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Fail Like a Boss is a viral video starring a man named Hélio Imaginário attempting to ride a longboard down a street in Portugal. At the beginning of the video, his friend warns him not to be scared to which he replies, "Puto, o medo é uma cena que… a mim não me assiste" (Dude, fear is something that… doesn't assist me). While riding down the street, Hélio begins to lose control, almost crashes into a car and screams before falling into a ditch. The two men not shown in the video are his friends Nuno and Guedes.

Origin

The video titled "Fail like a boss – EPIC" was uploaded to YouTube by user karpinremo on July 18th, 2011. It took place on the Estrada Atlântica road in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Spread

Total views: 1,289,699 .5M 1M 500k 0 07/20/11 07/22/11 Ratings: 9136 Likes: 9015 Dislikes: 121 I Comments: 3.365 Favorites: 3,793

The video was posted to Reddit the same day it was uploaded to YouTube on July 18th, 2011. The post was titled "Hipster roll", and received 931 up votes. In 3 days the video reached 1 million views, mostly from viewers in Portugal, Angola, Brasil and North America.

It reached the #17th spot on Unruly Media's ViralVideoChart[2] in all categories on July 20th, 2011.

David Guetta-Where Them Girls At ft. Nicki 16 38,928 shares in last 24 hours Get statsWatch video See original 17 Fail like a boss-EPIC 36,062 shares in last 24 hours Trending Get statsWatch video See original Adele Rolling In The Deep 18, 34,860 shares in last 24 hours Get statsWatch video See original

On July 20th, 2011, the website Cão Azul[5] began selling shirts referencing the video.

Several Facebook[4] pages have been created, the most popular of which has over 23,000 likes as of July 22nd, 2011.

@kellyslater Kelly Slater This is so sketchy! Haha. Speed wobbles, almost hits oncoming car, and endo's. Lucky he makes the grass. youtube.com/watch?v=5nTAn6·.. Fail like a boss EPIC

On July 28th, 2011 the professional surfer Kelly Slater tweets about this video.

Viral Marketing Campaign Rumors

An edited version of the video was uploaded to YouTube on July 19th that pointed out the prominent Nike logo on Hélio's shoe, which is clearly shown for 7 seconds (14% of the total video).

Derivatives

Videos

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Audio Remixes
Ó guedes sai da frente! by crxpo

Online Games

  • A flash game called "Super Helio World"[3] was designed by Bernado Vestia where the player tries to ride a longboard without falling.
  • Guedes Web Java/ unity game, where you try to stay on road, with audio interaction (audio voices from tu bates mal man, when B is pressed)

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  • Fail Like a Boss – The Game A game for windows operating system Developed by Francisco Pinheiro where we can publish our scores online. This game has more than a thousand downloads and site three thousand views.

External References

[1] Reddit – Hipster roll

[2] Unruly Media – Viral Video Chart

[3] Bernado Vestia – Super Helio World

[4] Facebook – Helio Imaginario Facebook (official facebook page)

[5] Cao Azul

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Fail Like a Boss is a viral video starring a man named Hélio Imaginário attempting to ride a longboard down a street in Portugal. At the beginning of the video, his friend warns him not to be scared to which he replies, "Puto, o medo é uma cena que… a mim não me assiste" (Dude, fear is something that… doesn't assist me). While riding down the street, Hélio begins to lose control, almost crashes into a car and screams before falling into a ditch. The two men not shown in the video are his friends Nuno and Guedes.

Origin

The video titled "Fail like a boss – EPIC" was uploaded to YouTube by user karpinremo on July 18th, 2011. It took place on the Estrada Atlântica road in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.



Spread


Total views: 1,289,699 .5M 1M 500k 0 07/20/11 07/22/11 Ratings: 9136 Likes: 9015 Dislikes: 121 I Comments: 3.365 Favorites: 3,793


The video was posted to Reddit the same day it was uploaded to YouTube on July 18th, 2011. The post was titled "Hipster roll", and received 931 up votes. In 3 days the video reached 1 million views, mostly from viewers in Portugal, Angola, Brasil and North America.

It reached the #17th spot on Unruly Media's ViralVideoChart[2] in all categories on July 20th, 2011.


David Guetta-Where Them Girls At ft. Nicki 16 38,928 shares in last 24 hours Get statsWatch video See original 17 Fail like a boss-EPIC 36,062 shares in last 24 hours Trending Get statsWatch video See original Adele Rolling In The Deep 18, 34,860 shares in last 24 hours Get statsWatch video See original

On July 20th, 2011, the website Cão Azul[5] began selling shirts referencing the video.


Several Facebook[4] pages have been created, the most popular of which has over 23,000 likes as of July 22nd, 2011.

@kellyslater Kelly Slater This is so sketchy! Haha. Speed wobbles, almost hits oncoming car, and endo's. Lucky he makes the grass. youtube.com/watch?v=5nTAn6·.. Fail like a boss EPIC

On July 28th, 2011 the professional surfer Kelly Slater tweets about this video.

Viral Marketing Campaign Rumors



An edited version of the video was uploaded to YouTube on July 19th that pointed out the prominent Nike logo on Hélio's shoe, which is clearly shown for 7 seconds (14% of the total video).

Derivatives

Videos


[This video has been removed]







More can be found in the video gallery below.

Audio Remixes

Ó guedes sai da frente! by crxpo

Online Games

  • A flash game called "Super Helio World"[3] was designed by Bernado Vestia where the player tries to ride a longboard without falling.
  • Guedes Web Java/ unity game, where you try to stay on road, with audio interaction (audio voices from tu bates mal man, when B is pressed)

.

  • Fail Like a Boss – The Game A game for windows operating system Developed by Francisco Pinheiro where we can publish our scores online. This game has more than a thousand downloads and site three thousand views.

External References

[1] Reddit – Hipster roll

[2] Unruly Media – Viral Video Chart

[3] Bernado Vestia – Super Helio World

[4] Facebook – Helio Imaginario Facebook (official facebook page)

[5] Cao Azul

Media References

Recent Videos 12 total

Recent Images 126 total



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