Wii Fit girl gets her own back on ‘The Tyra Banks Show’
It may have taken the Wii Fit girl over three months to get her own back on the boyfriend who uploaded a video of her in her underwear to YouTube, but she’s now finally managed it, and this time it definitely isn’t Nintendo PR… we think.
Not long after Wii Fit was released on the Nintendo Wii, a video appeared on YouTube showing an attractive girl in just a t-shirt and pair of knickers playing the hula hoop mini-game. The video then went viral, being linked to and embedded on websites all over the Internet. The girl was then tracked down and rumours started flying over whether the video was quite as off the cuff and improvised as it first appeared.
Lauren Bernat, the girl in the video, and Giovanny Gutierrez, the guy who films the video and then sticks his tongue out at the end, both work in advertising, with a particular focus on viral marketing campaigns. The obvious assumption to make was that this was just another viral marketing effort, with the pair paid by Nintendo for the publicity given to the game.
Nintendo denied this, and it seems that it was merely a boyfriend catching his girlfriend exercising half naked and then sharing it with the world for his own amusement. But, according to Kotaku, the girlfriend in question has now got her own back by managing to get Gutierrez to strip off and shake his bum on national television via The Tyra Banks Show. Here is the video for you all to laugh/gag/stare at.
It’s strange but being a red-blooded heterosexual male, this video just doesn’t have the same effect on me as the original. Maybe it’s the fact that men’s underwear is entirely non-sexual, or just the fact that Bernat has got a much finer derrière than Gutierrez, but this really doesn’t do it for me.
I don’t think this is Nintendo PR although I still have my doubts about the original. But whether it is just another manufactured viral or not, the couple have been extremely clever in gaining publicity and keeping their celebrity going beyond a few days. If there is ever a Wii Fit 2, what are the chances of Bernat’s bottom making the cover? I’d buy it.
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September 22nd, 2008
I agree Dave, this video doesn’t have the same, urr, impact as the first.