YouTube Generation

What compels the newest generation of youngsters to post videos like the one below? I mean, it is really quite charming until you realize that they posted it on purpose.


Then again, back in the day, me and my friends made a video of our lip synch to Pete Townsend's "Face the Face" -- and I was playing lead tennis racket. We probably thought it was the coolest thing ever and would have posted it to YouTube, had it existed. So go fig.