Then I did Rebecca Black’s 'Friday' video the same way just for fun, and the whole thing exploded. I mean, my brain could come up with word combinations that fit their mouths, but I knew there was no way Peter Jennings was talking about 'stiff colored gnomes' or whatever I might have come up with. And sometimes I would mute the sound on the television and try to lip read the actors, just to try to understand what her world was like. **GQ: Hey, anonymous creator of these inspired viral videos, why did you start doing this? **īad Lip-Reading: The core of the concept goes back to the fact that my mother lost her hearing when she was in her 40s, and I watched as she learned to read lips as a grown adult.
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