Where are the English-Speaking Countryballs?

If you have no idea what a "countryball" is, you're not alone in the English-Speaking world. Countryballs have gone viral on Facebook and other social media sites in places like Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, and Venezuela, and are rapidly spreading, even to places like Africa. Despite their roaring success elsewhere, Countryballs are relatively unknown in the U.S., Great Britain, and Australia, my big question is:

Why?

Old I Remember Clifford Performance

I just recently blew the dust off this old YouTube video, and was surprised to find that it had been collecting views while I ignored it, it's up to over 1600, which isn't bad for a video I never really promoted. Keep in mind that this was quite a while ago, so the quality isn't the best, but it's definitely not the worst.

1000 Views!

I just hit 1000 views, and would like to thank everyone who's taken a look at my blog over the last month since I started it back up, as well as everyone who looked at it all the way back in 2006 when I started it originally.

Thank you!

MarketGlory Review (transplanted from old blog)

I've been playing this online game for about a week now, and as far as in-browser strategy games go, it's not all that bad. The game is designed as a political and market simulator that allows you to both deposit and withdraw real cash in Euros. Now, I'm not playing this as a get rich quick scheme, nor do I think it will actually make me any real money, but it's a good way to work out your brain in your off time, and the possibility of a real profit entices you back, even if you need to play for a thousand hours to make one measely Euro.

PTC Sites (Transplanted from my other blog)

Hate to break it to all you surfers out there who want to make a quick buck off the internet, but PTC sites are a big waste of time and energy, all of them. If you want to make money off the internet, you need to have an idea, a much better idea than this blog, and definitely a much better idea than sitting around in your underwear, glancing at PTC ads for 30 seconds and making $0.0001 for doing it. If any PTC site says you're going to make much more than that, don't even bother registering, if you snoop around, you'll find that many PTC sites actually say they're going to pay you more than what they charge for ad hosting, which is a bunch of BS. These sites don't pay, and if their TOS says anything at all about paying, it's generally something like "you must invest to recieve a payout" or "payout will be made in an undisclosed amount of time, equal or less than 1000 years from the payout request date". Nobody actually reads the TOS anyway, especially not those of us who've ever been stuck in that dark, dreary place called desperation, the one that takes you to PTC sites in the first place.

Roamler App Review

You've probably seen ads for apps like this one that allow you to make money from home, or work, or the bus, or wherever, as long as you have internet, and don't mind downloading possibly malicious programs to your cellphone for pennies at a time (best done with wi-fi, here in Chile at least you would spend more on the mobile data to download the apps you would then delete than you'd make). You may have even tried a few out, upon seeing these ads again and again and again, I gave a few of them a try and found exactly what I described above, these apps have since been deleted, and if you have one, I'd recommend doing the same. (More info about why you might want to avoid most of the apps you may be paid to download here). Now, don't get me wrong, the apps themselves aren't all that bad, and unlike the PTC sites I wrote about on my other blog here, (that blog will be closed soon, I'll move the posts as soon as I get around to it) they actually will pay you for what you do, once you hit a dollar or so, which takes a while. The problem is that downloading something that's potentially malicious to a device which holds all of your personal information is usually bad news.

Roamler is different.

Creativity that never ceases to amaze me... (corrected)

After doing a bit of research (honestly mostly just reading the comments on the youtube video) I found out that the video wasn't at all made to go along with the song. Notwithstanding, it goes quite well with the meaning of the song as I interpret it, and could definitely be worse. In order to credit the original makers of the video, I've added the original (with original audio) below. It's also worth the watch, and gives a slightly different spin to what I got out of it the first time.