YouTube Guide: "Sex and the City" is one long segue
With more than 72 hours of footage uploaded every minute, it’s physically impossible to keep track of the content on YouTube. But in YouTube Guide, the Daily Dot will curate its five favorite finds for...
View ArticleThe Morning GIF: Happy birthday, Dame Maggie Smith!
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
View ArticleDaily Fluff: Kitten and bourbon wear matching sweaters for the holidays
To say that Norbert is a fan of Maker’s Mark bourbon is an understatement.“He’s a super fan,” says Henry Timmons, a close friend of the cat. “This year, he went so far as to dress his bottle in a...
View ArticleThe 10 most influential Twitter parody accounts of 2012
It's increasingly clear that Twitter's only real value* is lampooning the ridiculous. That what these highly successful parody Twitter accounts did in 2012. It seemed that everything that caught the...
View ArticleHulu's top 5 "SNL" sketches of 2012
Yesterday, Hulu subscribers got a little year-end refresher on the year's funniest and most popular Saturday Night Live skits—according to Hulu, that is. The 38-year-old franchise remains a benchmark...
View ArticleProject X tops the list of 2012's most-pirated movies
While Batman and Ethan Hunt helped make The Dark Knight Rises and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol two of the biggest box office hits this year, it was a couple of rowdy teenagers in Project X that...
View ArticleYouTube Guide: Charlie the Unicorn returns!
With more than 72 hours of footage uploaded every minute, it’s physically impossible to keep track of the content on YouTube. But in YouTube Guide, the Daily Dot will curate its five favorite finds for...
View ArticleCharting 2012's top cultural obsessions
You can’t talk 2012 without talking GIFs: the year’s cultural superstar, the Oxford American Dictionary’sword of the year, and the means by which the internet shared its obsessions (and we all know...
View ArticleBuzzed: Kimye, babies, and New Year's Eve
In Buzzed, we take a look at three things that trended over the weekend while you were away from your keyboard getting buzzed.On YouTube At his show Saturday night, Kanye West went on rant slamming a...
View ArticleThe Morning GIF: Old fashioned New Year's
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
View ArticleDaily Fluff: Wisconsin dog cheers Packers to playoffs
Frodo, an 11-year-old pup from The Badger State, was thrilled to see the Green Bay Packers ascend to the NFL playoffs in early December. But he kept cheering his favorite team as they trounced the...
View ArticleThe 10 best new podcasts of 2012
Gaze back on the story of podcasting in 2012 and you may notice conspicuously few major new players. Consider some of the biggest highlights: the purchase of Nerdist by Legendary Entertainment (and...
View ArticleThe 5 worst Kimye baby Twitter parodies
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's insufferable pregnancy announcement is also spawning something equally terrible: Twitter parody accounts. A plethora of humorless, dull, moronic accounts popped up...
View ArticleMonday Mashup: AutoTuned Hitler meets Anonymous
Start your week right with the Daily Dot’s Morning Mashup, the best music remix from around the Web. Turn up your speakers or pop on your headphones, and bring the funk. Seventy-three years ago,...
View ArticleThe best pics of 2012 from Reddit's Photoshop Battles
Mitt Romney holding a pistol sideways at a rally. Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie walking away from an explosion. The Olympics stadium filled with memes. These are some of the best altered images this...
View ArticleThe best of the Internet in 2012
The Daily Dot spent the holiday season checking more lists than the Transportation Security Administration. It’s annual exercise for most publications, a momentary pause for reflection meant to put...
View ArticleInternet Comment Etiquette: Your guide to conspiracy theories
Real talk: Is there a greater cesspool of crudity and NSFL trolling than an Internet comments section? Check it on Gawker, YouTube, or Yelp. There's simply nothing more vile than the comments that...
View ArticleThe 5 best memes inspired by the "Kimye" pregnancy
First the parody accounts, and now the memes: That's how the Internet is methodically reacting to the news of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's baby. West announced the news at a concert in Atlantic...
View ArticleNice Guys of Westeros: Your new favorite parody Tumblr
You know nothing, Nice Guys. In the land of Westeros, there are a lot of eligible bachelors who are ready to forego the brothels and fight to the death in order to be the King of the Seven Kingdoms of...
View ArticlePsy officially retires "Gangnam Style"
Korean phenomenon Psy will be hanging up his imaginary horse saddle in 2013. The rapper/pop-star, whose ubiquitous song "Gangnam Style" plucked him from relative obscurity and made him a viral...
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