The iconic viral clip of two young brothers was filmed and uploaded by their dad at their home in Buckinghamshire, earning the family around £1 million and reaching almost 850 million hits on YouTube.
The iconic viral clip of two young brothers was filmed and uploaded by their dad at their home in Buckinghamshire, earning the family around £1 million and reaching almost 850 million hits on YouTube.
They live in the same house, with the same sofa that featured in the famous clip – and the boys’ dad still works full-time as an IT consultant.
The original video was uploaded to YouTube back in 2007 and was never actually intended to go public.
Dad, Howard Davies-Carr, 48, told Metro:
"Charlie once came home and said, ‘Is it true you can buy me a Ferrari? It was only meant for family members… In 2007, sharing video files – about 50 megabytes – was hard.
It was too big for email, so YouTube stood out as a great vehicle to share videos.
After people had seen it, I didn’t see any point it being on there any longer.
But when I went back to delete it, it was then I realised the video had a lot of views – almost doubling every day, so we decided to embrace it."
Yeah, I know – I feel pretty old too.