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Tribute

This story starts as innocent as any other. You sit down to your computer, fresh from the latest teen-pocket draining flick at the nearest megamoviecomplex, and open Windows Movie Maker. The default blue background blares at you from under the white Impact. Your mouse slides over the cardboard from a case of Miller Lite that you use as a mousepad and you open Internet Explorer 6.0.

Then with your favourite heartthrob’s lines still ringing in your head you promptly input their name into Google Image Search and download the first 80 results into a special folder called “Michael Cera” on your desktop.

What happen’s next can only be described as magic. With a few swishes of the wrist, vertically scrolling ‘<3’s and some tasteful transitions, you have yourself a perfect tribute YouTube video.

YEARS LATER

I sit at my computer late at night looking for that funny scene from Arrested Development to show one of my friends. Your video, accurately titled “George Michael Greatest Hits” appears on the screen…