Tag Archives: YouTube

3.7M views in three days.

Cuter than you would think. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

(Tipped by JMG reader David)

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

With a flotilla of viral stars.

The original is here.

Clip description: I had a GoPro camera set up on my cabinet and i just recorded myself doing the same dance routine every day. I wanted to do something along the lines of take a picture of myself everyday for a year but different. I eventually came up with the idea of 100 days of dance, I really didnt want …

(Tipped by JMG reader Win)

From the guy whose most recent ChatRoulette video has gotten over 111M views. For this clip, his YouTube followers are arguing about food wasting.

6.6M views since Monday. Mother’s Day is May 11th.

“Everyone loves YouTube right? Wrong. We take a look at the 10 countries who’ve tried their best to shut us down.”

725K views in 24 hours. No audio.

AIDS denialists are filing takedown notices against a YouTube vlogger who uses their claims to shred their batshittery. Via Boing Boing: Myles Power, a debunker who goes after junk science and conspiracy theorists, has gone after AIDS denialists and a terrible, falsehood-ridden, dangerous documentary called “House of Numbers,” which holds that HIV/AIDS isn’t an actual viral illness, but rather a …

“Our friend Miche Braden returned to help us show what Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child O’ Mine would have sounded like if New Orleans blues legend Bessie Smith had recorded it back in the ’20s. That note at 3:58 was so powerful that the room literally shook.”

From YouTube’s Whisper Mister, here’s an oddly fascinating bit of talk therapy meant to induce something called the autonomous sensory meridian response, which Wikipedia calls “a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli.”  You’ll have to turn it …

“A homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.” It just gets weirder and weirder. (Tipped by JMG reader Molly)

If you don’t have HBO, the network has posted the full first episode of Looking to YouTube. Embedding disabled, of course. (Tipped by JMG reader Bernard)