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{{Infobox Internet celebrity
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Template:Infobox Internet celebrity Kevin Nalty (born May 12, 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a YouTube comedian and partner out of Doylestown, Pennsylvania better known under his YouTube username Nalts.[1] His YouTube Channel has been viewed more than 1.8 million times and he has 720 videos, as of October 16, 2008, that have been viewed more than 20 million times.[2] He is ranked as one of YouTube's Most Subscribed users.[2]

Nalty first gained notoriety for a video featured on YouTube's front page the first week of January 2007 - "Viral Video Genius - Loses His Cool When Confronted" - where he plays a skivvy-wearing, geeky intellectual passionate about viral video making. His second featured video, "Farting in Public," in which a young teenager named Spencer (Nalty's nephew's friend) uses a fart machine in public places, all the while seeming to be completely oblivious to the fact that he had done so, has been wildly popular with over 3.5 Million views. [3] Another of his videos, "Blackberry Crackberry," was selected as an official honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards.[4]

GPS Maniac, XLNTads, Holiday Inn Express, iLabor, doMyStuff, Crowne Plaza, and Mentos have paid Nalty for product placement in his videos.[5][6]

Nalty, as of September 14, 2008 has over 55,000 subscribers.

There have been over 150 YouTube usernames with the phrase "ofNalts". Example : Cultofnalts, or MugofNalts.[3]

Nalty is also well known for his theme song, scored by fellow YouTuber "MysteryGuitarMan" and has been sung by many different YouTube users, including MysteryGuitarMan himself.

The NAPPY Campaign

After being passed over by YouTube’s Partnership Placement program in May 2007, Nalty posted a video called NAPPY on June 1, 2007, in which he asked his fans to send messages to YouTube executives suggesting he be re-considered. As of July 18, 2008, the video has received 61,014 views, 6635 comments, 6 honors, and 413 video responses, making it the 8th most responded to video of all time. NAPPY stands for “Nalts Advocates for Partnership Placement on YouTube.”

On June 6, 2007, The NAPPY campaign was a success and Nalty became a YouTube Partner, allowing him to earn revenue from advertisements placed next to videos.

The Gootube Conspiracy

On December 4, 2006 Nalty started his "Gootube Conspiracy" video series where Google and Youtube (or Gootube) are trying to disinermediate major TV networks (Fox, ABC, NBC, etc.). Nalty originally made about 32 videos of it on his channel in December, 2006. There were usually 2 video posted a day and about 1 - 2 minutes long. There have been many responses to this series from users such as cfhworld, CIAOfilms, and CQVFilms. Then he and the user Loquesto made a channel separate for the Gootube Conspiracy in January, 2007. They posted fairly often from January, 2007 - August, 2007. In Summer, 2007, Nalts quit the conspiracy and it has remained fairly active ever since, although users like CQVFilms are trying to resurrect it.

Viral humor before there was viral video

Nalty's sense of humor, which might be regarded as irreverant and offbeat, got viral-type distribution long before there was viral video. As a student at Jesuit High School in New Orleans in the mid-1980s, he created and distributed, in relatively small numbers, a series of underground cartoon commentaries, many focused on the teachers and administrators at school. But where he made twenty copies for his close friends, those twenty copies got copied multiple times, often in multiple generations, on the school's photocopiers, and the underground cartoons spread rapidly, word-of-mouth, and person-to-person. Not surprisingly, the buzz that these cartoons created caused Nalty some difficulties with the school's administration, but the viral-type distribution proved very effective. He discusses this briefly in his video "YouTube is Highschool".

Cameo appearances

Nalty has appeared with other YouTube users on his own and other channels. He has appeared in videos with:

Nalty has also appeared on CNN, ABC Nightline, Good Morning America,[7][8] CBS News, FOX News and the BBC segment “Click”, where one of his videos was featured on the program.

References

  1. ^ Vascellaro, Jessica E. (October 12, 2006). "Finding Tom Cruise (Not Cruise Missiles)". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b You, Tube (July 2, 2007). "Most Viewed (All Time)". YouTube. Cite error: The named reference "YT" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Nalty, Kevin (March 24, 2007). "Farting in Public". Kevin Nalty. Cite error: The named reference "YouTube" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Webby Honorees". 11th Annual Webby Awards.
  5. ^ Sarno, David (May 13, 2007). "Fretting over product placement". The Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ Garfield, Bob (June 29, 2007). "As Seen on YouTube!". Bob Garfield's blog at Advertising Age.
  7. ^ Shields, Mike (October 30, 2006). "User-Gen Video Turning Pro". Adweek.
  8. ^ "Are You Addicted to Your Gadgets?". ABC News. August 23, 2006.

See also

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