incredibly popular internet shit you don't understand at all

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.)

maybe this was already mentioned, but i guess this was a "thing"?

http://www.xomba.com/girl_quitting_job_dryerase_board_confirmed_hoax_jenny_elyse_porterfield

really boring.

Agreed, plus you kind of have to wonder about the popularity of quitting your job memes in the midst of a recession with high unemployment. For many of us it'd be nice to have a job in the first place...

It's true, but one thing that is shittier than having a bad job is having a bad job in a shitty economy. Because if you complain you're an asshole, but your job sucks just as much (if not more).

^^^^^ I hate that the right to complain about one's job has been tempered in some quarters by the unemployment rate. Certainly, sensitivity is important -- I'm not likely to go spouting off at the mouth about how much I hate my job around friends of mine who just lost theirs.

But it gets a little tiring to hear the fourth person go "well at least you have a job". So that means I should just accept the working conditions and shut up, right? On the one hand it did cause me to reflect on what is truly important to complain about, but when there are serious issues that need addressing, it's not dickish to complain about them.

the other thing that bugs me is the reply "well why don't you do something about it instead of whining about it". I'm not someone who sits idly by while stuff sucks, I've not only gotten things changed due to my persistence, but I always am very "in your face" with management on issues, while maintaining a professional tone. At the point I'm bitching about it, often it means I've tried and failed and am finally giving up.

hrm replace "in your face" with "up front"

i've always been a little suspicious of workplaces where everyone claims to be happy though, e.g. zappos, southwest

that is because they are cults

@Philip -- in my Intro to Speech class freshman year of college, this girl did not one, not two, but THREE speeches on working at Disney.
First speech was an introductory speech, where she described the "amazing" experience and what it meant to her. Second was an informational speech, where she gave information on working there. And the third was a persuasive speech where she told us all why we should work there.

It was downright scary how obsessed she was with it. I'm glad I live nowhere near there now.

that's incredibly hilarious considering that every account I've heard related to working at Disney equates the experience to working in a sweatshop

I assume this girl wasn't performing?

Yeah, guys if you have a job, that's totally cool, no ill will towards yall. I know that especially the past few years the people that have been able to stay employed have gotten a shitty deal, having to do extra work with little extra rewards, and actually being afraid of asking for props for that extra work they are undertaking. But workers, comrades, let us not fight amongst ourselves!!

I was trying to explain why that meme didn't interest me. Biggest offense was it seemed too twee or blatantly marketing school-viral. 33 separate dry erase board photos? seems like a cell phone commercial from 2003.

xpost No, she was working in one of the gift shops, as a trainer. Nowhere in there does that sound like a recipe for awesome.

sorry Adam, none of that was directed at you -- it was just a tangent I launched on.

I kind of like that quitting your job has turned into a weird folk-art along the lines of wacky marriage proposals, which makes its use as viral marketing extra offensive.

I think ILX needs to colloborate on a viral marketing campaign -- one idea, one item, for 2010

http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tf20x/Beckii_Schoolgirl_Superstar_at_14/

that's incredibly hilarious considering that every account I've heard related to working at Disney equates the experience to working in a sweatshop

I have heard the same thing.

I have no idea if this is incredibly popular or not, but I dunno where else to put it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1c2KzJbcGA

LOL. I actually saw Leslie Hall live about 5 years ago. It was amazing but mostly in a "What the fuck is going on here?!" kind of way.

seriously, can someone explain why the double rainbow thing is "funny" or "interesting" or anything other than mildly dumb and irritating but not anywhere near the degree requisite for memedom?

If you think there's some degree of quality or funny or... whatever... requisite for memedom, you are WAY behind the curve. Those things have nothing to do with memedom. Rarely even anything to say to it. They're really awkward at parties.

My own theory about double rainbow is that it actually IS pretty damn awesome, but dude can't keep it in check. So it's like, you had me, then you lost your shit. And that's funny.

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