Tag: viral
Comedian Paul Gale’s “Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong” video got five million hits in less than three days after being posted on Monday. Everybody loves it. Look, that’s a BuzzFeed gif. Wow. And then it was taken down from YouTube for the cover of a Conway Twitty song. Aw, shit. But it’s embedded below via Facebook. Yey. Based […]
Everyone is doing the #IceBucketChallenge, from Tom Cruise (who got 7.5 ice buckets poured on his head, like a Tom Cruise would) to Bulgarian politician and alleged wiretapper and embezzler Tsvetan Genchev Tsvetanov. Though the viral campaign was launched to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, it took some pretty creative tangents, specifically the #RubbleBucketChallenge from Gaza (because water is a little too precious to waste when you’re […]