Well thank you to Karl Woll for pointing out this vid to me:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fgfetA4Qo

While it’s cool to watch because, well, it’s a base jumping video… and when is that not cool? It’s not as exciting as it could be. Quite obviously a sanctioned publicity jump by Red Bull with Whistler Blackcomb’s full permission. Is it going to go ‘viral’? Well, I’m writing about it. Will it be a “social media success”? Doubtful. Because it’s not authentic. No one else could repeat it.

What would have been cooler, though, would be to see someone manage to do it on the sly. Like this:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0iSJQLfJ4

And while the Marc Ecko Air Force One tagging event is a fake… it received at least a million views and has been reposted and reposted to YouTube too many times to find all the versions out there.