Back in December, a 55-second video clip that featured plenty of trees, spindly, spooky appendages, and one particularly grisly live birth, surfaced. Then, in early January, a second clip, loaded with images of a mud-smeared woman licking a tree and some strangely sexualized sap. Finally, on Sunday, a third, this one a slo-mo underwater dream sequence, surfaced onto the internet.
It became an ongoing saga of "Iamamiwhoami," the latest in a series of maddeningly compelling viral campaigns to seize the attention of Internet obsessives. Named for the YouTube user who began uploading the clips, the campaign has slowly become a full-blown frenzy!
Many people have named Lady GaGa, Goldfrapp and many more names into the ring. But through it all, one name kept popping up with regularity, Christina Aguilera.
With the release of ‘Bionic’ on its way and Aguilera known to adopt an alter-ego or two the repeated use of fetal imagery in the videos does remind us that her claims that the birth of her son Max was an inspiration for the record.
But according to MTV, Aguilera's publicist, “Iamamiwhoami” is “100 percent not [Christina] ...not sure why people think it is.”
But then who else could it be?