incredibly popular internet shit you don't understand at all

well, it's something that would've been on all that

in fact i would be surprised if all that didn't have a "dude talks in a helium voice" character

I don't know much about WoW but I know internet abbreviations and the Muppets, and I imagine that is enough for a million hits right there.

DM, ZG, UBRS, MC etc are completely specific to WoW (they're abbreviations for dungeons that no one has gone to in like 3.5 years since the expansion packs made them irrelevant).

O_O

yeah, exactly

I think you could draw a line from Fred to Woody Woodpecker if you really tried.

(Note: Fred is the fucking worst, don't get me wrong here.)

well you could, but why would you want to

I love lines. :(

omg I'd forgotten how irritating Fred is

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 3:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was the most irritating thing i have ever seen

I'd only seen Fred on an episode of iCarly that I was watching with my niece. I had no idea he was a real thing until later.

does Fred have a Dyson?

Fred will be a movie soon, if you didn't already know:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64509

okay that's it, shut down the country; we've failed

First time someone mentioned Fred I thought they meant that green dude who stands around holding a beer can while watching virtual people having sex + refuses to leave when they tell him to. (Don't know the name or even the game, but it's probably second life)

Ralph Pootawn, it appears.

some nickelodeon show based an entire dreadful episode around fred iirc

I am a big Ralph Pootawn fan fwiw

saw this thread, came to post "internet sensation fred," saw it was in whiney's lead post.

i do not get "internet sensation fred" at all.

Ok, he's an instant classic.

http://ralphplsgo.com

just fyi these is still the funniest WoW internet humor thing I've seen:

http://ia310809.us.archive.org/3/items/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1/iraqimage001.gif

http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/CqoIrO5/full/wow-lotr-328x180-gif.gif

I'm pleasantly reassured by how annoying Fred is. I always assumed that with all the noisy, obscene music I've listened to in my life, there would be nothing my child's generation could come up with that would actually offend me. Fred gives me new hope. Adults are supposed to hate kid/teenager stuff, it's not weird for a bunch of internet dudes in their 20s/30s to not get videos created by a 16-year-old to entertain 12-year-olds.

Hipster Puppies

^^ was waiting

For some reason Fred reminds me of a much more irritating version of this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBO0fr1Ui4

Seriously though, come on now. xp

you seriously don't understand Hipster Puppies?

I think the idea is (or has become) that you don't understand their popularity?

I can understand hipsterpuppies but I can also understand how someone wouldn't understand hipsterpuppies, like someone who didn't know or care about what hipsters were

which is a decent % of the internet

can we just blanket state "extreme grossout videos" here? like all of the seriously deranged deviant sex stuff like 2g1c and death/dismemberment videos and the like

yes

add in shit like rotten.com and The Stile Report to that list btw

How do you feel about horror movies, Mr. DERE?

yeah, but those have like narratives and stuff

not a fan, but at least those aren't real

How do you feel about wall-o-ginas?

they are great, especially stealth walloginas

most of those looked pretty noisy to me

I dunno, maybe I'm a total freak, but rotten.com has some edifying moments. Like pictures of dead Mussolini.

I haven't looked at rotten.com since like 1999

http://ia310809.us.archive.org/3/items/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1/iraqimage001.gif

lol clicker

maybe this is only something that my dumb queer friends and i find funny when we're drunk, but uh, some people don't understand why parts of this make me absolutely cry laughing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK108u2xAs

the one time I looked at The Stile Report, it had pictures of a dude on PCP who scraped off his face with broken glass and fed it to his dog

do not want

lol bnw

Fred/Edith Ann parallel is kind of OTM. I remember when I was a kid I used to always like Gilda's caffinated "Judy Miller Show" character.

i have never seen this Stile report tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MA0eW8yyw

oh, no, i have seen Stile Project, it's just really gross porn now. not really that shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5PoW7_kdA

I at least "get" most internet memes unless they're too niche-referential, but I'm probably the only person here that can be brought to tears laughing at stuff like this (warning: loud)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7EW80mzDo

fred is the less good version of shaye st john imo

so fred is basically 14-year-old andy samberg with a chipmunk filter on his voice? idk i was expecting worse.

antoine dodson auto-tune the news vid was just a story on ch4 news

<3 existence

i don't get the star wars prequel commentary shit that has been posted elsewhere on here, mainly b/c i can't get past the dude's voice and his jokes aren't funny

Yeah, but those movies are so bad they deserve to have all the reasons pointed out as much as possible. It's great to see that clip of Sir Alec Guinness wistfully talking about how Anakin was the best star fighter pilot in the galaxy, cunning warrior, and a good friend, then have it cut to them bitching at each other in Ep 3. Or Yoda speaking wisdom about the mystery & power of the force from Empire, intercut with Ep 3 footage of him jumping around w a lightsaber like a mindless videogame character. The side-by-side starting at 5:00 in below really nails how GL turned a modern myth into a lifeless, busy-looking piece of merchandise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0wv2ossJU

Really agree w you tho, this series could have been 5 parts long w/o all that faux horror movie BS.

I mean Ep 2.

ya but if u wade thru the annoying voice and stuff (which actually kinda gets funny thru repetition) his analysis is pretty effing great

i like how the criticisms arent fanboyish 'u ruined my childhood' stuff at all, or 'jar jar sucks,' they're just like, how does this story make any sense at all

Agreed. Great analysis, lame comedy.

But the comedy breaks up the pacing a bit for people who don't want to sit through a sixty-minute video review of a movie from over a decade ago.

I suspect if you removed the horror bits, not only the pacing would suffer but the analysis would seem dumb, too.
there's a fine line between "no duh" and "on the money" and the horror bits lower your critical bars.
"This is pretty astute analysis for a horror-comedy character"
vs.
"This dude is not saying anything that isn't blatantly obvious to anyone who has seen the movies"

I guess there is one way to find out -- has anyone made a phantom edit of this guy's reviews subtracting the horrorcom stuff?

You would have to re-record the audio.

and kill yourself after

My kids sing this in the car until I cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

I understand this shit, holy shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8CtWUY7nvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQZj5jT0qfU

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:)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7ey2yJutg1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg

hahahaha

http://hipsterhitler.com

Blooket. Middle-school kids love it. I'm in for French today, so we're playing some Blooket at the end of each class. I log on, choose the topic--animal names in French, right now--they log on with the code, then the timer starts. For the next seven minutes ("Green bean just took 53 crypto from no"), as the summary of what's happening scrolls by, I haven't the faintest clue what's happening.

Hahaha. I've used Blooket a few times. It's basically a tool like Quizlet or whatever to promote the gamification of revision of stuff like subject terminology. There are rules and styles but I wouldn't worry too much. It's a load of shit and only really useful as a babysitter.

Which is me teaching French in a nutshell--babysitter.