By pushing a Coke Zero can with the face of "Star Wars" character Chewbacca on it, YouTube user Johannes Hansen has created a groan that has become viral.
Hansen posted the video, titled "Cokebacca," on the popular videosharing site on Nov. 25, and since then, it has more than 650,000 views.
He explains how he noticed the sound emanating from the can's movement, saying, "Fooling around at the office yesterday my colleague Soren noticed this funny sound from the can ... Thank god for unintentional Star Wars sound," quotes CNET. Hansen thinks the sound is "an amusing distraction" as fans of the franchise waits for the opening in mid-December of "Star Wars: The Force Awaken."
Because the video has become viral, Hansen says he asked Flock Video, a viral-video licensing firm, to manage the eight-second clip so he could donate money it generates from advertising to charity.
Hansen's video has outpaced sound created by the Chewbacca toilet paper dispenser posted by ArtZeroTV on Sept. 28, which has more than 630,000 hits.
Meanwhile, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas admits that he has not even seen the trailer of the forthcoming movie. He sold the franchise to Disney in 2012. The reason he has not seen even the trailer is that Lucas has avoided the internet since 2000.
He compares his not going online and checking out the creation of the seventh movie on "Star Wars" to a divorce. "There is no such thing as working over someone's shoulder. You're either the dictator or you're not. And to do that would never work, so I said "I'm going to get divorced ... I knew that I couldn't be involved. All I'd do is make them miserable," The New York Daily news quotes Lucas.