Charlie Bit My Finger

Charlie Bit My Finger - Again! is a 56 second long web video, which shows how the annual Charlie his three year old brother Harry bites his finger. Here, the older brother says repeatedly: " Charlie bit me" ( Charlie bit me ). The father of the English pair of brothers, Howard Davies - Carr uploaded the video in May 2007, high on the Internet video platform YouTube. There was for a time the most watched video and still ranks in 3rd place until January 2014, the video was played nearly 650 million times. The parodies and clones were often considered. So reached a parody of two teenagers, as lay the video and the audio track of the original used, even more than 15 million clicks.

The video is an example of how Web-videos can find great deal of media attention and viral spread unintentionally. In this case, the video is profane. Nevertheless, it brought the English family of media attention. In addition to various English-language media such as The Wall Street Journal, the Daily Mail, Time Magazine and the Daily Telegraph also German media such as Der Spiegel and Stern and RTL reported on the video. For the family Davies -Carr, the video did not only media coverage, which they gave interviews, but also a financial income over a share of the advertising revenue from YouTube. So they financed a house.