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Video: Best comeback ever? The creator of Bebo has got something very important to tell you...

Date
9 August 2013

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Can we please give a round of applause for Michael Birch who, after years of having the piss taken out of his early social networking site and puberty wagon Bebo, is back with maybe the best comeback video we’ve ever seen. The fact that the actual founder is narrating the video in person is so old school and perfect and the fact that they’ve taken something so genuinely hilarious – and possibly the only positive thing that Bebo harvested – and used it to make them appear cool again is so perfect it gives me goosebumps. Unfortunately it’s so good that after watching this you may find yourself immediately signing back up to Bebo, back on the puberty wagon. But don’t worry, I’ve saved you a space next to me and it’s going to be a sweet, sweet ride.

Michael Birch sits in a chair in front of a shelving unit filled with bottles and ornaments. Captions at the bottom read, “Hi, I’m Michael Birch. In 2005, my wife and I launched Bebo, the social networking site”.
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Bebo Founder: “It’s time to come clean.”

A simple line drawing of a penis with wings. A black caption bar at the bottom reads “Over the past 7 years, nearly 1 million of these pictures have been drawn across the”.
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Bebo Founder: “It’s time to come clean.”

A simple illustration of a black stick figure pulling a red, phallic shape on a leash. A caption below reads, “I’m not going to take the moral high ground, I can’t, I drew a couple myself.”
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Bebo Founder: “It’s time to come clean.”

A person with long hair and glasses sits in a wicker chair, wearing a blazer over a black T-shirt. They hold a white cup in a room with a bookshelf and a pot of yellow orchids. A caption at the bottom reads “Bebo, old and new, can be found at Bebo.com.”
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Bebo Founder: “It’s time to come clean.”

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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