David F. Sandberg

David F. Sandberg Instagram – HAPPY 10 YEAR LIGHTS OUT WENT VIRAL-VERSARY!!
10 years since the internet took our little 2 minute and 40 second short and ran with it across the globe, and changed our lives completely within the space of a weekend. It’s the most magical thing that’s ever happened to us and I don’t think it’s possible to explain just how grateful we are.
Here are some screenshots from my blog, Facebook and Twitter of those incredibly exciting and overwhelming days after Lights Out went viral, including the Facebook post when one of the largest Swedish newspapers emailed David IN ENGLISH to ask if they could have an interview and David replied “I hope it’s okay that I reply in Swedish.” They had no idea we were from Sweden. Our short had become a phenomenon. And that time the writers on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight show emailed to say they were fans. And how I became a meme when someone put sunglasses on my monster face.
It was a highly intense period, overwhelming in mostly great ways, but I remember the feeling of quickly having to learn what it is to be a woman seen by millions of people on the internet and having random men commenting on my body and looks. Those days and weeks and months that followed of not knowing what it would all lead to, if anything, was exhilarating and exhausting and I am so incredibly happy with how it did unfold. Proud too. Of our little Lights Out.
What a crazy ride it’s been, and continues to be! | Posted on 15/Mar/2024 01:18:36