BLR for short is one of the best YouTube channels to procrastinate to.
Run by a group of anonymous individuals, their main focus is spoof clips of films, tv shows, and sports events that are overdubbed to match perfectly with the lip movements of the targets.
The blogger behind the channel, sometimes referred to as The Bad Lip Reader, has claimed that he used to mute his television after his mother lost her hearing in an attempt to understand what she was going through. During this experiment, he realized that he was not very good at lip reading and often misread what the people were saying. Later in life, he was inspired to make videos of his misinterpretations after watching footage of a radio talk show where one of the hosts was mouthing words in between talking. While trying to figure out what he was saying, he came up with random word combinations including “bacon hobbit” and “moose potion, poke me.” He then recorded the phrases, syncing this audio with the video and found that it looked believable
As of August 2013, the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel has 41 videos, more than 2.3 million subscribers and more than 248 million views, receiving an average of 276,000 views each day. Videos and GIFs of Bad Lip Reading episodes can be also found on almost every single social media site in the world
It’s funny to see the YouTube version of a game that many of us have played while people watching, but these guys are spot on at accurately matching the movement of people’s lips. Enjoy and happy procrastinating
