April 1, 2008 is not the best day to hit the YouTube Featured Videos list. You may be familiar with Rickrolling, the practice of posting a deceptive link that leads to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. This April Fools’ Day, YouTube Rickrolls everyone as Featured Videos links all […]
Watch out for Claire Danes-lookalike actress/producer Felicia Day. She’s so hot right now.
The Internet gods definitely dig Felicia Day, creator and star of online series “The Guild.” Things started nicely in Austin, Tex., where she won for best original digital series at the SXSW/On Network Greenlight Series Awards. In the following days, she has picked […]
While parodying the foibles of gamer social units is a fantastic idea in a time when games outpace movies and music, it’s the execution that won The Guild Best Original Digital Series Production at The Greenlight Awards. I’m an avid gamer myself, and I’m laughing my ass off.
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Sure, we’re all laughing our asses off as Hollywood celebs adopt YouTube collab and response formulae to sing about Jimmy Kimmel fucking Ben Affleck. Andrew Wallenstein, however, points out that the star power of this sketch marks an important cultural shift.
It’s what the Oscars and really all of mainstream Hollywood has to learn from the […]
This meme’s been bouncing around among anime fans for a year and a half, but it’s only recently gaining ground on YouTube. On August 8, 2006, this guy posted a dance clip from the Japanese anime Popotan set to the chorus of the Swedish dance track Caramelldansen (Speedycake Remix).
The result was an Internet phenomenon. Anime […]
Few YouTube comedians make my watchlist while I’m lounging around naked with a pretty girl. Mark Day is one such comedian. That’s why I congratulate Mark on joining the YouTube team as comedy manager. My only regret is that we won’t get to hear as many of his hilarious non sequitur rants anymore.
For the record, […]
Lindsay Campbell recently left the hit financial show (and CBS acquisition) Wallstrip to host CBS’ upcoming political show Mob Logic. Irreverence is key to Wallstrip’s success, and it seems like Mob Logic will be every bit as irreverent as Wallstrip. Their latest teaser is a parody dub of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Is the Dramatic Lemur the next Drama Prairie Dog? We’ll just have to wait and see if people will mash it up. Apparently, zany animal reactions make great meme fodder inside online video.
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Sure, it’s not Oprah, but the best person to interview online video stars is someone who’s an online video star in his own right. The first episode of The Bubble Gum Tree Show, Kevin Nalts‘ weekly interview series with online video stars, features Mark Day. They’re both comedians, so this pilot episode is frickin’ hilarious.
Kevin’s […]
Webcomics are natural candidates for direct-to-online-video animated adaptations. My current favorite webcomic, Tim Buckley’s gamer comedy Ctrl+Alt+Del, goes into its second season of animated adaptation in March. It’s paid subscription content — and some people might have trouble with the idea of paying for access to Flash animations — but I was reasonably entertained by […]
A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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