The NYT has an article on the phenomena of YouTube users posting video clips of themselves watching other YouTube clips. Apparently this is a popular sport that includes multiple levels of regression. A user named Nornna apparently catalyzed the genre [link to YouTube search on "Nornna"—218 hits]
Posted by johndanseven at April 16, 2006 05:30 PMOne of the most discussed YouTube clips lately features a young woman who calls herself pizzelle2 watching a video of another YouTube user, who is watching another YouTuber, and so on. The video's recursiveness goes several steps deeper, until it reaches the promised land: the Wausau home of a 24-year-old woman known as Nornna, top right.
Nornna's videos, which number in the hundreds, are hardly salacious. Usually she is doing something completely commonplace: making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, powdering her feet, missing her bus, watching television. Some videos of Nonna, shown above at top, have been viewed more than 50,000 times. As her videos gained an audience, her fans started posting videos of themselves watching Nornna, and the momentum was unstoppable.