Tag Archives: viral video

Aliens, Pot, Dragons, & Lasers: Candidate For Canadian Parliament Goes Viral With Wacky Campaign Ad

TIME Magazine reports: While Donald Trump dominates America’s GOP primary field, Canadians have discovered their own wild card candidate—Wyatt Scott—ahead of their federal election in October. The independent candidate promises to “fight for Canada” while the video shows him perched on a CGI Canadian goose and swinging a sword in the air. Scott—armed with the clever slogan, “think artisan politics, …

Read More »

VIRAL VIDEO: When Uber Meets Tinder

What this is about: In good news for all time-conscious technophiles, dating app Tinder and taxi app Uber have combined to create ‘UnDer’, “the ultimate auto-erotic experience”. The only problem is the super-app only exists in a parody video. In the three-minute fake commercial “Uber meets Tinder”, a female passenger waits by the side of a road as a prospective …

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

Spin recaps: One thousand musicians banded together in Italy to perform the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” all at once in an attempt to woo the band to come play a show for them. Let’s repeat that — 1,000 musicians. A thousand. “The Foo Fighters are not in Romagna since 1997, it’s time to get them back, but we need …

Read More »

Atlanta Church: Don’t Mistake Our Pastor’s Viral Rant As Supportive Of LGBT Rights

Last week JMG was the first to post a fiery sermon from an evangelical pastor that has since gone wildly viral. While many sites have interpreted the pastor’s message as supportive of the LGBT community, the House Of Hope Atlanta would like you to know that is definitely not the case. From their statement published by the Christian Post: That …

Read More »

Lesbian Couple Featured In Bank’s Viral Ad

3.7 million views in one week.

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

Via Mashable: It is the deepest show of respect. A large group of school children in New Zealand have honoured their beloved teacher by performing the traditional dance, the haka, as his hearse rolled into the school for the funeral. At least 1,700 boys at Palmerston North Boys’ High School on New Zealand’s North Island participated in the epic performance …

Read More »

BRITAIN: Straight Guy Asks 100 Random Men For Their Phone Number

He got a lot more numbers than when he tried the same experiment with women. Perhaps more surprisingly, nobody got very aggressive with him. (Via Towleroad)

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

At the KKK rally in South Carolina on Saturday, one counter-protester thoughtfully provided musical accompaniment. The clip below has since racked up nearly 800K views. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

“Two guys pretend to be homosexuals in Russia.” Nearly 900K views at this writing. Click on the closed captioning. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Read More »

Why We Celebrate

UPDATE: Ugh, it turns out the interviewer is a total nutjob.

Read More »

Kids React To Gay Marriage Ruling

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Read More »

AdWeek Slams Catholic Vote Clip: Galling And Meant To Marginalize LGBT People

In the comments of the post below this one, JMG reader Sam points us to this takedown of Catholic Vote by AdWeek: About halfway through this two-and-a-half-minute film from conservative nonprofit the Catholic Vote, its treacly, overlystylized message becomes clear. These Catholics are nervous about revealing their stance on same-sex marriage because they’re (spoiler alert!) against it. That stance is …

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

Via Business Insider: A YouTube video shared after Sunday’s parade shows a parade marcher getting his groove on with what appears to be a member of the New York Police Department. We’ve reached out to the NYPD for comment but haven’t heard back yet. The 12-second clip stars the unlikely duo dancing to along to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til …

Read More »

Pre-Flight Checklist: Remove Cat

Via the Guardian: A cat has escaped with at least one of its nine lives after stowing away on an ultra-light aircraft flight. A video has been posted on YouTube of the cat digging its claws into the aircraft’s wing as its pilot and passenger fly hundreds of feet above the ground at first apparently unaware of its presence. Romain …

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

Via TIME Magazine: “This is something that is a part of me and has always been a part of me” YouTube beauty expert Ingrid Nilsen had an important message for her 3.3 million followers this morning, announcing in an emotional 20-minute video that she is gay. The video, which garnered more than 900,000 hits in just eight hours, featured an …

Read More »

1WTC Eleven Year Time-Lapse

1.2M views already. The observation deck opened this week. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

Clip recap: “This Marble Run ‘Marble Tsunami’ has 4 tipping containers holding totally more than 11 000 marbles. In this video you’ll see the 10 000 marbles AND the 1000 marbles container will tipping together causing more than 11 000 marbles rolling down the giant tracks.” (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

Read More »

YouTube Celebrates Ten Years

Dan Savage makes the ten year best-of clip: “From the silly to the profound, from the personal to the political, we’re celebrating a decade of your creativity and self-expression. And, we’re doing it from A to Z.  With over 75 references and 18 filmmaking styles, we’ve tried to capture some of the richness and variety of YouTube from the last …

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

440K views already.

Read More »

Viral Video Of The Day

This gave an Australian morning show a case of the giggles, especially since the player on the left’s name is Willie. The female anchor exclaimed, “No reaction at all! Was that some sort of secret handshake? At least buy him dinner first.” The two players are former teammates, by the way.

Read More »