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Farmville!!!!! A Song

2010-05-31 · song · Hank · 3:18 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion

Hank performs a comic song in the voice of a Facebook FarmVille addict who prefers the never-dying animals of his virtual farm to real life, then thanks Photomatron beta testers and announces the song as his first iTunes single.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Intro: song written when FarmVille was more relevant; wilted crops but animals never die; song begins

  • ★★ Hank says he wrote the song a while ago, when FarmVille was a little more culturally relevant. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank jokes that everyone has wilted FarmVille crops, but the game's cows, chickens and pigs never die no matter how much you neglect them. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:24 — The FarmVille song

  • ★★★ In the song, a narrator who discovered FarmVille on Facebook prefers its adorable farm, where the sky is always blue and animals never die, to real life. (satire) — 00:00:24 · Facebook

    “Let me introduce you to my new home, Farmville”

  • ★★ The narrator admits it might not be real life but says he doesn't mind, since there is nowhere he would rather spend his time. (satire) — 00:01:50

00:02:11 — Thanks to Photomatron beta testers; the song as an iTunes single with fan-farm artwork; link in the doobly-doo; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank thanks people who submitted 'photomatronifications' for the video: Photomatron is software he is working on, still in beta (his Twitter followers had learned about the Photomatron beta), and it does not yet work in Firefox. — 00:02:11 · Twitter
  • ★ Hank says he has other plans for the Photomatron software and it's going to be pretty amazing. — 00:02:32
  • ★★★ Hank is releasing the song as a single on iTunes, something he has never done before and doesn't know if he will do again. — 00:02:32
  • ★★ Viewers submitted their farms for the single's artwork; Hank used one in which a viewer had written 'nerdfighters' with FarmVille items, and thanks her. — 00:02:53 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says the link to buy the single is in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:53 · doobly-doo

Humor (dominant)

  • FarmVille lets the narrator live the way he always dreamed without ever doing anything. — 00:00:24

    “Which is good because I don't like doing things”

  • Chorus: down on the farm where the sky is always blue... — 00:00:24

    “And we never kill the pigs and the cows never poo”

  • The narrator lists his FarmVille achievements. — 00:01:30

    “I got an oddly shaped house that I couldn't fit inside”

  • Hank apologises that the Photomatron beta failed for some users. — 00:02:32

    “It doesn't work with one of the lesser-known browsers. It's called Firefox.”

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Central: Farmville (song by Hank Green) · FarmVille (video game)

Also: doobly-doo · Facebook · Firefox · iTunes · Photomatron · Twitter

Only in the description or credits: Shmed · Zynga

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