Few if any express sympathy for the humiliated, knocked-out, or stone-cold-dead individuals seen in the videos.Īs evidenced by last week’s posting, “ These Cops in the Bronx NY Are Out of Control!,” in which four large NYPD officers engage in a Rodney King–style beating of a suspect (resulting in the cops losing their guns and badges), the WSHH meme is having an effect well beyond the Net. Instead, you whip out your smartphone, vid the action, and upload it on WorldStar.Īccompanied by the sort of tabloid-headline writing that would make any Australian phone hacker swoon, videos run by WSHH in the past several months include “ Foolery: Off-Duty McDonald’s Manager Fired After Punching a Mother With Autistic Kids for Bringing a Guide Dog in Restaurant!” “ Police Kill Deaf Cyclist With Stun Gun!” “ 41 Deep Brawl, Guys Getting Jumped for Talking About There Baby Moms (Granny Came Out With the Shovel and Broom)!” and “ Lesbian Street Fight in ATL!” Most WSHH entries elicit hundreds of typically scabrous, grammatically eccentric, N-word-intensive comments. This is what it has come to: No longer do individuals sit idly by and watch a fellow citizen get attacked, as bystanders allegedly did in 1964, when Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her Kew Gardens apartment house. Obviously, you don’t have to be Jean Baudrillard to know a WSHH video in the making when you see one. Still, it wasn’t until Daniel Endara’s L‑train stomping that WorldStar went meta. With new vids constantly on display, a large portion of WSHH viewers, many hailing from the 18-to-34 male-demographic sweet spot, say they check the site at least once a day. This was ahead of Slate, CBS, and Merriam-Webster, and right behind Sprint and Travelocity. With 1.1 million people visiting the site’s archaically funky layout per day, WSHH, as of last week, was ranked the 278th-most-visited URL in the U.S., according to Alexa, a web-traffic-tracking service. Over the years, however, the site has separated itself from the competition by depicting what founder Lee “Q” O’Denat, a self-confessed “Haitian ghetto nerd” from Hollis, Queens, calls “the whole gamut A-to-Z soup-to-nuts the good, the bad, and the ugly of the urban experience.” From WorldStar’s POV, this includes a daily array of street fights and pushing matches in project hallways and camera scans of shoplifting incidents. “WorldStar,” for those who don’t know, is, which started in 2005 as just one more semi-swag hip-hop blog eventually featuring homemade videos of rappers and “sticky page” pix of buxom ladies.

What made this video different from the usual mélange of sucker punches and overlit swish pans was the voice on the soundtrack, the one that shouted, “WorldStar, baby!” In the ensuing mayhem, Endara was beaten with fists and kicked to the floor. Several of the shirtless man’s confederates converged on the scene. It was then, as shown in the one-minute-and-27-second recording of the event, that one of the teens, wearing no shirt despite the wintry weather, confronted Endara, who pushed him away. on November 8, 2011, when, with the train approaching the Myrtle/Wyckoff station, 25-year-old security guard Daniel Endara admonished a number of teenagers for spitting on the subway-car floor.

The infamous L-train subway-fight footage.įor students of Internet subway-fight videos, the genre entered a new realm of virality a couple of months ago on the L train.

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