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Audio-sharing site the toast of International teletype network
By now everyone’s heard of VacYoumTube.com, the audio-sharing site. With its slogan — “Broadcast yourself, kiddo” — sounding a clarion call across the airwaves to people the world over, VacYoumTube has taken over the International teletype network like no other site. It’s even surpassed “Go-Ogle” in terms of popularity. Rumor has it that the geniuses who run Go-Ogle are planning to buy VacYoumTube for a pretty penny.
But what are people listening to on VacYoumTube? Themselves, mostly. People with home recording equipment are encouraged to create accounts and upload their own audio programs for the enjoyment of others. Quality, of course, varies considerably, from the kind of thing you’d never hear on modern radio right up to professional-quality productions worthy of WNBC.
In fact some of the programs are WNBC’s property, says spokesman Ryan Ellis. “Our crack team of investigative reporters has uncovered many, many of NBC’s programs being posted by crooks and hoodlums, including Saturday Night Live Starring Ryan Seacrest and The Law and Order Hour. If these people think they can continue to thumb their noses at the law, they’ve got another thing coming!” Ellis reports that WNBC is working closely with New York State Attorney General Eliot “Ness” Spitzer to track down those nefarious evildoers.
They’ll have a lot of ground to cover. VacYoumTube is home to some 100 million audio clips ranging from a few seconds long to several minutes. And most of them are made perfectly legally by amateurs and semi-amateurs. Some are even trained professionals trying to make their first big break into traditional broadcasting. For example, there’s the series Chad Manchu — Day Shift Manager, which has reportedly been viewed over six million times. The series, which consists of eight episodes about six minutes long, follows the adventures of Fu Manchu’s younger brother Chad as he works as a day-shift manager at the Yellow Peril Five and Dime. Originally broadcast on Chicago’s WMAQ, Chad Manchu was cancelled after one episode, but the creators, Matthew Sloane and Aaron Yonder, decided to keep it in production and broadcast it over VacYoumTube.
Law enforcement will also have to wade through many millions of minutes of bizarre and borderline smutty audio, such as the clip which took the international teletype networks by storm a few months ago. Titled “Two Girls One Mike” and uploaded under an alias, this five-minute program consists entirely of retching noises and what might be the sound of passing wind, followed by the undignified slurping of what we can only assume must be soup.