This is the internet at its inexplicable best, with YouTube clips segued together to form a stream of weirdness that doesn’t make much sense, but doesn’t really need to. Just lose yourself to it and be grateful that this kind of thing exists. But don’t get caught watching it, because you’ll have trouble explaining it [...]

YouTube celebrates its 10th birthday this year, and to honor that and the fact that we’ve all wasted hours of our lives staring at videos that are hosted on it, Luc Bergeron (aka Zapatou), segues together 198 off some of the best and most memorable viral videos from that time period.

In this interactive documentary, based on British journalist Steven Poole’s book, the manipulative power of language is explored. Merging filmmaking, data, technology, and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series of short films, data visualizations, and a participatory dictionary. The aim is to educate the masses on the power of Unspeak so we [...]

Over in Japan they have what’s known as cuddle cafes, but if that sounds too cutesy for you, they also have Yakuza-sponsored prostitution rings, catering to the population who are just seeking recreational fun rather than serious relationships, and it shows in the fact that hardly anyone is having babies which means Japan has more [...]

‘Computers have more sense than atheists’ goes the comments in this hilarious video that sees actor Alan Cummings read out someone’s thoughts from a Christian forum — someone who thinks that their computer is intentionally calling out their actions when they try to delete the ten commandments and the machine questions the legality of such [...]

Yeah sure we all love YouTube, we spend half our waking hours watching videos that have been uploaded there, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have issues with it.

‘This is Phil Fish’ uses the Fez creator as a jumping point to explore internet celebrity and the backlash that can come from such a quick, meteoric rise to fame. Phil Fish got a lot of stick and hate from the online world and this video, by Innuendo Studios, looks at why that happened.

Don’t pretend you’re in any way better than these people who have chosen to exchange unpleasantries in an enclosed space thousands of feet in the air with not a care for their fellow passengers. The Teletubbies can inflame even the most calm amongst us. Even the Dalai Lama has been known to turn violent when [...]

What’s starts off relatively normal with a bespectacled man singing ‘Habanera’ from the opera Carman, takes a turn for the WTF as slowly people dressed in kinky fetish clothes and gimp outfits start cropping up to play the double bass—before everything eventually turns into a big rave.

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.