Meet “rapper” Stanley Lafleur aka Mr. EBT. According to the Daily News, he made a funny video about the upside and shortcomings of using his Electronic Benefit Transfer card, but YouTube wasn’t laughing. Read more »
Summer’s ending and if you were wondering what to do with all of your leftover watermelon, YouTube star FPSRussia (from redneck Georgia) has the answer: shoot them with a 50 Cal machine gun. But first roll up to a McDonalds drive-through in a tank and order food.
Police in Manchester who were well past the point of showing restraint “beat alleged teenage rioters on bicycles try to flee,” according to the description on this YouTube video. Read more »
Copyright infringement now earns you a mandatory date with Happy Tree Friends. If this light instructional sets the standard on what YouTube wants us to think about Fair Use, then it’s really, really complicated, kids, so just don’t remix if you don’t have an attorney… It’s bad, m’kay? Read more »
Movie nerd! I know you are, but what am I? Here’s a new video from Exophrine. It has 150 movie catchphrases and will schwing! your brain until you simultaneously zombie out and have an ADD fit. Schwing! Rosebud.
Like gun control, supporting the legalization of weed or even the growing of hemp is tantamount to political kryptonite for our elected officials, so it’s kind of understandable why President Obama jokingly dismisses the issue whenever he’s asked about it, which is a shame, because producing cannabis and hemp is absolutely an industry that America could innovate, if given the chance. Read more »
Today, with the help of some e-thuggery by 50 Cent and the power of Twitter, the temporary shutdown of hood culture and music website, World Star Hip Hop, set the internet ablaze. Like a virus, rumors spread so fast that Hot97′s Angie Martinez invited 50 Cent and WSHH’s CEO, Q, to discuss what happened on the radio. Read more »
Padding fast food paychecks and swiping people through subway turnstiles so they don’t have to pay are just two of the subversive activities Americans are turning to as the economy fucks them over. We’re becoming a nation of Robin Hoods! Could be worse. Put on your green tunic and watch this report on altruism gone wild. Read more »
Here’s the newest nightmare from fractal-savy YouTube nauseator Cyriak — ’50s stock footage remixed into umbilical coils of scowls and howls. Do not enjoy. Read more »
Food Molestors and Momus’s Favorite YouTubes
Two shows at the Postmasters gallery have just opened. #1: Playlist (a response to Gug’s Play) unleashed the “archival richness” of the YouTubes, handpicked by a varied group artists, writers and musicians. Co-curator Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City tells me Momus picked this. Oh, Momus. #2: Eat Me is all about food lust, from Monica Cook’s painterly Monicas-on-Monicas-on-octopus orgy to Michael Meads’s literal fucking of food. “Playlist” and “Eat Me!,” Dec 9 – Dec 23, Postmasters, New York
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