this is our year. from Joe M on Vimeo.
Call us “bah humbugs,” but this video from a gay British couple merely made the cockles of our heart lukewarm, at least upon first viewing. But when the video mysteriously disappeared from the Internet last night, we realized how much we missed it and sent Mr. Joe M a note asking why he’d made the video private.
“Just come in from a day out, to find all this attention around the internet – all lovely and really nice things but I didn’t realise I had made the video public, I had intended it to be private! Oops!” Joe M told us. But by next morning, the video was public again, perhaps because copies from determined fans started popping up on Youtube.
Here’s Joe’s explanation of the video:
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The Story Behind This Video: Will & I have been together for coming up to two years. Last year for Christmas I bought him a diary and wrote memorable dates in it, like the date of our first date etc. That kind of corny stuff! This year, I wanted to make a video, so made this video for him and called it “this is our year.” (not because it’s a montage of clips from the past year, but more so because it’s OUR first proper full year together). I uploaded it to Vimeo a few days ago, but it was never my intention for it to go public – and as a novice Vimeo user, I didn’t quite get the privacy settings correct(!).
Cutest accidentally viral couple ever!
JoeyBoots
i love them! 🙂 xoxo
Mike UK
wise choice guys filming your video in Manchester! 🙂
Shungaboy
That is sooo sweet. Thanks for sharing this!
x
i’m too cynical for this. watching cute couples be happy makes me want to pee.
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GayJapan
Why are the cutest couples always white guys? Black? Brown? Asian? Latino? Middle-Eastern? It’s so 20th century.
GayJapan
I mean – nothing wrong with this couple. They’re cute as hell, but I don’t like the caption. You should praise diversity among the LGBT community, too.
Rich
@ GayJapan, although some Etonians would have you believe otherwise, British is not a race,m it’s a nationality. It wouldn’t matter if they were Black, White, or Asian – they would still be British.
That said, why does everything have to be racial? They are the cutest BRITISH couple I’ve seen all year. So instead of looking for discrimination where there is none, STFU and enjoy the video. Maybe if you learn to be less bitter you too can find happiness.
Andy
These guys are really adorable. You can see the love in their eyes. I wish them much happiness!
geoff
@Rich: I detected no bitterness/discrimination in Japan’s comment. Maybe if you were less of a bitch you could have offered to help GayJapan find a video of a cute non-(British)-white couple – for Christmas!
sam
@GayJapan: Jesus Christ I hate ridiculous comments like that. There’s nothing wrong with having a white-white couple! Yes there is diversity, but what’s so shocking about two white guys together, when, especially in the UK, whites are simply more common?
Grr -_- Every little thing in life doesn’t have to show diversity simply for the sake of it,e specially other people’s romance -_-
Mike UK
@geoff: Rich wasn’t being a bitch he was simply pointing out that being British isn’t a race, here in the UK we are either English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish (Northern Ireland), combined we are all British regardless of race, creed or colour.
geoff
@Mike UK: Read the whole comment, “Shut the Fuck up” is not only bitchy it’s unnecessary.
Isaac C
@GayJapan: Why exactly should diversity be praised? The vast majority of people date and marry within their own race, so if anything the selection of this couple is in line with the real world.
Rich
@geoff, It’s not my job to be cruise director for anyone. If you’re not finding what you’re looking for, keep looking til you do.
And STFU wasn’t meant to be bitchy, but it was completely necessary. Why do we, as gay men (forgive me, gentle reader, if you do not identify with that homo-variant), always have to tear shit down. Why can’t we just watch a really sweet video with a really sweet back-story and go “ahhhh”. You don’t have to identify with the couple’s race, which is completely and totally irrelevant. Racial diversity, or lack there of, doesn’t make the story any more, or less, sweet.
Now get off your high horse.
Chadboy
It needs to be subtitled and the music softened. Can’t understand anything that is being said. Their actions are cute and it is cute that they made this video, but physically only one is cute.
geoff
@Rich: No STFU wasn’t completely necessary or even a little necessary. It rancorous and vitriolic. Japan’s comments and mine were neither – perhaps you, un-gentle reader, should endeavor for a more civil way of communicating.
geoff
was, there should be a was in there – or perhaps “they were”. ooops
Rich
@geoff, Hey Jeff, can you breathe up there? Civil you say? I’m not the one throwing ‘bitch’ around. Although if I was, you’d be the one I’d toss.
Joel
I agree with Rich.
Aiden
@Isaac C: So diversity shouldn’t be praised?
geoff
@Rich: Touche (accent aigu over the e) Yes, the air up here is pretty rarefied, but even so, we know how to spell the name my parents put on my birth certificate.
Rich
@geoff: Really Jeffy? You’re still coming at me when our buddy @Chadboy turned the whole thing into a ‘Hot or Not’ review?
Your pretentiousness, and your slip, are showing. Diacritics implied.
geoff
@Rich: None of your incoherent blather made much sense – what has Chadboy got to do with it? GayJapan got us into this. Forgive me, I don’t know how to type the aigu – and I’ll forgive your pettiness – Jeffy?
Rich
@geoff: OK, Jeffy. If you click the link you might get it. I was thinking you were a lovable 1, but now I’ve got to go with a 6.
Goodnight sunshine, its been fun.
Isaac C
@Aiden: It’s not real diversity if it’s forced.
barca
Gawd,, if you are so worried about there being a lack of diversity in this video then make your own dang video!!!
geoff
@Rich: xoxo
kawneekwa
I agree y’all need to make your own video if you don like dis one.
Mike UK
it wouldn’t matter if these guys were red and blue with yellow spots, someone somewhere would have a problem with them! get a grip and see the video for what it is!
Pete n SFO
Lovely boys. I found myself smiling all the way through.
I especially loved the whispers amid gentle kisses near the end. Absolutely lovely.
Franco
This is very sweet but if my boyfriend filmed me that much I would kill him. ENOUGH WITH THE CAMERA I would tell him.
Tom
@GayJapan: You seem pretty racist yourself. This couple doesn’t need to apologize to you for being white. And has been pointed out, they would be British regardless of color or race. Apparently, you think that only white people are British. Work on your racism.
Top to Bottom
I cannot believe a video of a beautiful couple transformed into an argument about racism. Can’t you guys let someone be happy for five seconds?
Aiden
@Isaac C: What does forced diversity look like? Honest question.
Robert in NYC
Absolutely beautiful and oh so cute, definitely heartwarming.
Ken
What’s also wonderful about this video is to know the back story. Joe (the taller, dark haired one) made this little video with the intention that only Will would view it, but neglected to set the privacy setting right on vimeo. When he started getting comments in his email about it he checked vimeo to find it had been viewed 20,000 times and both he and Will were shocked and panicked, made the vimeo video private for a while as they discussed what to do, then decided to make it public again because the comments had been so lovely. So what you are seeing is one boyfriend’s love video to the other. It wasn’t made with us in mind at all, which is what makes it so pure (and makes the racism charge look oh-so-ridiculous).
Rich
@Ken, EXACTLY!!
Javier
Can anyone else not understand what they’re saying?