Blog Post 1: The Virtual Identity of the Honey Badger

The man behind the "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger" video finally revealed himself to the public last Wednesday…well kind of. TMZ caught the mysterious Virtual Identity walking the street of Hollywood last week, where they managed to get a quick interview of the Internet superstar. He only revealed himself under the name of “Randall”, but at least we get to see what the man behind the computer looks like. In a strange way, he almost looks like a honey badger himself. By watching the astonishing 36 million viewed YouTube video again his voice is almost exactly what I would picture him to look like. The ascribed identity is spot on with what he really looks like.

Randall’s Internet life is just about all he has. With millions of views and a whole YouTube channel dedicated to dubbing over the Animal Planet, he has landed himself in Internet stardom. But in the outside world, he is just a man with a terrible haircut and an outrageous beard. No one wants to run into this guy on the streets and have a conversation with him; but if you were to run into him online and have an instant message conversation it would be a completely different story.

The anonymity associated with the Honey Badger video is half the reason to its success. The narrator’s voice is one of a kind and what he says is just plain funny. After seeing the true identity behind "czg123" (Randall’s YouTube account) it almost dims down some of the humor from the video. Wondering who was narrating this video was half of the fun for me. Now that we see that this man is actually kind of ‘out-there’ it brings a sense of weirdness to his videos. I think it is almost best that the virtual identity should be hidden from the public.

Lately Randall has bridged out in his Internet career and has picked up the art of blogging. The reason for this: "Because in today’s society, I think a lot of people want to be able to take what they want" Randall states "inside of them, a honey badger is just waiting to get out. They don’t care, they want to take what they want and now is the time to do it". The honey badger, Randall, is tired of just conquering the viral video world and he is ready to move on and conquer one of the fastest growing outlets for media…blogging.

- Clay




Sources:http://news.yahoo.com/man-behind-honey-badger-creature-internet-174853564.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/voice-behind-honey-badger-video-revealed-224949372.html