Robert Kelly: my minor mistake turned family into YouTube stars
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/14/robert-kelly-children-interrupt-live-bbc-interview-south-korea
American academic whose live BBC interview was interrupted by his children talks about becoming an internet sensation. Robert Kelly was discussing the impeachment of South Korea’s president on BBC World News when his two children barged into his study in their apartment in Busan, South Korea. Many people have been taken by the swagger displayed by Marion, four, as she entered the room and marched up to her father’s desk.In the finest showbiz tradition of keeping the show on the road, Kelly valiantly attempted to guide Marion towards some toys, while hoping the broadcaster might narrow the camera angle or use some video of Park Geun-hye.
However, the channel did not cut away and as Kelly responded to a question about inter-Korean relations, his eight-month-old son, James, sailed through the open door in his baby walker on the polished wooden floor. “Then I knew it was over,” Kelly told the newspaper. The overwhelming response to the video, which soon went viral around the world, prompted the couple to turn off their smartphones and ignore social media for several days, unable to deal with the deluge of comments and requests to talk.
My opinion: Anything can go viral, seeing this was represented in a interview for BBC, the vast majority of the audience didn't expect anything to go wrong due to how high this organisation is, and the fact that it was humours, this did go viral and quickly become the topic to talk about. However, although it was funny seeing children disturb their fathers interview, there was another focus through this video; the lady that took away the children. The lady that does so was the wife but many people suspected the lady to be a nanny and that was due to the the stereotypes, which is really wrong. We as an audience are very quick to judge and assume things, this should never be the case, especially in situations like this, some audience take things more than they need to which were sometimes creates the problem.
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