Why I Love The Daily What Channel…
When I was much, much younger I emailed a clip to an aunt. There was nothing special about the clip - if memory serves 2 cats doing cat things … She responded almost immediately ‘seen it. thanks!’ The burning shame I felt that day… There’s nothing worse than sharing a stale clip. I swore, from that day on, if something was going viral I would be on board before the wave broke.
This is why The Daily What Channel is one of the first channels on my tuner. It’s the channel that finds and features video before it breaks 50,000 views. If you saw it first, it’s likely that you saw it here.
Their editors also do a fantastic job of contextualizing their videos as in the case of this one entitled “2012 Dergin Tokmak”Dancing on Crutches”STIX Tanzen auf Kruecken” The title doesn’t give you much to work with…
The video was found by them on reddit with a better but equally WTF title “Aw poor guy, look at his disabili-WHAAAAAT!” … The Daily What dug a bit deeper and came up with their post “Inspirational Motivational of the Day:: Cirque du Soleil performer Dergin Tokmak, who became paralyzed from the waist down after contracting polio as a child, performs one of his incredible, inspirational solo crutch-dance routines.”
By adding that context they made an amazing clip extraordinary and makes their channel on Frequency a must-have.
Zaidan
- Chief Curator
When was a kid my favorite dollar purchase at the Depaneur was the ‘surprise bag.’ For those that grew up outside Quebec a Depaneur is a convenience store and a surprise bag was (I haven’t seen them in years)… Well, it was never the same thing twice.
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