More Info than Brains

…other than the obvious.

My assistant just sent me this YouTube.

Other than this being proof that I don’t really need a full-time assistant, it also may offer some insight into the future of web-video.

While watching the video, I noticed that the “related videos” were full of other various primates, canine, perissodactyla and others “ticklin’ the (Don) rickles.” Testing a quick theory, I typed “animal masturbating” into the search field and, sure enough, 154 results – and that’s without a few modified searches to include, what I’m sure are many, descriptive variations.

If someone were to collect all the masturbating animals from YouTube, there would be enough to create a specialized website just for animals… masturbating. This would be a perfect example of the niche-specialization that is bound to happen in the future of Webertainment.

So while this would help organize the info, in a way, it would also create even more things to check every day … I wonder who/what is being featured on furryfriends.com today (note: I have not checked that URL, proceed at your own risk).

This is a perfect example of an extremely narrow genre that is currently, all by itself, well above what one brain can handle in a day. If I were to watch all of the animal masturbation that’s available to me it would be dinner time and I would have completely missed my daily review of college-kids-buttering-things-that-shouldn’t-be-buttered.

Also of note: Don’t search for “masturbating bear,” you’re just going to get a mixture of Conan O’Brien sketches and something else completely.