This link was one of the first sites to put the video up around April 24th.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/elian/index.html [see statement of this site below]
The video was being voted on for its humor content as a parody/satire to the elian raid. Photos used in the video were shot by Alan Diaz of The ASSOCIATED PRESS.
It might be worthy to go read the AP's Mission statement because they suck so hard and helped to blow the Elian issue way out of proportion by slamming it down our throats, along with cnn.com, abc, nbc, foxnews, blahblahblah-c etc.

Here is what they had to say over at NewGrounds 27, April 2000.

Free the Elian Wassup Video

It was an act of courage - our valiant AP photographer had to storm the house, with nothing more than a small army of men with guns to protect him. The subject of his picture was very elusive indeed - a sleeping boy. Surely it took the reflexes of a cat to snap such a picturei This AP photographer will surely win a pulitzer for his truly honorable efforts to capture a small boy with a gun aimed at his head.

It's a shame he has to be such a dick about it.

April 27, 2000 - Sean Bonner created the "Elian Wassup" video - an innocent and completely hilarious Flash animation. It was submitted to the NG Portal, and quickly became one of the top pics. It wasn't much longer before the AP released the hounds - Sean had to shut down his Geocities site early this morning. Tonight, I have shut down the movie on Newgrounds. It will be missed... and let it be said that the AP sucks ass.

Read the legal threat we received.
Read some of the support letters from fans
Read this NG exclusive article on the subject.
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My only question is this - did our brave photographer get model releases signed by all parties involved? As public figures in a "newsworthy" item, these images are free for parody by fair use law. The sad part is, I don't have enough money to prove that in court. First the BBC, now the AP... What is it with acronyms and Newgrounds? Hey, this is NG. Can't we all just get along?