reach the waves of the internet and garner millions of views before they can even make a commitment to college basketball. They become a sort of underground celebrity, despite the fact that they’re still in high school, receive millions of followers on social media despite the fact that many of them aren’t older than 16 yet, and the resulting expectations that follow can be enough to crush the young stud before he even reaches the level so many hope he does.

So, for the purposes of this blog, each and every week I will choose one of my favorite high school mixtapes from throughout the years, and talk about what made these athletes so captivating for their audiences, why so many people supported them, where they came from, and whether or not they were able to succeed in the years following their internet stardom in pursuing their professional careers. In fact, many of the stars of the most popular mixtapes failed in that regard, so it will be a talking point to figure out why that might be. Of course, this will mostly be limited to basketball players, since oftentimes their videos are the most cinematic; however, there are a few exceptions in baseball and football out there as well. In the words of Forrest Gump ‘That’s all I have to say about that.’ See you soon!