If you’ve seen series like Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix or, god forbid, you read a book or something crazy like that you’ll probably be aware that George Lucas soaked up and spat out a whole bunch of different influences for the original Star Wars trilogy. In this 15 minute short he, along with [...]

You can’t really get more generic than stock footage, and that’s what’s used in this generic brand video, which first appeared as a satirical poem on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency last month, written by Kendra Eash. And now it’s made the jump from generic brand video poem to generic brand video, and it once conveys both [...]

Sorry for the spoiler straight off, but the president doesn’t really play Titanfall, someone pretending to be him does—I mean, you might’ve been convinced that this was the president’s way to reach the gaming demographic in much the same way that he reached out to “the kids” by appearing on Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s been busy lately making appearances on QVC, and he seems to be interested in selling one item in particular—and it’s certainly not the blender with its “high-octane” features, Arnie doesn’t give a damn about that. Who could possibly care about such an item.

Since the birth of jazz and blues, music has always propagated its own subcultures, and with the rise of the teenager in the 50s, the two have become synonymous—giving people who feel like outsiders in the mainstream a place to belong. Even in the niche-ridden world we live in today where subcultures come and go [...]

No one can doubt that John McClane is tough, taking down terrorists is practically his day job, but even though he fights his way through explosions and bad guys in every Die Hard movie he still manages to come away with little more than a dirty vest. He should be grateful the laws of science [...]

As if NDT couldn’t get any cooler, now someone’s gone and taken a video of him praising Sir Isaac Newton and slowed it down so the great man sounds like he’s just spent the weekend in Colorado toking on a vaporizer—and the fact that he starts to then go on to talk about, like, rainbow’s [...]

Taking inspiration from the recent ‘Would You Help a Freezing Child?’ social experiment in Norway, Youtuber Yousef Erakat decided to test how kind people in the US are by putting a kid on the street and pretending he’s homeless to see how the public would react. The results are very interesting, it seems like a [...]

In his post-Oscars show Jimmy Kimmel premiered a series of viral video movie trailers that took some classic YouTube clips and, using the movie industry’s finest, proceeded to give them the Hollywood remake treatment where budgets are big and the acting is award-worthy.

High school is usually a pretty crappy time for most people, struggling to fit in or get through the day without getting your pants pulled down and laughed at by your peers—but for a small minority of kids, the really popular ones, the bullies, the cool kids, it’s the best time of their lives, because [...]

Two VICE reporters—Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo—go undercover in a truck-stop strip joint in Moriarty, New Mexico, where David Lynch has got nothing on the surreal and strange happenings that go on inside. It’s a place that uses the bras of former employees to decorate its walls and is named in The Ultimate Strip [...]