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YouTube viral hits get Grammy love
The nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards are out, and two YouTube smash hits managed to make the cut.Canadian Idol finalist Carly Rae Jepsen and Australian artist Gotye have been nominated for “Call...
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YouTube Guide: Extraneous Lyrics 2012
With over 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 each...
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Dotted Lines: Dumb Ways to Die (in video games)
Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day's must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines. Woman sued for $750,000 for a...
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Daily Fluff: Report: Stand-up desks are better for cat health
Sitting all day can kill you. At least according to some reports. That’s why more feline office workers are opting to ditch the traditional cubicle setup in favor of so-called stand up desks. The...
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The best new music of 2012: A 24-hour Spotify playlist
Spotify’s most popular songs of the year are an amalgamation of abhorrent radio fodder and YouTube’s one-hit wonders: Train, Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen, and not one but two Flo Rida tracks. That’s a...
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YouTube Guide: A short history of the GIF
With over 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 each...
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What if "Arrested Development" were an 8-bit video game?
If the next season of Arrested Development is still too far away for you, here’s something for which it’s worth raiding the banana stand for money. The site 72Pins has reimagined parts of the show as...
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How Christina Aguilera became queen of "dying grandparents"
Have you ever wondered what happens when you do a Google Image search for “dying grandparents”? Sure, why not. It was a logical enough question to occur to a contributor at Buzzfeed, a...
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The Morning GIF: Bar noir
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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Buzzed: Beyoncé, Jenni Rivera, and Bush
In Buzzed, we take a look at three things that trended over the weekend while you were away from your keyboard getting buzzed.On Twitter A slew of celebrities took to Twitter to share their condolences...
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The 8 worst Hanukkah fails
Happy Hanukkah, everyone! Nearly 2,200 years ago, Judah Maccabee revolted against the Seleucid Empire, reclaimed a holy temple, and lit it for eight days with one day's worth of oil. Today, we...
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Daily Fluff: Cat's Christmas tree is a "yuletide masterpiece"
Judges of the 34th annual Feline Christmas Decorators Competition have crowned Daisy the winner for her magnificent spruce. The tree features plenty of dangling catnip-filled mice and a giant yarn...
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Podspotting: 5 lessons from the first-ever Stitcher Awards
Movies have the Academy Awards. Popular music has the Grammy Awards. Television has the Emmy Awards. Theater has the Tony Awards. For all their myriad flaws (“We Are Young” for record of the year?...
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YouTube Guide: "Cereal Killers"
With over 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 each...
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DC Comics fires "Batgirl" writer, Internet demands answers
After denying rumors last week that she walked off DC’s flagship Batgirl revival project, where she was hailed as one of the comic’s most innovative and important writers, beloved writer and feminist...
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Dotted Lines: "10 Real-Life Film Locations"
Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day's must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines. Australian police officially warn...
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The Morning GIF: A very Pusheen Christmas
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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Daily Fluff: Kitty endures forced cuddles like a champ
According to numerous reports and yet-to-be-identified local cat was subjected to a full 20 minutes of forced cuddle time this afternoon. He reportedly was okay with it for the first five minutes or...
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Ray William Johnson tells his side of Maker Studios breakup
Popular YouTuber Ray William Johnson has broken his silence concerning his much-discussed October breakup with Maker Studios, writing in a New Media Rockstars post that "Maker Studios has pushed me to...
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Internet Comment Etiquette: "What To Do When You're Sick"
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...
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