Where it all started

While I know now that ginger has been a slang term for read head since long bef ore I was born, the term was relatively unknown to me in my elementary school and early middle school days (excluding of course the Nickelodean classic As Tole By Ginger, about a nerdy redhead adolescent with some of the most interesting friends around, who I strongly related with for some reason). It wasn't until around 7th grade, around the end of 2009 or beginning of 2010, when I heard the word applied to me. Being the little social outcast I was, I didn't realize where this word had come from or why everyone but me knew it all of sudden. It wasn't until very recently that I found out it had been used in bigger cities for a while, but Iowa being Iowa, was behind in the latest hip terminology. The way it was finally brought to all of my lovely classmates was through a YouTube video. This video, entitled "GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS" was uploaded in January 2010 by the YouTube user CopperCab. This high freckled redhead went on a 3 minute rant in the mistreatment of gingers. To give you an idea of how popular the video is, it currently has almost 35 million views. Videos like these, known as viral videos becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media, and email. One of the reasons this video became so popular so quickly was the humorous aspect of it. Looking at his videos uploaded since the original ginger video, you can see he has tried to maintain that humor to keep the popularity. He attempts to retain the "anger" seen in his first video that brought so many viewers, but in my eyes it shows he is trying to hard to remain prominent. I can always appreciate a good laugh, but when putting things on the internet, I don't think people realize how careful they need to be. This video, or tweet, or status, or even blog post can be seen by anyone who has web access anywhere in the world. Chances are no matter what you are talking about, somewhere in the world someone can truly have their feelings hurt by anything you joke about. As unlikely as it may seem tot you, someone in the world is most likely struggling with the very thing you joke about. That's why I try to be very careful what I blog about, because it is always  hard to tell if someone is joking through writing when you can't judge their tone of voice or body language. For instance, I'm sure at least 10% of the people reading his couldn't tell if I was joking about me being connected to the girl Ginger. That's why I try to only joke about myself, so the only one who can get offended is me! So even when it is something as little as making videos on youtubr, you'll never know if it will go viral, and people across the country will be left wondering if you were serious or not. 
I've also decided that I need some catchy end phrase or signature line to end my posts because up til now they have always just ended, so with out further ado. 
This ginger is done preaching morals and internet etiquette for the day.