Bizarre Riot Rule #1: Don’t Bring Chairs to A Table Fight … Yup [VIDEO]
Normally I try and bring you a little clarity to our video highlights, but this one, simply titled “BeastModeCity” on YouTube, doesn’t give me a lot to work with. I’ve watched it about a dozen times now, and it seems like it is not the “ghetto dodgeball” game that most of the racist [...]
Autism Speaks Premieres ‘I Want To Say’ Documentary on YouTube [VIDEO]
Autism Speaks, an advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness of disorders in the autism spectrum and funding research for possible treatments, is premiering its documentary “I Want To Say” for the first time on YouTube today. The documentary focuses on how technology is improving the lives of children who suffer from the developmental disorder. The [...]
Is PlayStation 4′s ‘Share’ Button A Threat To Game Commentary On YouTube?
Last week during a press conference in New York, Sony unveiled several features that would come preloaded with the Playstation 4. Among them, as the acquisition of cloud-based gaming service Gaikai alluded to, was a feature that allowed users to instantaneously share game footage by simply tapping the controller’s “Share” button. It may seem [...]
Badass Russian Bus Driver ‘The Punisher’ Rams Cars That Cut Him Off [VIDEO]
(/center> Like a highlight reel from “Jaws” (all that’s missing is the ominous music), this mad Russian bus driver deals beautiful “car”-ma (jesus, I told myself I wasn’t going to make this joke) to anybody who cuts him off. In what is unquestionably the best clip currently blistering this sweet web of ours, time and [...]
‘Tumblr’ Music Video from College Humor is Viral, Funny, Useful [VIDEO]
College Humor has stumbled across the magic formula for making viral videos: take one social media medium and just sing the hell out about its most cliche elements. The result is delightful. In this instance, Tumblr gets the lyrical deconstructing in this sort of show tunes ode to all things bullshit Tumblr accounts. [...]
The Onion Apologizes For Dropping ‘C-word’ in Oscar Tweet — Should They Have?
“On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It was crude and offensive — not to mention inconsistent with The Onion’s commitment to parody and satire, however biting.”And so begins [...]
Bear Grylls Stars In Latest Viral Air New Zealand Flight Safety Video
Count on Air New Zealand to make the boring flight safety video into a viral piece of work. Their recent flight safety videos featuring the cast of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and legendary fitness guru Richard Simmons have become sensations on YouTube, with their videos getting more than 10 million and 2 million [...]
Screen Team Gets Engaged Geeky Style in Catchy Music Video
YouTube proposals typically fall into two categories: “bold mushy romantic gestures” or “cruel pranks.” I feel like this one is the former. Angie Griffin and Chad Nikolaus, two YouTube creators who go by the handle “The Screen Team,” just announced their engagement to the world in the most YouTube way possible — they [...]
YouTuber Zack James Talks ‘Prank Tour’ & Its Message Against Network Malpractice
On face value “Prank Tour” is exactly what it sounds like. It’s madcap, it’s silly and crass. Sometimes it’s disgusting, and sometimes it’s anxiety-inducing in its brazen pranking. If you focus on the surface of this movie it will deliver exactly what its title promises — a national tour where hopeless strangers are fucked [...]
UK Singles Charts Snubs YouTube Views As Part Of Its Data
Last week, Baauer’s highly addictive “Harlem Shake” reached the number one spot on the Billboard charts in the United States thanks to Billboard’s policy change counting YouTube music hits. However, their counterparts in the United Kingdom are hesitant to count viral video hits on their charts. The Official Charts Company, which tracks singles sales in [...]
