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At one point or another, many students have made sarcastic comments about the school they adore. It's so convenient that the cafeteria closes at 7 p.m., and that the writing center is not open during finals week. The gym is never crowded at the beginning of each semester. It's little things like this that students say, but mostly never mean.
This is why Student Government Chief Financial Officer Alyssa K. Bradt's YouTube video (or AKB as she is affectionately dubbed by her friends), is such a hit with the Marist community. Her video pokes fun at all the little things that students comment on while spending their glory days at school.
The idea started off as a joke between SGA members. During winter session, the SGA team went to the Eveready Diner together. While at the diner, the topic of the "Sh*t Nobody Says" videos series came up. The running joke was that Sophomore Class President Deborah Akinwunmi would never be Deborah.Akinwunmi2@marist.edu. Soon, the entire table was erupting in different things that nobody would say. What went unnoticed at the table, however, was SGA Senator Courtney Lawlor taking notes of what people were saying on her iPhone so they could be referenced later on during the semester.
Gianathony Damasco, freshman class president, said "I didn't understand what this was at first, and then I started listening to what people were talking about, and I understood."
Even returning and veteran members of SGA had its doubts about how big a hit this video actually could be.
Meaghan Neary, president of the class of 2012, said that "Honestly, I thought it was not going to be as big a hit as it actually was."
Bradt explained that after reading the list, she decided to go ahead and make the video. She began filming on her Kodak Easy Share camera the first day of classes, and by 4 p.m., she had completed it. Using her friends from SGA and her Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters to act in the video, she had all her scenes filmed only hours later. After uploading her first video to Youtube, she asked four friends to share the video, and later that night, there were already 300 views. The next morning there were over 3,000 views. By the time this issue was assembled on Tuesday night, there were 7,425 views.
The video was an instant hit with members of SGA. Bradt was worried about how her video may come across to different people who could be offended by some of the lines delivered in the video. For example, a communication major is seen saying, "Communications is the hardest major!" According to Bradt, this offended some communication majors who find certain aspects of their major challenging. However, this did not stop a majority of students and professionals from enjoying the light-hearted humor of the video.
"I just kind of did it, and I really hope no one was offended by it! I showed it to different administrators and they laughed, so I figured I was ok. After all, this video is not about making fun of Marist, but showing how good the school can be. Like, no one would ever say the underpass is so inconvenient, because it is simply not true!"Bradt said.
Neary admitted, though it was in good humor, that she did not like having to talk about graduation.
"I mean, I say I am happy about graduating, when I am really not! I would never say that!"
Would Bradt ever consider making a sequel to the video? Don't get your hopes up—she has already ruled out that possibility.
"I think the video is the perfect length and has just enough jokes about Marist to be appropriate and fun. If it were any longer, I think people would have lost interest."
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