Craigslist has always held a certain fascination for the average Internet lurker — see LivingCraigslist, Illustrated Missed Connections, I Saw You… — so it was really a matter of time before the site got its own documentary series. Well, friends, that time is nigh.
Craigslist TV is a new series from the famed goods-trading/apartment-renting/love and sex-locating website. Each Tuesday, a new episode hits the site’s YouTube channel, each featuring a real-life Craigslist user. Stories range from Missed Connections found to a dude advertising himself as a “Ninja for Hire.”
So how does one make the cut when it comes to appearing on the webseries? Well, Craigslist now has an opt-in button on it’s Los Angeles site (sorry everyone else in the world) that users can select if they think their posting should be followed. According to producer Drew Brown, this opt-in button generates 1,000 posts per day, which the production team must then sort through.
The first season will have 14 episodes, and Brown says the project will soon expand nationwide, so we’re pretty interested to see what kinds of stories come out of the series. Right now, the episodes featured on the page are just as uncomfortably entertaining as one would expect, especially the on-going saga of Michael Mullen, who desperately wants to show Sandra Bullock a dress he designed for her. We’ve embedded two vids below, one featuring the aforementioned ninja, and the other a painfully awkward encounter between a Missed Connection and a poster.
What do you think of Craigslist TV? Why is CL such a fertile ground for inspiration? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Tags: craigslist, humor, pop culture, web video, youtube