A YouTube videomaker who doesn't care for the grittier realities of life in the Valley has made a couple of "tourism" videos on Canoga Park — where even the high school mascot has a gun, he points out — including the one above. There's also a hit piece on Van Nuys in the same light ditty-masking-anger style, and a new entry on Las Vegas. The original Canoga Park tourism video has 80,000 views and a ton of comments, many of them where the racism is barely veiled. Also in the genre, from a different source, a commercial for Reseda.
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