YouTube Star Brings 'Happy Dance' To Thailand

[nicky1982]

What a load of BS whenever i have seen it really ... these idiots make me laugh they need to really have a good look at themselves and also maybe have a reality check to see what's happening in the world ? i could see the money been put to better use like helping the poor who badly need money to rebuild their lives after the floods ? I can also see this going on YouTube and they only people who look at this are the people here in Thailand i also can see them going to there bosses and saying look at how many hit 's it has got and that will be the last we here about this anyway

Amazing Thailand youtube feel like i wanna go to sleep after this boring really boring ... They have no idea really also funny when he say what lovely weather we are having but it's so dark in the background

Amazing Thailand to Thai song 'Monsaiyok' <deleted>

Edited December 10, 2011 by nicky1982

[Oberkommando]

I hope he had the correct non-immigrant business visa and work permit for undertaking this work.

I also hope he didn't contravene any Thai laws about foreigners working in the tourism industry.

[TAWP]

Nothing against Matt. If he now managed to get paid by TAT for what he is famous for, then more power to him.

But I am a little concerned that TAT seemed to have come up with the campaign only some 3 years after Matt's most seen video was posted, 5 years after his first multimillion-seen video of the same concept was posted. News travel slow to the TAT.

[Jingthing]

They could try the Israeli approach I am sure it will work.

Israeli Tourism Commercial

This one is better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pQNYZk4WE

[sydneyjed]

He's already on Visa commercial...

[nicky1982]

Surprised he got a working visa after reading this also some of us people have to work very hard to get a visa ,,, also is this the best they can do The Tourism Authority of Thailand ..

About Matt

Matt is a 35-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he'd saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is. A few months into his trip, a travel buddy gave Matt an idea. They were standing around taking pictures in Hanoi, and his friend said "Hey, why don't you stand over there and do that dance. I'll record it." He was referring to a particular dance Matt does. It's actually the only dance Matt does. He does it badly. Anyway, this turned out to be a very good idea.A couple years later, someone found the video online and passed it to someone else, who passed it to someone else, and so on. Now Matt is quasi-famous as "That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I'll send you the link. It's funny." The response to the first video brought Matt to the attention of the nice people at Stride gum. They asked Matt if he'd be interested in taking another trip around the world to make a new video. Matt asked if they'd be paying for it. They said yes. Matt thought this sounded like another very good idea. In 2006, Matt took a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. In that time, he danced a great deal. The second video made Matt even more quasi-famous. In fact, for a brief period in July, he was semi-famous. Things settled down again, and then in 2007 Matt went back to Stride with another idea. He realized his bad dancing wasn't actually all that interesting, and that other people were much better at being bad at it. He showed them his inbox, which, as a result of his semi-famousness, was overflowing with emails from all over the planet. He told them he wanted to travel around the world one more time and invite the people who'd written him to come out and dance too. The Stride people thought that sounded like yet another very good idea, so they let him do it. And he did. And now it's done. And he hopes you like it. Matt lives in Seattle, Washington with his girlfriend, Melissa, and dog, Sydney. He hasn't had a real job since Stride called him up. Matt doesn't mind working, but he doesn't much care for having to show up at the same place every day. Matt is not rich. Matt also doesn't have some magical secret for traveling cheaply. He does it pretty much the same way everybody else does. Matt thinks Americans need to travel abroad more. Matt was a very poor student and never went to college. When he got older, he was pleased to discover that no one actually cares. Matt doesn't want to imply that college is bad or anything. He's just saying is all. There's other ways to fill your head. Matt is left-handed. When Matt was younger, he could hang seven spoons on his face at once. Sadly, puberty made Matt's face less conducive to spoon-hanging. Matt's Xbox Live screen name is BadDancer. He plays a lot of Rock Band. Matt has a little piece of extra cartilage sticking out on the rim of one ear and a little hole in the same place on the other ear. Since saying so on this page, he's been informed that the extra piece of cartilage is called a Darwinian Tubercle. Matt thinks this is pretty much the greatest name for anything ever. Matt has never lost a staring contest.

http://www.wheretheh...matt.com/about/

Edited January 7, 2012 by nicky1982

[ttelise]

It is with a heavy heart that they use a farang to promote Thailand. Does this actually mean that a Thai dancing man could not do it better than a farang. When all else fails turn to a farang for help.

Heavy heart, umh okay. Haha, but why is this so bad. He has 40,000,000 YouTube hits on a single video. That is a butt load of exposure and probably more so than a dancing Thai man might ever see.