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Geek Crush and Must-See TV: Chris Hardwick's Web Soup
As a huge fan of E!'s The Soup and its amazing host Joel McHale, I couldn't avoid the promos and initial episodes of Web Soup, a new show on G4 with a similar format. Except instead of showing clips from that week's TV, its clips are from that week's viral videos on the Internet.
Web Soup's equally crush-worthy host is Chris Hardwick, whom I always liked when he was on G4's Attack of the Show.
Website of the Day: Viral Video Chart
Not too long ago I told you about a site called Top of the Tubes that pulled the most popular videos across the web and pooled them into one spot.
Well if you love viral videos as much as me, then you'll appreciate another site called Viral Video Chart, which shows you the top 20 most-watched videos floating around the Internet.
It even organizes the videos into various categories, so if you just want to watch popular videos about animals or celebrities, you can do that, too.
Have You Done Facebook's 25 Random Things Meme Yet?
Are you on Facebook? Then there is no way you haven't heard of the 25 Random Things About Me meme. It's a note that works like a chain letter, where you fill out 25 random facts about yourself.
What "All Your Base Belong to Us" Means
Were you confused when you saw this All Your Milk Baby Onesie? Do your friends frequently laugh about "Engrish" translations, while you laugh with them, but are secretly confused inside? If so, watch this video, which outlines the "All Your Base are Belong to Us" meme from its foundation to its present.
Internet People, We Love You!
If Weezer's Pork and Beans Internet meme-athon video was not enough for you, then Dan Meth's Internet People just about gets every single Internet phenomena into his animated music video, with a super appropriate title.
I might even like this a little more than P&B, for its sheer vastness of variety.
Forewarning: you will NOT, I repeat NOT, be able to get that song out of your head for hours.
That Viral Weezer Video, Deconstructed
OK, geek confession: I've spent way too much time watching the new Weezer video for "Pork and Beans" and trying to catch all the allusions to viral videos. I'm familiar with most of them, but some I had never seen and had to look up, and some were old favorites — in fact, I think alienated few friends this weekend with bar after bar of "Peanut Butter Jell-ay, Peanut Butter Jell-ay".
Thankfully, video kid Nick McGlynn edited together all of the viral clips that Weezer alludes to, so you don't have to look them all up on YouTube yourself.
Internet Famous Class: A Real Class, Not Just the Name of a New Viral Video
You don't have to cut off a body part to become "Internet Famous," but if you're desperately training your camera on your kid, pet, or friends in hope that they'll do something so compelling as to end up in the category that is viral, well, you can go to school for that. Internet Famous at Parsons New School for Design is a graduate-level class for students and declares itself the first class ever "where software will award each student a grade based on a quantitative measurement of their web fame."
To learn more about this cool class and site, read more
Celebrity Viral Videos Are Good For the Image
Trendhunter recently wrote that actors were starting to get hip to the idea of viral videos as a way to boost their image (in response to the Matt Damon/Sarah Silverman instant classic), and I could not agree more. Once I see a celebrity in a viral video parodying themselves, I think they have a fantastic sense of humor and don't take themselves too seriously — that latter quality being something that is normally antithetical to the image of actors, who are generally perceived as egotistical bigheads with a deep need to be taken seriously. Will Ferrell's FunnyOrDie (their original post being the amazing "The Landlord") has helped in this phenomena, and before sites and actors cropped up trying to create virals, YouTube really boosted the idea — would you have seen Justin Timberlake's "D** in a Box" video if it had only aired on SNL?
Speak Up: Viral Obesity
A recent study concluded that obesity is "contagious" and that it can spread like a "virus" from one person to another. While the headlines all read as if obesity is a physical contagion, the Framingham Heart Study involved a detailed analysis of a large social network of 12,067 people. The participants and their relationships were closely followed for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003.
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Pizza Hut Draws Attention With Viral Video
Pizza Hut has caused an uproar with the launch of a new viral advertising campaign. "Kicked Out of a Pizza Place," a video produced by Mediocre Films, has gotten 198,135 views on YouTube since it was posted less than five days ago. The fast food corporation is piggybacking on the success of other chains' attempt at viral videos, such as competitor Wendy's MySpace video, "Crazy Lettuce".
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