<p dir="ltr">We’ve been twerked.</p>
Have you seen the latest viral video in which a young girl performs an “epic twerking fail”?  Well if you haven’t, first check it out here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_712Ee1GU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_712Ee1GU</a>

In the last week social sharing sites and video blogs alike have sent the video viral. The video posted last Tuesday has received over 9 million views so far. Most likely due to the recent phenomenon made widely popular by Miley Cyrus and her widely criticized VMA performance, known as “twerking.”

Like millions of others, I found myself watching the video last week after my boyfriend showed it to me on Facebook. All signs pointed to a true homemade “epic fail” video, and the start of the video even got people begging for more as she cut off the footage just as her yoga pants became engulfed in flames from her crash onto her candle-lit coffee table. If you’re like me, you were thinking “Was she okay? Did she get hurt?” or if you’re my boyfriend, “Who cares it’s hilarious to watch.”

Jimmy Kimmel announced last night on his show that video was indeed a set-up and poked fun at every media outlet that featured the video as if it were the real deal.
<p dir="ltr">Even though the video was a hoax, that didn’t stop hundreds of news outlets from initially showing it. As you can imagine, the outlashing against Miley Cyrus spurred up instantly, many claiming that the event was her fault and that twerking was dangerous. Good thing the video’s star, known as Caitlin, is in fact a stunt woman.</p>
What’s even more amazing is that the video was shot two months ago, prior to Miley’s “epic fail” performance on stage with singer Robin Thicke, but with the “twerking” trending so widely, it certainly aided in the discovery of the video that led it to its 9.3 million views. Well done folks, well done.

So what can we all learn from this viral video hoax? Video can be a powerful tool for marketing, but an easy target for fraud. I think my eyes were just opened to a whole new side of what I learned in college media classes: “You can’t always trust what you see and hear on the internet,” or apparently on the news either.

Best video hoax of all time? You tell us.
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