Gingers do have souls! - by Ingvild Firman Fjellså

By Ingvild Firman Fjellså

“GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS!”

In 2005 on the 9th of November, South Park aired an episode called “Ginger Kids” were they mocked red haired people. In this episode the character Cartman claims that read haired people, or gingers, are infected by a virus which is called “Gingervitus” and has no souls. Full episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e11-ginger-kids

As a result of this 18-year Micheal, calling him self “CopperCab”, posted a video on YouTube on January 14th in 2010. In his video, called “GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS!”, he highly emotional expresses his anger and frustration of being bullied for being a ginger. He blames South Park for the ongoing discrimination of gingers and he wants them to put a stop to it. http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&v=EY39fkmqKBM

During the first month on the Internet the video was viewed over 3 million times (Know your meme 2010). By march 2012 the video got nearly 27 million hits on YouTube. According to YouTube's own statistics the video is most popular in north America, Australia and north Europe, by people in the ages between 13 and 24 (YouTube 2012).

“CopperCap”s video got a big amount of responses in short time. This in form of remixes of the original movie, parodies, response videos, pictures, memes and gadgets to buy. 

Obama “Gingers do not have souls: http://troll.me/gingers-do-not-have-souls/

Coppecap “I got 99 problems but soul ain't one”:
http://www.damnlol.com/gingers-do-have-souls-9526.html
CopperCap video remix:http://www.youtube.com/watchv=4ZIRLvVnXmg&feature=related
T-shirt “Gingers do have souls”:

http://www.zazzle.comgingers_do_have_souls_tshirt-235191692416658754

CopperCap himself keeps on posting follow up videos where he expresses his rage against uncivilized and discriminating behavior on and of the Internet. 

Sources:

*YouTube(2012) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EY39fkmqKBM

*Know your meme(2010): http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gingers-do-have-souls

*South Park Digital Studios (2011):
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e11-ginger-kids