I have a theory that you can put dubstep in the background of anything and make it into a YouTube sensation. Not that there’s anything wrong with competitive triangle climbing. I’m just saying that our brains have been programmed to react to certain audio cues regardless of what’s happening on camera. It’s like a Pavlovian response, except Pavlov never dropped a bass in his life. A video like this simply wouldn’t have the same effect if Debussy was sawing away in the background. It would be a much more pleasant and surreal video, but not front page of the Intertunnel material.

I suggest that we test my theory in some way. If we take a sport that seems outwardly tedious and layer on a little bit of dubstep will anyone notice? Will people find the sport more interesting than it actually is? Can we use this knowledge to make baseball, soccer, and golf watchable while sober? Nah, probably not. You’ll never be able to make soccer interesting under any circumstance.