He was camped out in his mother's Palm Beach condo. She was in Europe for the season. He needed some spending money and one of his monetizing schemes was to create an 5 hour bossa nova soundtrack on YouTube as background music for studying or chilling out. Money would come in via advertisers and accumulated clicks from viewers. He needed an image so he set up his camcorder looking out on his Mom's patio overlooking the ocean and left to run errands. When he returned all seemed ok until he replayed the vid. Almost from the start in the lower left hand corner was a bug whose dark shape was contrasted against the bright Florida sky. "Fuck!" he spat out as he hit forward. The bug moved a bit but was still there 2-3 hours into the vid. "This just sucks" he thought. He was in a hurry and had multiple irons in the fire and didn't want to spend the time reshooting. An idea popped into his head: what if he just posted it as is. Give the potheads a bit of a mind-fuck. Is the bug on the vid or on their TV? He nearly cackled with delight of his twofer creation and loaded it on YouTube.
A couple of months later, he received a curious post on the comment section. There seemed to be a growing number of devotees to this vid who had watched all 6 hours! It turns out that about 3 and a half hours into the playing time, a cat appears. A tabby/calico mix, she first wanders across the top of the patio fence then some lounging and cleaning. The cat is on screen for a good 45 minutes!!! The cat became a celebrity of sorts and had succeeded in creating a fan club. He marvelled at his skyrocketing numbers and the money that was coming in. You can just never tell what will catch on with the public! Ahh, the sweet smell of success.
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