Tag Archives: YouTube

Last month many of you enjoyed YouTube member Fagottron’s Mary Poppins electro mashup Expialidocious. Here’s his latest, from Willy Wonka. Visit his site.

From YouTube member Fagottron, a strangely gorgeous take on Mary Poppins. Free MP3 download here. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan T)

(Via JMG reader Mike T)

Remember the Big Fat Gay Anti-Hate Collaboration? Here’s a bunch of French kids doing their version. Almost as cute as the first one, I especially cracked up at the 2:00 mark.

Hey record labels – thanks for the avalanche of weekly emails about your latest smash releases. But when I go to your YouTube clip and see “embedding disabled by request”…man, you people really don’t understand what blogging is all about.

YouTube has reversed itself and restored NOM’s ad featuring Carrie Prejean. The ad was taken down after Perez Hilton claimed copyright infringement for a 3-second glimpse of his video blog reaction to the Miss USA pageant. For a detailed analysis of YouTube’s ruling, visit Copyrights & Campaigns, which you should note is a site written by John McCain’s former Special …

Two dozen YouTubers collaborated to create this take on Lily Allen’s Fuck You. Love it, love it, love it. Big props to Bil Browning at the Bilerico Project for the tip. I’m putting this on repeat for the rest of the day.

Now that Slap-Chop and Sham Wow pitchman Vince Schlomi has been arrested for beating up a prostitute (who gave as good as she got), he’s become a target for YouTube’s Auto-Tune masters. Now you know how Kanye does it.

Edge Boston is reporting that local authorities have visited the home of ChristianU2uber, the 12 year-old boy who came out as “ex-gay” on YouTube and became the hero of the Christianist right after suffering hundreds of vicious comments. [C]oncern voiced at Internet news resources, blogs, and forums for Scott’s well-being seem to have had a result. EDGE received an email …

Whether you like her or not, it’s rather fascinating to watch how Susan Boyle has blown existing internet viewing records out of the water. The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle, whose online popularity is headed straight to the history books. The video of Boyle’s performance in the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” has set the record …

One of my favorite YouTubers just forwarded me the message he got from YouTube explaining why his clip of Rachel Maddow discussing those NOM audition tapes was pulled for copyright violations. Here’s a bit of “assistant to the director” of NOM Joshua Baker’s complaint about the clip: The copyrighted work at issue is an audition tape produced by the National …

“I used to be gay but then I decided it was wrong and I stopped it. Now I’m very interested in girls,” says 12 year-old YouTuber ChristianU2uber in a clip posted two weeks ago. He says he learned that being gay was a sin on the news. Christianist site WorldNetDaily has taken an interest in the kid and yesterday posted …

Finally an all-Lego musical version of Silence Of The Lambs. This killed me. Dead. Possibly NSFW. (Via – Slog)

An adorkable deaf dude gives us a sexy ASL version of Britney Spears’ Womanizer. This has been floating around YouTube for a few weeks, but for some reason a dozen of you sent this yesterday. I live to serve.

President Obama sends this message to the Iranian people as they mark Nowruz, the Iranian new year holiday which comes on the first day of spring. Only Nixon could go to China; only Obama would use YouTube to speak to Iran.

YouTube users in the UK cannot see music videos at the moment, thanks to another breakdown between Google and the major music publishers. Google Inc. said Monday it will block U.K. users from watching music videos on its popular video-sharing site YouTube after negotiations with Britain’s music royalty-collecting body broke down. Google said it would begin blocking British users starting …

Here’s Barack Obama’s first weekly message via the White House’s fancy new official YouTube channel. It’s rather comical to read the usual YouTube quality of comments on an official presidential channel. “OMG! LOLOLS!1!! U totally pwnd Gitmo! URULE!1!”

It’s not clear why, exactly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has posted a YouTube video showing her cats padding around her office at the Capitol Building. Wait for the 40-second mark where Pelosi shows off her YouTube-y hipness.

Yesterday the Israeli army launched their own channel on YouTube so the world can witness the mighty mighty power of their American-made-and-paid-for technology.

Warner Music announced yesterday that they will be pulling their clips from YouTube in a compensation dispute. Warner Music Group’s videos will no longer be available on YouTube due to a contract dispute between the music company and the popular video-sharing website, US media reported. Talks between the two firms over licensing agreements for Warner’s music videos collapsed last week, …