Some WATS numbers
Now there are videos on the interwebZ with like 30-40 million views so my little numbers are like meh compared to those...
BUT given the fact that I am making bizarre material for a super small niche I think the numbers are kinda inspiring... and also WATS doesn't have any b00bs, cats...nothing to do with celebrities, politics, pop culture or anyone hitting they balls...
So as of right now... WATS in languages besides English total: 446,525 views The English version has 687,974 views... so thats 1,134,499 total for a film that old dead bastards and generic sheeple walked out of at Sundance... After looking at the youtube insight for all the versions... Over %50 of the people watching WATS on Youtube are under 18 years of age.
So 20 years ago NO ONE would have seen WATS after what happened at Sundance... because there was no interwebs... no way to reach the people who might be interested in it... So I exist only because of this cyber place... If it was up to the rotten bastards who run all the old media companies people like me wouldn't exist either... they don't want anyone else to be producers... they want us all to be mindless consumers.... Why is my Download speed like 20x faster than my Upload speed here in California? Oh yeh yeh technical limitations... right.
Also about views.... I don't like the trend wherein interweb people somehow equate the quality of something with how many times it has been seen... example "This only has 50 views, this is shit"..... but whatever the world is full of mindless sheeple and they certainly do congregate in droves on youtube ^ ^ Did I mention I'm a pretentious elitist jerk as well as being bold and stubborn? ^ ^
This animation is subtle and profound... with more truth, emotion and power in it than any of the modern crap that panders to mediocre minds and zero attention spans...
It says with no words more than any modern chattering animation ever will... Visual storytelling at its best... It was made with pieces of paper and a camera... JUST FUCKING PAPER!!!! And yet no fancy 3d animation can touch it... That is why I love the animation of the Brothers Quay... there is magick in theY works... its almost as if words would pollute and taint them...Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.