Although Muammar Gaddafi has fewer and fewer real world followers, his online popularity continues to grow. Libya's fallen leader has become the centre of many parody videos.
Holland's best-scoring hit was made by Diederik Winter from The Hague, and imagines Gaddafi phoning in to Astro TV for advice from the station's clairvoyant Carolien. The clip has 300,000 hits to date.
The clips' popularity inspired Dutch humanist development organisation Hivos to name its new free speech campaign "Subtitle the tyrant". (Add your own subtitles here - link in Dutch)
The Hivos site offers viewers the chance to add their own subtitles to footage of Gaddafi and fellow dictators, Kim Jong-il of North Korea and Mahmoud Amadinejad of Iran. Thousands of people have offered their "translations" in many languages. The site has had a million pageviews so far.
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to my side here in calgary,he and this video bring me great laughing moment without knowing what against is yet.
as ordinary people i merely know him on internet,by judging him from his appearance,perhaps it is normal politician smiles less nowadays.
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