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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Go cure cancer. Go to Mars.

Go make a YouTube video about your school's favorite phrases.

Go Gators.

Cameron "Scooter" Magruder posted his video "Stuff Gator Fans Say" to YouTube at about noon on Sunday. It already has more than 30,000 views.

In the video's 3 minutes and 3 seconds, 23-year-old Magruder parodies UF's "Go Gators" commercial, takes some jabs at Florida State University, shouts at football referees and Tebows on Turlington Plaza.

The video follows the "s**t people say" trend of YouTube videos that feature stereotypical sayings of groups such as girlfriends, freshmen and parents.

Magruder said he made the video to get more subscribers to his YouTube channel and to attract a wider audience. He saw an opportunity when he noticed no one had made a video about things Gator fans say, he said.

He graduated from UF in Spring 2011 with a degree in telecommunication productions and started making videos in October 2011.

Magruder's video does not have any swearing, unlike other "s**t people say" videos. He believes someone can be funny without being vulgar, and he said clean language also allows anyone to watch without being offended.

His sister, 24-year-old Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering Jeremy Magruder, appeared in the video and helped with the camera work.

"One of the highlights of his videos, I think, is that they're clean comedy, and that's something a lot of people can't do, you know," she said.

Scooter Magruder said he's gotten only positive reactions from people about the video.

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Eighteen-year-old Lauren Salter, a pre-nursing freshman, laughed at the video on her laptop. She said she thinks the sayings in the video are accurate and that Gators fans do say them.

Scooter said he learned video fundamentals in his classes at UF. He shot his first video, "The Chronicles of Sledd 350," in Sledd Hall, where he lived at the time.

Since then, he has done videos such as "Why People Hate Tim Tebow" and "How to React to a Bad Gift."

Magruder estimated he gained about 200 subscribers as of press time from the new video. The "Stuff Gator Fans Say" video currently had about 400 "likes" and about 40 "dislikes."

"All the people who dislike it go to Florida State," he said.

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