Numa Numa Man is SAD!!!!

[MonkeyMAN111]

its so sad that people keep this link up because on the news (aol news) it said he was embarassed and wanted this whole thing to stop, some cruel people even made fun of him by by dancing around to the numa numa song like he did. So i have just one thing to say, im ashamed Ebaums and i wish you would take the numa numa song off because it would make me and Gary (the numa numa dancer) very happy :)

[_/`\o_]

Gary is that you?

[MonkeyMAN111]

no im just a concered citizen

[2000 civic si]

its so sad that people keep this link up because on the news (aol news) it said he was embarassed and wanted this whole thing to stop, some cruel people even made fun of him by by dancing around to the numa numa song like he did. So i have just one thing to say, im ashamed Ebaums and i wish you would take the numa numa song off because it would make me and Gary (the numa numa dancer) very happy :)


If you don't like what Ebaumsworld has then don't come. Just leave and never return. If people don't want to be embarrassed, then don't post shit on the internet, plus now since it's on the net now, good luck trying to get rid of it. Too many people have it. It has been passed around like cheap whores.

[Incoheria]

When/where did he say he was upset about it? There's nothing to be upset about. He's famous.

[sk0rch]

If you don't like what Ebaumsworld has then don't come. Just leave and never return. If people don't want to be embarrassed, then don't post shit on the internet, plus now since it's on the net now, good luck trying to get rid of it. Too many people have it. It has been passed around like cheap whores.
Do you love this site or do you think it sucks? Write all comments in here. It's not a place to just praise the site, it's comments!

[2000 civic si]

It's not a place to just praise the site, it's comments!


And i layed my comment on the table too. I know what this section is called, newbie. And i just gave my opinion on his comment, if you like then stay, if not, Holla at ya.

[Strifer]

go to www.new grounds.com where it started (w/ out the space in the URL) and go to his flash page,

you can clearly see he is more than happy with all the attention

[sk0rch]

And i layed my comment on the table too. I know what this section is called, newbie. And i just gave my opinion on his comment, if you like then stay, if not, Holla at ya.
Lol, I'm a newbie? You just came in December buddy. Anyways, your comment was clearly implying that you're mad that he stated his opinion about the video; that's what the point of this forum is for, to state opinions.

[the_nameless_on]

What has the numa numa guy got to be upset about?He is famous,plus he just released a special addition so he can't be that embarressed.btw I love numa numa its really funny(But it gets less funny FAST)

[MonkeyMAN111]

by the way people its said on the aol news that he told his grandma and i quote ( what his grandma said ) that he said "I just wish it would end"


P.S. if you did not kno he was talkin about the wholenuma numa thing

[skater910]

His version on NG has been updated. Obviously he likes all the attention.

If you supposedly saw this on "the aol news", then post the link and article.

[2000 civic si]

Anyways, your comment was clearly implying that you're mad that he stated his opinion about the video; that's what the point of this forum is for, to state opinions.


Your blowing this out of proportion, what i said and meant was that if he does not like what ebaumsworld post's, then don't come here, he laid his opinion and so did i. Getting mad on the internet and knowing there's nothing you can do about is retarded, so me Mad, no.

[wils0646]

Here's (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/nyregion/26video.html?) the article about that

[skater910]

Any working links? I searched Google News and came up with nothing.

[wils0646]

Any working links? I searched Google News and came up with nothing.

My link doesn't work? It works fine for me all of the time.

[2000 civic si]

My link doesn't work? It works fine for me all of the time.


Your link works, but you have to register or log in on that web site first b4 you can view anything.

[MonkeyMAN111]

ok heres the link- http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050226073809990007

so if you want to see it type that or go to aol news search and search numa numa OKKKKK.

[wils0646]

Here, I'll just post the text:

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa
By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE

Published: February 26, 2005


here was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.

But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear, and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Advertisement


Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.

His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.

To begin at the beginning:

Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

In December, the Web site news grounds, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.

The video can be seen here.

It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"

Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.

He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.

What's worse is that no one seems to understand.

"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.

In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.

"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.

The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.

"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of ***************.

"It's really time and place."

"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."

There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.

The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."

The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.

"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.

His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.

"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."

Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"

These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."

And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.

Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.

"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."

[VoOdoO-12]

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa
By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE

Published: February 26, 2005

There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.

But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear, and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.

His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.

To begin at the beginning:

Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

In December, the Web site ***************, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.

The video can be seen here.

It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"

Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.

He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.

What's worse is that no one seems to understand.

"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.

In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.

"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.

The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.

"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of ***************.

"It's really time and place."

"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."

There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.

The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."

The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.

"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.

His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.

"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."

Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"

These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."

And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.

Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.

"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."




There ya go.

Dammit, I was beaten.

[MonkeyMAN111]

thta proves that i was right numa numa man ( Gary ) isnt happy bout this.

[Waysloppy]

ok...


Ok, if anyone at my school was to see
my numa numa dance (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=ASF_0015)... I would freak out...

But if I was invited to appear on NBC's Today.... I wouldn't give a fuck anymore... I would go on the show, say it wasn't supposed to be like that, and have a laugh about it, crack some jokes and enjoy my short fame.... If I were to meet him, I’d buy him a beer you know. For the good laugh… Someone needs to show this kid that we think its funny, not laughing at him, just with him. Cause I’m sure that he didn't make that as a serious video..

yal get where I’m coming from?


No, I am definitely laughing AT him.

It amazes me that he didn't figure people would make fun of him. People make these stupid ass videos and think they are really cool. Then when people make fun of them they feel like victims. Ghostdog, you even said you wouldn't want anyone at your school to see yours. But you have a good attitude about going on tv. But nobody wants to be famous for being a total fuckup.

I also like how the article calls him pudgy. :D

[Rocky Bios]

ok...


Ok, if anyone at my school was to see
my numa numa dance (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=ASF_0015)... I would freak out...

But if I was invited to appear on NBC's Today.... I wouldn't give a fuck anymore... I would go on the show, say it wasn't supposed to be like that, and have a laugh about it, crack some jokes and enjoy my short fame.... If I were to meet him, I’d buy him a beer you know. For the good laugh… Someone needs to show this kid that we think its funny, not laughing at him, just with him. Cause I’m sure that he didn't make that as a serious video..

yal get where I’m coming from?


I actually think your numa numa dance is a lot cooler than the original. :) But then again i didn't think the original was that funny to begin with. I agree that the numa numa kid should realize people like his video, and he's not in the same criteria as the Star Wars kid. At least to me he isn't, anyway.

[YankeesSuck]

He shouldnt of made the video then. I dont get how he cant like this attention, he is one popular person.

[MonkeyMAN111]

ghostdog i just want to kno where you just tryin to make fun of gary you jerk :censor:

[MonkeyMAN111]

yes you are an asshole waysloppy go to hell :censor:


sory ghostdog i didnt read every thing you said in the you wrote

[2000 civic si]

monkeyman111 why don't you just stop coming here, cuz if you keep double posting you'll be history. I thought AfroMan's impressionation of gary was cool. Sorry GhostDog, but i just loved your afro man. :bang:

[dennisthemenace]

Gary, star wars kid, and 'fat asian kid' can all lick my balls for all i care.

MonkeyMan, no one cares that you dont like it. Neither Ebaum, nor any other website out there will take it down just because a pretentious asshole like you doesnt think its funny. Monkeyman, you suck at life.

[Glue Ninja]

The news reported doesn't even know the proper name of the website. He called it "news grounds."

Plus he called the kid fat multiple times. Mr. News man is neither politically correct nor good at what he does. He should be fired.

[wils0646]

The news reported doesn't even know the proper name of the website. He called it "news grounds."

Plus he called the kid fat multiple times. Mr. News man is neither politically correct nor good at what he does. He should be fired.

No, that was my bad. I typed it in wrong because it stars out ***************. See?

[bckthd]

numa numa...

[Deathw1sh]

ok...


Ok, if anyone at my school was to see
my numa numa dance (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=ASF_0015)... I would freak out...

But if I was invited to appear on NBC's Today.... I wouldn't give a fuck anymore... I would go on the show, say it wasn't supposed to be like that, and have a laugh about it, crack some jokes and enjoy my short fame.... If I were to meet him, I’d buy him a beer you know. For the good laugh… Someone needs to show this kid that we think its funny, not laughing at him, just with him. Cause I’m sure that he didn't make that as a serious video..

yal get where I’m coming from?
I agree with you 100%, as usual, and, as usual, waysloppy prides himself in being an asshole. :rolleyes:

[doorknobopener]

gary shouldn't of agree to do that interview about how he really feeled. Now all the assholes out there have some fodder to make fun of him. If it were me i wouldn't of cared what these :censor: kids say. I would think that thoose people are nothing more then :censor: with no lives. Besides sooner or later peole will forget about him. I mean come on people now a days are starting to forget about William hung.

[2000 civic si]

gary shouldn't of agree to do that interview about how he really feeled. Now all the assholes out there have some fodder to make fun of him. If it were me i wouldn't of cared what these :censor: kids say. I would think that thoose people are nothing more then :censor: with no lives. Besides sooner or later peole will forget about him. I mean come on people now a days are starting to forget about William hung.


William WHO????????? Like i said before, if he didn't want the exposure, then he shouldnt have posted himself doing the NUMA NUMA DANCE then.

[robloc93]

I think the videos pretty cool,I usually find myself watching it to get a good laugh. At least it wasn't as bad as that Titanic fat guy or the worst one of all...the Aicha kid thats dancing around like a pansy.You guys remember that one??how pathetic,now he should be embarrassed.

[Bubba-E]

Well, personaly I think the movie is funny. Not the guy. He did good at it. Personaly I wish he would do another thing like that, it would be great.

[Yeti Patrol]

Wtf? Embarassed? The Numa Numa man should be proud. I don't care how 'gay' people say it is, he's got big cajones to do that. And I liked the video, i think Numa Numa Man is kickass.

[V1ru5]

Numa Numa man should be proud. hell, i would love to be an internet star.

[NeverKnowsBest]

This stupid video was never even funny. If I found a video of someone laughing at this video that would be 10x funnier.

[Sezril]

Blasphemy! Everyone wants to be an internet celebrity!

[PsiRedEye22]

(Sezril, my 60 Paladin can kick your Tauren's ass :D)

I think the numa numa kid should be commended. I think back then, it seemed like a good idea topost yourself doing some stupid shit online, like the Star Wars kid, and get poked at in message boards, much like we're doing right now.

The fad hit too hard. I mean c'mon, news media? Interviews? If YOU posted this online, would you think it would seriously get THAT popular? The kid is getting daily phone calls from the fuckin' press. No one should expect that, and as much as I agree with Waysloppy on some shit, I think he is wrong in that respect.

The movie is funny, but Jesus, it's not "News At 10" funny.

[halo2]

dont know whats being said and for all i no its really talking about nazi power. but i dont care between gary dancing and the music i cant help but have it on loop for as long as im on my com. Its like someones beaming happiness staight into my hears and making my brain have a foreign music orgasm. Well ether way i love to listen to this and forget how much the world sucks. Much love to gary brolsma and im hearing some Bullshit about the romainian government get their panties in a bunch and sueing you for this. if this is true i think they should fuck themselves because all he did was dance to a song tape it and make everyone instantly love him for it. They should feel honnored it was a song from their country that became so popular.

gary brolsma i salute u, there is no reason u should be embarassed. you have made so many ppl happy. you got balls kid. i dont have the guts to did what u did :bow: :bang: :bow: :bang:

[Tokki]

They showed the clip on news here in Finland. I cant remember what they said, but they played it for good 20-30 seconds. On news, damn it! Hell yeah, he should be proud and stop whining :cool:

[halo2]

i have proof that hes happy,

from *************** gary himself wrote the following...

Comments by the Author(s) of Numa Numa Dance
(Rated 4.14/5.00 by our users).
Holy crap!!! 1 million views!!!

You people are crazy! Just to let you all know, yes, this is the original location of the Numa Numa Dance... right here on NG. The internet sent it around like crazy, and it's wound up on over 80 websites that I could find, with an appearance on CNN, and just now on VH1's Best Week Ever. I've recieved tons of e-mail's and hits to my website, and I just want to thank you for all the feedback that you've given me.

For people who still don't know, yes that is me in the video, and the song is entitled "Dragostea Din Tea" by the Romanian pop band "O-Zone".

This is the special version where you can turn the subtitles on and off, and play it without the pictures in-between.



if he is making speacial versions, then he must be happy :)

[Tokki]

Comments by the Author(s) of Numa Numa Dance
(Rated 4.14/5.00 by our users).
Holy crap!!! 1 million views!!!

I wonder how old is that comment since i heard it was like over 2 million views now. So meaby he's sick of it now :)

[halo2]

theres 80 websites hosting it and in newgrounds you have to be a user to post a view and i dont think everyone that watches it is a user

[Deathw1sh]

I understand the star wars kid being pissed off and embarassed, he didn't even mean for anyone else to see that, and it was more moronic than funny, but the numa numa guy knew exactly what he was doing.. he should be able to laugh it off, it's no biggie, everyone loves him

and how do you know the guy on ng is the real numanuma guy?

[BurkeWorld]

Personally, it just looks like a plague, spreading around everywhere. It's just a passing fad and will die away along with every other flash-in-the-pan thing that comes along on the almighty internet.

Burkey

PS, I can dance to pop music too, can I be famous and interviewed by many media corperations? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Hell no. :sleeping: :rolleyes: :sleeping: