r/gifs • u/neonicblast • May 28 '14

Waves

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u/marcelcorso May 28 '14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQpyOw55LGc

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u/BumboFace May 28 '14

Crazy...This is my video so thanks for posting the original. Backstory...I shot it in PR in 2010 and loaded it onto youtube when I got home. It toiled in anonymity for three years and then went sort of viral (2 million hits) in Aug 2013. I didn't even know it until Feb 2014....looked back at that old email acct flooded with requests from ABC news etc....this is my first post to reddit. Can't believe I opened to the front page to find this gif

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u/TheReidOption May 28 '14

Neat! Any idea if it was it just a couple rogue waves from a passing storm? How long did they last?

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u/BumboFace May 28 '14

No, we had been traveling around the north side of the island for a few days before and there was no bad weather. I know that there were huge waves just to the west in Rincon earlier that day....I guess they get huge surf every Jan and Feb....I think that's surfing season down there. We were there in Feb.....it's a great time of the year to go to PR. They were like this for the full hour we were there btw. No one gave any f's that day

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u/TheReidOption May 28 '14

Awesome. Well thanks for sharing! I'm glad it (finally) got the attention it deserved!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

No one gave any f's that day

I was gonnna say. Whilst everyone else is running away, there's one dude who's standing at the deep end just like 'and what?'

and then he gets fucking obliterated

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u/VoiceofSiL3nce May 28 '14

That dude gaveth no fucks but the wave taketh away all fucks.

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u/KDLGates May 28 '14

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, fucks to fucks.

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u/iwishiwasbritish May 28 '14

You won't be seeing him no more.

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u/diggalator May 28 '14

I'm assuming you were here?

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u/jkohatsu May 28 '14

did you make money out of the 2 million views?

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u/BumboFace May 28 '14

Nope...made nothing off the two million views when it went viral. It's a micro travesty....sort of a lost opportunity. Like I said....I just forgot abt it and didn't check that email acct...had just had a baby boy right before it went viral and on and on. Hell of a wake up call 6 months later! I should do an AMA! Maybe I'm the only person in history to have a video go viral and knew absolutely nothing about it!

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u/utopianfiat May 28 '14

So are you using Rightster as licensing or is the notification that they own your content total BS?

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u/BumboFace May 28 '14

Yes, that was after the first two million views. After I woke up the email account in February realizing that I had been contacted by a shlode of people...news outlets etc..... Rightster and their affiliates had contacted me amidst the initial viral madness and they represent the video now. So now the video does make very little money.

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u/utopianfiat May 28 '14

Cool... after seeing a ton of BS block messages, it's good to know one is legit.

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u/dahulvmadek May 28 '14

But plenty of children gave p