Michael Phelps animation with dolphins, gold medals, surfing & Subway Sandwiches.
Taiwanese media are a litte upset NBC won’t share footage of Michael Phelps’ 4×200 free relay gold, his 19th, making him the greatest Olympian of all-time. Anger has apparently built to the point that Next Media Animation (the Taiwan branch) produced the video above.
While there’s subtitles, I still don’t fully understand the narrative. Do the Taiwanese think Phelps is “very attractive,” or is the animated Subway-Sandwich-head an indication they think he’s not? Clearly, they see him as dophlin-like, because of his aquatic skills, they point out he’s a “white male,” and they obviously see NBC as greedy.
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Is this what all Taiwanese TV is like because it reminds me of the time I did DMT
whoa….that helps me understand….sort of.
It’s always like this. See the report about TSA security:
The sandwich-head I think means that he’s very attractive except for his face.
The screen-cap on the video looks to be him jamming a turn.