Admit it. If you got YouTube dissed like this, you'd probably try to squash social media in your country, too.
In Libya, embattled dictator Moammar Gadhafi is clinging to his rule despite losing hold of cities on the outskirts of his capitol, all while the U.S. openly calls for his departure. But online, Gadhafi is already pursuing inadvertent extracurricular activities, like putting in a cameo appearance on a Pitbull and T-Pain track.
"Zenga Zenga," created by Israeli musician Noy Alooshe, remixes and Autotunes Gadhafi's rambling speech last week vowing to stay in power and crush the Libyan revolution. Gadhafi's repeated mention of the word "zanqa," Arabic for "alleyway" – where he'd kill his enemies – and his wild gesticulations gave the parody a natural name and rhythm, Alooshe told the New York Times. Alooshe's video has over a million views in less than a week since its creation.
Little wonder, then, that Ghadafi's goons are now hunting revolutionaries via their Facebook and Twitter accounts, the Washington Times reports. Social media has played a less prominent role in the Libyan uprising than it has in Egypt or Tunisia, but Ghadafi still tried to shut down the Libyan Internet when the revolution crested two weeks ago. That's led revolutionaries to physically drive to the Egyptian border to smuggle out video of Ghadafi's bloody repression on thumb drives and DVDs, all in the hope of going viral.
Most of the videos emerging from Libya purport to show, very explicitly, Ghadafi loyalists killing protesters (NSFW). But narcissistic rulers have a hard time with mockery. Now the Libyan Revolution has its own Numa Numa.
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