A YouTube Yuletide: 12 WTF holiday videos
From Miracle on 34th Street to Rankin-Bass television specials, people have been using the magic of the motion picture to bring Christmas to life. Thanks to YouTube, thousands of heartwarming...
View ArticleIs "1 Pound Fish Man" the next Psy?
A London fishmonger just might be on his way to becoming the next Psy. Muhammad Shahid Nazir, better known as the £1 Fish Man, has released a major-label music video eight months after a video of his...
View ArticleYouTube Guide: "Mario Warfare"
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...
View ArticleDotted Lines: Yoko Ono sings Katy Perry's "Firework"
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. Ashton Kutcher invites you to his...
View ArticleChristmas songs, in order of depressingness
Please stop playing this music. It hurts me. It hurts me… so much.Vince Guaraldi Trio, “The Charlie Brown Christmas Songs” “Peanuts” is already the most depressing thing on the face of the earth; in...
View ArticleThe Morning GIF: A Christmas miracle
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 ArticleIt's not Tim and Eric, but it's definitely weird
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, better known simply as Tim and Eric, have created a distinct brand of comedy that’s inspired everything from pasta-filled teddy bears to an annual holiday, “Chrimbus.”...
View ArticleDaily Fluff: Puppy gets all his Christmas shopping done early
Even though there are still two weeks until Christmas, Bailey, a local french bulldog, has reportedly already finished all of his gift shopping. Sources close to the situation tell The Fluffington...
View ArticleYouTube right now! "Breaking Bad" in the style of "The Wire"
What if Jimmy McNulty were on the case of Walter White? A YouTuber has created a Breaking Bad supercut set to each season's opening sequence of HBO's Baltimore crime drama The Wire. The video begins...
View ArticleVin Diesel may be the most-liked Santa Claus on Facebook
Every day, the Daily Dot finds something that people on Facebook are sharing and, in turn, shares it with you—with a little explanation. Here's today's share. Were you worried that your buddy Vin...
View ArticleFalcon "Balloon Boy" Heene's heavy metal Internet comeback
Balloon Boy is back—and he's rocking out. That's right, 9-year-old Falcon "Balloon Boy" Heene has made his triumphant return to the Internet limelight, reemerging from his bizarre childhood as one...
View ArticleBargain Bin Blasphemy: A tribute to black metal
If you spend enough time in record stores, you start seeing the same albums in the crates: Grand Funk Railroad, Barbara Streisand, Herb Alpert, Bing Crosby, and that Al Jarreau LP my mom inexplicably...
View Article#WeirdWednesday: Famous last words
The conclusiveness of a story’s final line is just as powerful as the world of possibility that unfolds with its opening.The Last Words documents the final lines of fictional books and the last few...
View ArticleRedditors' favorite posts and comments of 2012
Earlier this month, Reddit installed a new feature that allowed users with Reddit gold—a suite of fancy tools and perks you can buy for $4—to save their favorite comments. Here are our favorites from...
View ArticleBored British police parody Vanilla Ice on Twitter
Let's face it: The weather in Britain is boring. It's cloudy. It's wet. It's not really doing much. Anybody who talks about it is obviously on their last conversational legs. It's really just...
View ArticleYouTube star FPS Russia funds a video game on Kickstarter
Now you might have the chance to walk in FPSRussia’s shoes. YouTube personality FPSRussia has one of the most popular channels on the video sharing site, with more than 3 million subscribers, but the...
View ArticleIs Aziz Ansari behind "Homeland" parody @SergeantBrody?
Of course comedian Aziz Ansari is the creator of @SergeantBrody, a parody Twitter account that shrewdly mocks the Showtime drama Homeland. In an investigation that would even wow the pugnacious David...
View ArticleYouTube Guide: "The Charlie Brown School of Dance"
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...
View ArticleDotted Lines: The Dark Knight Rises (in Lego)
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. Oregon mall shooter Jacob Tyler...
View ArticleDaily Fluff: Wealthy dog fires bath masseuse
Three society tabloids are reporting that Biscuit the dog (of the Norfolk Biscuits) has fired his personal bath masseuse over disagreements about hours and salary.“Biscuit needs a masseuse on call...
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