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Juan Mann & Jason Hunter
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Confusion between Juan Mann and Jason Hunter
An example of the confusion between Juan and Jason's projects or "campaigns"
My thoughts (a suggestion for journalists)
Confusion between Juan Mann and Jason Hunter
Juan Mann is the guy in Australia who became famous on YouTube when the band Silly Puppies created a music video. Juan is just giving away free hugs, nothing else, as far as I know.
Jason Hunter is an American who has a for profit company in Atlanata which is called Free Hugs LLC. To the best of my knowledge these are totally separate things. Jason started his company before the Juan Mann/Silly Puppies video was created.
Some people are confusing these two people and their projects.
Here is the website for Jason Hunter's company.
One person wrote that Juan got the idea from Jason. But I haven't been able to verify this. I have left her a note on her blog to ask her to contact me. If anyone knows anything about this, please write me at freehugsvideos@yahoo.com
Steve - Nov 1, 2006
See the next item - Where did Juan get the idea or inspiration to make a sign and start giving out free hugs??
Here is something I found:
Hey Jana!!! Thank you so much for the kind words. I am going to post part of
your email on our "Hugstories" page. I would love to work with you on
planning a Free Hugs day there. That's one of the many things that we do.
And it shouldn't be that hard to work on it, since we are only one state over
from you. Also, thank you so much for writing about us in "Hartsville Today."
You ROCK!!!
We are not connected with Juann Mann, but he did email me once a long
time ago and said that he was going to do what he's doing. So in a way "yeah,"
because we did inspire him to do it. Well, I look forward to hearing from you
and I am so excited about possibly working with you. If you don't mind, please
send us a copy of the article that you will be writing.
Have a awesome rest of the day!!!
Your Friend,
Jason G. Hunter Founder/President Free Hugs LLC
An example of the confusion between Juan and Jason's projects
The article below is confusing the Juan Mann/Sick Puppies YouTube Campaign with the company in Atlanta when it says this..
The campaign for Free Hugs has become popular on several user-generated sites to become the most watched videos currently on the web.
http://thedailyreel.com/news-opinion/blogs/the-daily-feed/archive/2006/10/02/free-hugs-campaign
I suggest we refer to the Juan Mann/Sick Puppies/YouTube story as the "campaign" because this is what has really spread around the world. I am not sure of Jason would like to be thought of as part of the Juan Mann campaign or not, but that seems to make more sense to me at this point. Maybe I will write him. Or if he reads this he is welcome to write to me!