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Viral video of baby-snatching eagle to fund scholarship
Most watched YouTube video ever produced in Quebec
Golden Eagle Snatches Kid/YouTube
The baby-snatching fake eagle is helping a deserving student take flight.
The viral video of the eagle, which was created by students at Montreal’s Centre NAD, has received international media attention and had more than 41 million views on YouTube since it was posted on Dec. 18.
And the school says it’s also generated a few bucks that will go toward a scholarship for a deserving student at the 3D animation and digital design school.
School spokeswoman Claude Arsenault says the amount of the scholarship hasn’t been determined because the cheque hasn’t yet arrived from Google, YouTube’s owner.
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Baby-snatching eagle video was class project
Fake clip viewed more than 17,000,000 times
From "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid" on YouTube
Relax, world — your baby won’t get snatched by an eagle if you visit Montreal.
An online video of the massive bird plucking an infant off the ground was acknowledged by its creators as a fake Wednesday.
The admission came as the video was viewed millions of times on YouTube in the span of several hours and was the subject of news reports by dozens of media around the globe.
It was actually produced by students as a class project at a new-media training institute in Montreal.
Their assignment: create a viral video and a hoax.
They needn’t worry about their mark now. They were promised a 100 per cent score if they received 100,000 page views — and within a few hours, sometime after lunch Wednesday, they had smashed that target 50 times over.
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