incredibly popular internet shit you don't understand at all

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

amusing, but it doesnt make me weep like Jiz.

Yeah, that was funny. It's so obviously just two guys fucking around making up jokes as they go but that's part of the fun. :D

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

That's not what happened. Now they think that he just passed out and his dogs (not just one dog) chewed on his face in an effort to wake him up, just like what happened with that face transplant case in France.

i've always kind of hated the "boom goes the dynamite" video

ok maybe "hated" is too strong but it's so uncomfortable that i really couldn't fathom wanting to watch it again and again or sending it to friends

The Stile Project turned into a porn site sometime around 2001. I've often suspected that it was always intended to become a porn site after a short time of showing shock material to attract attention.

xp yeah laughing at that kid always seemed kind of churlish and mean

i think with fred we can safely bypass the "WHAT IS THIS!?!?" straight to the "no, i've figured it out and i'm better than this shit"

We're not even talking about cats here.

seriously, can someone explain why the double rainbow thing is "funny" or "interesting"

in original WoW video, l33t should be 1337. that's basic.

This is weird to me, because I'm usually easily annoyed, but I think I get Fred, and I find him entertaining. He's camp for kids! Not the kind of camp that sneaks in to so many cartoons and children's shows that's really meant for parents or stoners or whatever other adults are going to end up watching the show, but really targeted at kids themselves. It seems to me that kids are supposed to watch this and be amused by the recognition of the (often incredibly annoying) things that they and other kids do and say. It's not entertaining because screaming and freaking out are innately funny, it's entertaining because the recognition that childish histrionics are horrible is funny.

ugh, no, sorry, that's stupid.

ralph pootawn is hilarious

but mostly the internet is an awful place

where the dreams of the greeks who created western civilization go to die

that fucking "shoes" video that every fucking girl at my college loved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA

clearly you've never been a girl who loves shoes

Someone write a book about all these things, thanks.

yeah, i fucking hated "shoes"

omg shoes

shoes

salad fingers

salad fingers is another case of "I know exactly what this is doing and it's fucking irritating"

Yes, but when people tell me how funny it is, I feel as though I'm missing something. I like dark humour etc but only when it's funny.

is homestar runner 'incredibly popular'?

My kids memorised all the Annoying Orange sketches and recite them to each other. I think it's shit, but then my dad hates Vic Reeves and his dad hated Monty Python.

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.