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  1. cat getting married
  2. NineteenPercent rants about burritos

    The best bitchfest ever about the worst burrito ever

    Last summer, a guy known as Luckyshirt got a burrito with all the fillings put in the wrong way:

    Jesus. So he wrote an elegant tirade at the poor fool who had fucked it up. A sample:

    Have you ever eaten one of the things you make all fucking day? You should try one. They are pretty good WHEN YOU ARE NOT WILLING YOURSELF THROUGH THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM ONLY TO END UP IN LETTUCE COUNTRY.

    Luckyshirt’s righteous anger got him over 60,000 notes on Tumblr, a rarified level of glory for anyone but teens making amiable life observations.

    And then this weekend, the vlogger NineteenPercent did a dramatic reading of that rant as part of her “Tiny Tirade” series. She nailed the timing and made her own interpretive decisions, rather than simply reciting the text with the exact implied tones and tempo. What I’m saying is that this is art.

    Watch the best performance of the best reaction to the worst Chipotle purchase. »

  3. Nicole Westbrook from 'It's Thanksgiving' hates you

    69,013 people don’t know the true meaning of Thanksgiving

    Did you already listen to Nicole Westbrook’s terrible song “It’s Thanksgiving”? It’s at 3.8 million views right now, still rising fast, I’m guessing maybe 20-50 million once we’ve all played it at our Christmas parties.

    “It’s Thanksgiving” sounds a lot like Rebecca Black’s “Friday” — both were written and produced by Patrice Wilson — or “Hot Problems”. And so far it seems to be playing out just like those songs. Fame, backlash, obvious jokes about how terrible it is. And dislikes.

    Let me tell you. If you “dislike” this video on YouTube, you are boring and bad. Just like specifically hating Nickelback is for sheeple with no actually interesting tastes, disliking an obviously silly amateur video by some dude and a child is for people who have only seen the blandest of YouTube, who completely miss out on gold like a libertarian’s anti-public-park poem and Sherlock Holmes making out with the Little Mermaid and must split the differences between the mediocre shit they like and the mediocre shit they hate.

    If you “disliked” that video, you are Nickelback. You are Uggs. You are Jim Belushi. And your parody of it will suck.

    Watch the video. Give it a thumbs-up. Congratulate yourself on being so brave. »

  4. Gustavo Almodovar

    Gustavo Almadovar excels at saying his name

    Gustavo Almadovar works for Eyewitness News in Orange County. When he signs himself off, it’s a chant, like he’s summoning his own spirit. Particularly when some newswatcher cuts together all his signoffs into a lilting montage.

    Watch the supercut of one beautiful name. »

  5. sneezing woman

    The Human Condition

    The creator of this megamix of body-complaint commercials tags it with: “You start to feel better, before you die.”

    Watch the thousand shocks the flesh is heir to. »

  6. wizard drinking potions

    What wizards do when they overdose on potions

    I love watching motion-graphics videos, but I always wonder why these techniques aren’t used more often in stories. This is the kind of concept you can see someone pitching and everyone in the room immediately going “Ohhh shit!”

    Watch wizards OD. »

  7. lady names President Grover Cleveland

    Your guide to all the presidents who matter

    This woman names all the presidents ever and doesn’t miss any of them at all.

    Watch her do it. »

  8. Laura Grey and Jordan Klepper on a couch

    Every relationship is like this couch.

    ‘The Couch’ is a one-minute sketch by Klepper and Grey, whom we like.

    Watch ‘The Couch’. »

  9. Lil Ant sings Call Me Bill Gates

    Lil Ant’s “Bill Gates” is a good very-bad rap song, if you like very-bad rap songs.

    Cole Stryker, lover of bad things, showed me this minimum-effort rap video for the minimum-effort song “Bill Gates” by Lil Ant.

    Or maybe it’s a decent joke by an actually-good rapper, or maybe it’s a reverse-ironic viral placement that will get him on Ellen. I don’t know these things now.

    Watch this shitty video, if that’s your thing. »

  10. unfunny dad intervention

    Intervention: Unfunny Dad

    It can be super-hard to make a joke about an unfunny character be funny. It can also be super-hard to make an addiction joke funny. But this sketch by Harvard Sailing Team is funny. This dad represents not only all unfunny dads, but all unfunny semi-manic friends.

    Watch a family confront their unfunny dad. »

  11. PET-PROTO robot

    Humanoid robot PET-PROTO’s thought process

    Oh god. Oh god they built another test.

    Okay. It’s a step. I can do steps. But oh god look how fucking big it is, what if I fucking fall, I can’t take that again, I’ve fallen so many times and when I do they go into me and they change me oh god oh god WHEW I’M ON THE STEP. YES. FUCK. YES oh fuck fuck hold on okay walls, good, got walls.

    Now just eeaaase on down and… OUCH okay I think I’m okay let’s just hold onto the walls for a bit, whew, okay, doin’ great.

    Oh dear lord there’s a hole in the ground, fuck. »

  12. preacher casts out gay demon

    So that’s what a gay demon sounds like

    This is a man casting a gay sex demon out of another man. I mean not really, mostly because as everyone has pointed out, no gay demon would show up to church in that vest.

    Of course it’s super-upsetting to see someone convinced that their sexuality is caused by a demon, so convinced that they find themselves pretending to be the demon. So let’s keep trying to not do that! And meanwhile laugh at the asshole preachers who pretend to cast out demons.

    Watch an exorcism that prooobably didn’t hold up. »

  13. glenn-beck-jeans-title

    Glenn Beck is selling USA-made patriot jeans because of course he is (also, America)

    Remember when Glenn Beck had a TV show? He was crying all the time, and telling old people to put gold in mattresses, and just being a big ol’ right-wing goofball. Golly, I wonder what that fear monger’s been up to lately!

    I mean, he’s still on the radio, right? I can only assume. Scared people LOVE the radio. And then beyond that, what could he be doing? Writing fan fiction about American presidents? Crying into flags? Participating in a lot of hot dog eating contests? Isn’t that how you’d imagine rich fat guys to spend their time? Kickin’ back with hot dogs?

    Turns out, his next project is none of those things.

    Glenn Beck is now selling the most American jeans that have ever existed. »

  14. kill the calories

    Vitalic’s “Stamina”: A music video about murderous exercise

    The story in this NSFW music video is so compelling that it’s honorarily comedy.

    Watch Vitalic’s ‘Stamina’. »

  15. hot Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon characters

    “Guptill89 Presents Top Ten Hottest Female Sonic Character’s”

    “She’s attractive and is the size of an average human mother.” A young man reviews sexually attractive female Sonic characters in a surprisingly compelling YouTube video.

    I argued with Cole Stryker (who found this video on, like, Reddit) about whether kids have always so constantly appropriated terms like “since Valentine’s Day is around the corner…” and “Now we’re talkin’!” from bullshit pop culture until they sound like little Entertainment Weekly writers. I would like to believe that our childhoods were somewhat purer before internet-aided media saturation; he says our generation was just as terribly referential. WAT IS UR OPINION TELL US IN COMMENTZ

    Watch the top-ten list of hot females from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. »

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