incredibly popular internet shit you don't understand at all

posted this in another thread, but here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54yESyq6Io

Not surprising that out of everyone I know forwarding and LOLing at this, all but one has been white and moderately well-off (and grown up in the middle-class suburbs or city).

Yeah I didn't care for that one. Although I do think Antoine Dodson seems like a cool guy.

haha omg shoes

Salad Fingers is just incredibly boring, wow

xpost ya if anything i'd be laughing with him, not at him (as many seem to be doing). tho i doubt he was laughing at all

white people jumpin' all up on some bullshit meme shockah

i like almost everything about the autotune news except for the autotune news dudes.
they ruin the whole conceit by jumping in there themselves.

I vote for Lonelygirl15 and every JibJab thing ever.

Oh, and "Don't Tase Me Bro"

appending lol to words in place of having anything clever to say

I think most of the humor re: the Dodson thing is related to all those "stupid criminal" stories that you always hear about, only this one's got the tables turned even more with the victim and her family publicly threatening the attacker. It's nice to see someone get to mouth of about something you're in righteous agreement with on such a boring formal format as the local news. Plus, the autotune-the-news guys turned it into an impossibly catchy song. I'm not sure how much of it's really race-based. I'm white, btw.

the people I know who are forwarding it on aren't people who are championing what Dodson did, they're making fun of his accent, and the things he says.

I watched it & I thought that dude was pretty awesome. He's got some righteous rage because his sister almost got raped. I thought it made sense that he'd stick up for her like that, even if the way he's letting off steam is a little OTT. Just because some dumbasses are posting it (I know a few) doesn't make him a dumbass.

Oh he ain't a dumbass at all -- I fully support what Antoine said and did, I just don't like how people I know are like "LOL DUDE IS SAYIN GUY IS RAPING EVERYBODY". hell I didn't even realize it was about an attempted rape until I openedi t up as none of the people I know sharing it mentioend that aspect

That's pretty shitty. I'll still vouch for it as being funny to some for reasons other than racism. XXP-Abbott OTM. My FB friend who posted it first is the local organizer for V-Day and super-sensitive to this kind of shit and now she keeps inviting everybody to join his FB fan club, etc.

the people I know who are forwarding it on aren't people who are championing what Dodson did, they're making fun of his accent, and the things he says.

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Eh, one could just as easily say the same thing about the double rainbow guy being a stereotypically white fat ass hippie.

xpost that I'll ride with. not people making fun of him in a condescending fashion.

"Don't Tase Me Bro"

how can you not love "Don't Tase Me Bro"

my gf thinks that vid is the funniest thing ever. not sure if i can date a racist tho, now that you point that out.

xposts

I don't think people who find it funny are 'racist' as I hate to slap that label on anybody. the acquaintances I know are definitely misguided though.

how can you not love "Don't Tase Me Bro"

I don't really enjoy watching people get tased, I guess!

I did however like the pants on the gruond guy (Larry Platt) tho. but that surprisingly got tired way faster than I expected. even the facebook group isn't posting on topic anymore.

how was that not tired like 3 nanoseconds after dude's first appearance

can't something just be funny, ffs? we (or at least i) found it funny because you just don't see that kind of thing on the news. they let him go on and on and then cut to this straight-faced newscaster talking in her nicest news-voice. i never thought of it as laughing "at" him or at his "accent".

xposts

i nominate facebook.

however this cracks me the fuck up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cZ7OT7BmM8

i guess it's really TV but also nominate the tribunal of humiliation brand of TV contests.

xxxpost I'm not standing on a soapbox talking about everybody who likes this Youtube video - that wouldn't be fair. I'm talking about specific people I know, and who have left comments on their Facebook posts clearly indicating why they found it funny, which I found to be somewhat condescending in those cases. I wouldn't suspect your wife or you (whom I don't personally know) of any such biases.

are these specific dudes frequent condescenders? i've noticed a cultural shift where people are more cavalier nowadays about throwing around condescension (for which i blame facebook)

people are more cavalier about a lot of things on facebook, which is why I trim friends lists monthly.

You sound like a guilty whitey who has only white friends.

super helpful post there thirdalternative, I can see that you're a man who values reasoned discourse

Lol, only white friends. my best friend is a 6'4 black male.

Clearly you are a heightist.

dunno why I thought the height was relevant there xpost DAMMIT lol

those sub-6 footers with their 'special vehicles' and clothing stores

The thing corey posted above, an example of "YouTube Poop," can often send me into hysterical laughter. This one, for example, is funny every time I watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCr-l9naPmE

well this one is new to me -- I've seen the "YouTube Poop" vids before but avoided em as I awsn't sure what they were with the vague title. KOTH example a little overlong but made me laugh

antoine dodson seems like a pretty awesome dude

Just saw Double Rainbow for the 1st time. I get it, it's a guy on drugs flipping out, but how it warrants 10 million views is something I don't get. This should really only be popular with Adult Swim potheads or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbL_5rH1QQ

This guy right here is transcendent though. Easily my favorite TV show since, I don't know, Sifl & Olly. Surreal and inspirational. I emailed him 3 times trying to get him to sell me a DVD of original broadcasts but he can't because it was on public TV.

Double Rainbow is the sort of thing that seems like a real treasure when it has 1000 YouTube hits but not so special when it has 3 million. Common hipster complaint, I know.

Some things definitely cross that line and become 'viral' and suddenly it shows up at the end of the Channel 2 news. It places it in a new context, one that carries all this mainstream baggage with it. You think how are people making money off this, how many people are saying they like it just to seem hip, how many weak parodies are degrading the unique value of the original...

I'm just glad nobody I know is into that All Our Base Are Belong to Us fad anymore

all your blase are belong to us

All Your Bass Are Belong to Us, produced by DJ Magic Mike

i much prefer 'for great justice' over 'for the win'
i mean justice is surely more important than vanquishing your enemies?

I'm just glad nobody I know is into that All Our Base Are Belong to Us fad anymore

That scene from Zero Wing is pretty great. Not so into the rest of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRzBVv2CSE0

I knew you would link that. (I also remember when I first told you about it.)