Posts Published December 2011

Demon Santa: A Post-Christmas Advice Meme

I didn’t want to ruin Christmas for you, so I saved this until a time when it’s okay to imagine Santa as a hellspawn.

See more of the Claus from beyond the grave. »
- - 2011/12/27 at 10:57 am
  - by Christopher Lindstrom
- - 312 views
  - No comments
- Filed under:Meme Forcer
Christmas Songs, In Order of Depressingness

Please stop playing this music. It hurts me. It hurts me… so much.

First: The Charlie Brown Christmas songs. »
- - 2011/12/24 at 1:04 pm
  - by Oliver Miller
- - 1094 views
  - 3 comments
- Filed under:Lists
Dumb Running Sonic

Dumb Running Sonic is a blog full of people’s retarded animations of Sonic the Hedgehog running (including the above Fat Sonic).

This single-topic blog seems to be slowly spreading. Despite over 260 entries and a shoutout from Sega’s Twitter account, it only hit 3,000 followers yesterday, but it’ll obviously be huge by next month.
- - 2011/12/23 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 2165 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Blogs
Scumbag Santa, Your Christmas Advice Meme

‘Tis the season to be bitter. Scumbag Santa is an advice animal meme that reveals Santa Claus for the asshole he is.

The meme was first posted 3 months ago on Reddit, where Christmas (among other things) comes early:

After poring over pages of this meme, I learned something about you guys. You are still angry at Santa for making out with your mom and eating your cookies, you never got that really cool present you asked for, you think Santa is too judgmental and is engaged in class warfare, and you think jokes about Santa’s sack are hilarious.

Here are the top Quickmeme Scumbag Santas, followed by seven of my own.

See the truth about the world’s most successful creeper. »
- - 2011/12/22 at 2:00 pm
  - by Nate Smith
- - 8198 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Memes
No Wait, This Is Everything: Happy Holidays From This Fruitcake

Dave Seger knows that covering people with slimy foodstuffs is a reliable crowd-pleaser.

Watch this fruitcake. »
- - 2011/12/22 at 1:00 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 432 views
  - 2 comments
- Filed under:This Is Everything
Uncastable: Mike Lacher

Slacktory loves Uncastable, the web series of nightmare auditions, so much that we’re publishing two episodes ourselves.

Last time, Nick Douglas rang in the season for savings. Today, Uncastable co-creator Mike Lacher goes digital.

Watch his audition, unless you’re the kind of person who says ‘Curbed is too awkward for me.’ »
- - 2011/12/22 at 12:24 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 453 views
  - 3 comments
- Filed under:Web Shows
This Is Everything: Going to the Store With a Real Person

It’s a guy re-enacting the famous video of the mannequin flailing around L.A.

Doop doopee doop, doopee doopee BOOP boop! »
- - 2011/12/22 at 12:06 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 311 views
  - 4 comments
- Filed under:This Is Everything
The Best Ryan Gosling Memes From Gosblr, the Ryan Gosling Tumblr Tumblr

Ryan Gosling blogs mostly follow the format of the original, three-year-old Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling: “Hey girl, blah blah blah.” There are so many of them that there’s a blog just dedicated to finding and cataloging them, run by the Daily Dot.

The first spinoff, Feminist Ryan Gosling, came out this October.

And now there’s… »
- - 2011/12/22 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 15275 views
  - 7 comments
- Filed under:Memes
What Videogum’s 2011 Viral Montage Reveals About Our Big, Sophisticated Internet Memes

The Best Viral Videos Of 2011: A Retrospective | Videogum

It’s over 4 minutes and it still feels cramped and skimpy (but excellent!). It leaves out Ted Williams the golden-voiced hobo, Asians in the Library, Jim Carrey’s creepy message to Emma Stone, Benton, and probably a million people misbehaving on trains. And yet it catches dozens of things that other year-in-virals montages missed. That’s how huge our weird little internet has gotten.

Earlier this year I asked Greg Rutter if he’d ever make a third ‘You Should Have Seen This’ list. »
- - 2011/12/21 at 12:16 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 371 views
  - 4 comments
- Filed under:Videos
Startup or Pokemon?

Every time you play, you get a different random set of 10 startups or Pokemon. I got 8/10, 5/10 and 8/10.

Go play Startup or Pokemon? by Evil Brain Jono.

Facebook office photo by Acid Cow
- - 2011/12/21 at 9:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 171 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Data Points
Scumbag Steve’s Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl

This is really, truly, actually Blake Boston, the guy from Scumbag Steve. After many emails, I met him in person at a Slacktory-sponsored Halloween party this year. I asked him to write a letter of advice to Jess, the girl who may have just discovered she’s Annoying Facebook Girl. I lightly edited it for grammar at his request.

Blake is wonderfully introspective about the emotions of this specifically modern situation. He’s… he’s an actual advice meme.

Dear Annoying Facebook Girl, it’s me Blake. You may know me as Scumbag Steve. Or not, if you’re not on the internet much.

I heard you just found out that your pics been all over the internet. Shocking huh? Google yourself, but have a friend with you for support.

Steve’s advice: Make your peace with this, because it’s not going away. »
- - 2011/12/21 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 252376 views
  - 35 comments
- Filed under:Open Letter
Allthis vs. AllthisPR: A Case Study in Trolling Stupid Companies

Allthis is a startup where people buy ten-minute online chats with each other. It could maybe be a cool idea. But their list of potential chattees included a lot of well-known professionals who’d never heard of Allthis.

One of those professionals wrote a loud blog post about getting herself off the list, embarrassing Allthis into taking down all the unauthorized profiles. That included the BoingBoing writers, who are known to be (rightfully) prickly about this sort of business bullshit. So that bit them in the ass too.

But the real fun started when the fake Twitter account popped up. »
- - 2011/12/20 at 6:35 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 1971 views
  - 2 comments
- Filed under:Screwing With People
Webcomic Webcomic: No More Cheap Gimmicks

We found Justin Hall through his hand-drawn rage comics on Reddit. Now he’s drawing webcomics about webcomics for Slacktory.

Just some plain old storytelling this week.

Read this week’s comic. »
- - 2011/12/20 at 12:09 pm
  - by Justin Hall
- - 736 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Comics
Bozarking: The Doctor Who of Reddit Commenters

One of Reddit’s most famous users is Bozarking, who wrote comments with elaborate sexual fantasies, often in innocent threads, that then attracted massive upvotes. His term “nonsexual and silly“, used in one of his many incest-themed stories, became a Reddit shibboleth. It also describes Bozarking’s style: presenting scenes where taboo, arousal and mundane joys and intimacies are inextricable.

After a few months, Bozarking deleted all his comments (some were saved and reused by the user bozarking_saver) and he disappeared early this year.

Except a Bozarking homage pops up every few months — with such consistency that it’s pretty easy to believe Bozarking is just creating new accounts.

Read the Bozarking spinoffs. »
- - 2011/12/20 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 56761 views
  - 4 comments
- Filed under:Whatevs
Wow, Klout, That’s Really in Poor Taste
- - 2011/12/19 at 6:42 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 449 views
  - 2 comments
- Filed under:Stupid Pictures