Dirty laundry just got a new location for outing

Okay, I’m not the first person to be discussing Tricia Walsh Smith’s video trashing her husband, et al, especially after the thing’s been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube. I’m certainly not going to be the last one, but some part of me feels like it’s an absolute necessity to address here at Groomify.

First off, I’ve gotta say that this is most certainly not going to be the last time that this kind of thing is done on YouTube, unless, of course, it ends up being fiscally detrimental to Mrs. Walsh Smith. It’s like anything else, once someone comes up with a slick idea, people continue to use it. Just wait, there’ll be a name for this manner of “outing” your dirty laundry via video online, give it a few days.

That said, I’m so amazed that this is actually still up on YouTube and isn’t actually part of an episode of ABC’s Boston Legal or something that it’s not even funny anymore. Those of us who work in the Web world have discussed what will happen with a lot of tools and trends once they actually make it to the “masses,” and by masses I don’t mean the few hundred thousand people who make spending entirely too much time in the world of Web 2.0 (and I don’t mean periodically reading blogs and such, but “industry”-folk) - and here, I think, is a good example. Video’s easy to make, and has been. YouTube is easy to use, and everyone’s got access to signing up for it. Cut up some bits of video, add some bumpers to it, and voila, you’ve got a trend-starting furor moving on up faster than George Jefferson.

So, gents and ladies, what do we think of the Tricia Walsh Smith video concoction? Stupid idea or excellent way to get payback?