Smooth McGroove: How a bearded gamer became YouTube's next big star
Move over, Bieber. There's a new YouTube singing phenomenon in town—and he makes his own chainmail. With a massive, bushy beard and hair flowing past his shoulders—plus the aforementioned light...
View Article"Supernatural" finally gets a fan film—with one major twist
Joining the ranks of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, the CW’s fantasy/horror series Supernatural now has its own fan film. Written by award-winning fantasy author Naomi Novik (of the Temeraire...
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A trip through history with 150 video game backgrounds
If you grew up playing video games like Street Fighter II or Samurai Showdown, chances are the only thing you focused on was figuring out the right button combination to beat the pulp out of your...
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The Morning GIF: Dispatches from the Juggalo camp
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 ArticleAmplifier Worship: A Spotify introduction to Boris
Leave it to Boris to tour behind an import-only album, self-released more than a decade ago. The most important indie rock band that you've likely never heard, Boris has never been one for...
View Article"Maker vs. Marker": The ultimate Street Fighter showdown
One artist's animation has shattered the fourth wall.Jonny Lawrence, a U.K.-based storyboard artist, goes head-to-head against his creation in a stop-motion animation battle reminiscent of Street...
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Watch redditors get intentionally banned from an online kids' game
Whether it's seeing how many times you can flip a car in Grand Theft Auto III or trying to draw things with bullets on the walls of GoldenEye 007, avid gamers have had a knack for at making a game's...
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The Morning GIF: 11 Doctors, 1 half-century run
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...
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YouTube Trend Map confirms America loves country music, "True Blood"
You now can see what everyone in the U.S. is watching and sharing on YouTube—and it’s mostly country music and True Blood. YouTube Trends, which has highlighted rising YouTube videos and trends since...
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Model's website suspended after not-so-private fight with photog
Once upon a time, a starry-eyed hopeful met a man with long lens and a big portfolio, and it was bromance at first sight. That was three months ago. Now it's a model vs. photographer battle to the...
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The Morning GIF: Iman Shumpert's insane dunk on the Pacers
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 ArticleGuess what percentage of Machinima's audience is female
Machinima is one of YouTube’s largest multi-channel networks generating over 2 billion (with a “b”) views per month worldwide across its 7,600-plus channels and 213-plus million subscribers that...
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There's an app that lets you play dress-up with Drake
We are truly living in the future. We live in a time in which pretty much all of recorded music is at your fingertips, you could eradicate paper today and it wouldn't be that big of a deal, and you...
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Vampires shooting up heroin is your Morning GIF
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 Article"Burger Lab" takes cooking to an absurd new level
“Some commenters have suggested we tone it down a little,” explains host Richard Blais in the first episode of the second season of Burger Lab, “take it easy on the sound effects, maybe go less epic...
View ArticleOut of the top 100 Vines, these are the ones worth watching
Vine users are already sharing five clips to Twitter every second. That's just one of the stats to emerge from a study by video technology firm Unruly, which looked at tweets about almost 11 million...
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This computer program can teach itself to beat Super Mario Bros.
It's fairly well known that the first part of the first level of Super Mario Bros. was designed to teach new players how to jump on bad guys, eat mushrooms, and so forth. But what about players that...
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One Direction fandom adds billionaire record exec to conspiracy theory
The Internet is a breeding ground for conspiracy theories—9/11 truthers, moon landing denialists, people who believe that the world is secretly ruled by an elite caste of reptiloid aliens hidden...
View ArticleChris Hadfield, the Internet's favorite astronaut, sings "Space Oddity"
David Bowie has been upstaged—hundreds of miles away. Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who traveled to the International Space Station in December, has spent his time in orbit as an Internet celebrity. From...
View ArticleThe "Arrested Development" season 4 trailer is no illusion
If the latest trailer is any indication, the upcoming season of Arrested Development looks like it will pick up right where the award-winning series left off in 2006. Only there're a few changes....
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