submitted by Mitchell on 10.1.2006
Eric Bauman made big bucks posting other people’s homemade grossout videos to his Web site. Now the geeks whose clips he swiped on the way up are trying to knock him down.
CLICK. AN OBESE NERD burps a tune into a soda bottle. Click. A gawky teen puts fireworks into his mouth and lights them. Click. A deer suckles a horse. Like millions of young drones, Kelli Rinaudo is spending the afternoon surfing dumb videos on her PC at work. With her next click, Rinaudo uncovers a shot of a dude passed out on a couch, his entire face covered in black Magic Marker by some prankster. “Hey, Eric,” Rinaudo hollers, “check out this marker job!”
Over from another cube ambles Eric Bauman. A diminutive, unshaven 26-year-old in a T-shirt and khakis, Bauman has short, dark hair, bushy eyebrows, and a passing resemblance to a Baldwin brother. He expertly assesses the photo. It’s original, way more interesting than the usual cock-and-balls and “bitch” scrawls that typically end up decorating the faces of people who pass out on a fraternity couch. It’s clear, crisp, well lit. Heck, it’s just flat-out hilarious; the dude looks like he crawled out of Bigfoot’s ass, Bauman thinks. He pivots and gives Rinaudo the thumbs-up sign. The shot will be posted on eBaum’s World, the insanely popular – and profitable – Web site for goofy home-brewed media that has made Bauman the king of dot-comedy.
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