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YouTuber LisaNova fighting corporate tide

11:34 AM PT, May 16 2008

Lisanovacollabyourfaceoff LisaNova has picked up the gauntlet, declaring war against the smut peddlers and corporate hegemons that have taken over YouTube (see today's Playboy post and last week's post about iPower). 

In her current chart topper," LisaNova will Collab Your Face Off!" (CLBW*), Lisa asks viewers in her best infomercial imitation, "Are you sick of all the sexy thumbnails and mainstream media videos that now dominate all the lists on this web site, keeping your videos from getting the exposure they deserve?"

No doubt the answer for many YouTubers is a resounding "yes!" Then all you have to do, instructs Lisa, is insert her brand-new LisaNova collab clips into your videos. 

NurselisanovaLisa has produced a series of 10-second videos designed to be popped into other videos like hats onto a paper doll. Her characters, she says, can fit into any story. There's Emo LisaNova, Salacious Librarian LisaNova, Naughty Nurse LisaNova, Kim Kardashian LisaNova, and others in the pipeline. Enterprising YouTubers are simply to pop the appropriate Lisa into their clips, and bam! YouTube will be won back for the masses (or at least, Lisa's name, face and chest area will get a lot of exposure).  

At this point, this idea exists at the gimmick level -- you can't very well use Lisa's clips to make anything but a jokey video blog of your own ("What The Buck" has already done so (CLBW*)). Still, this is a catchy idea. What could be more viral than getting tons of people to replicate your video by inserting it into the middle of their video?  If the crowd can figure out how to run with this, maybe there will be a user-generated resurgence.

*Can't link, bad words

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Ha. Lisa's a sellout too...her BF Danny Diamond is really a corporation man. See zappinproductions.com, which is probably the only reason there IS a LisaNova.

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