Willem Dafoe pronunciation video explains his name change in funny way

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's three-thirty Eastern, this is #Trending, and the number two video on YouTube in the U.S. right now is a guy explaining how to pronounce Willem Dafoe.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFourteen million people watched a lesson on how to say a name?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFourteen million sixty-eight thousand eight hundred seventy-two, and the video says Dafoe changed how he says his own last name.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentConan O'Brien thought it was funny enough to dig up old footage of a young Dafoe saying it the other way.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe man changed his own name and the internet is the one who got the memo late.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBro, that's the whole comment section.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWe haven't actually played the video, so we're just going off the title, channel name, and how many people watched it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThen I will confess I have said it the old way on this desk for years. Say it slowly for me, one more time.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHashtag Dafoe.