YouTube Guide: Essential Christmas viewing
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 ArticleYuleTube turns nasty YouTube comments into nice ones
Christmas cheer should be omnipresent, even within the dark depths of the trolling hotbed that is the comment section of YouTube videos. It turns out that's now possible, all thanks to YuleTube, a new...
View Article21 online versions of your favorite childhood toys
As kids everywhere tear open their gifts this Christmas morning, we at the Daily Dot are unwrapping their online counterparts. Once upon a time, entertainment didn’t depend almost exclusively on iPads...
View ArticleThe 12 best GIFs of 2012
Time magazine's Person of the Year shouldn't have been President Barack Obama or Kim Jong-un or any human at all. The GIF, a 25-year-old animated bitmap image format that shook the sweatpants off every...
View ArticleCrimson Tide dad wins Christmas with this amazing reaction vid
One father got a little more than he expected this Christmas when his son surprised him with a ticket to a big game. As he opened his gift, Dad looked fairly pleased to receive a hat that looked like...
View ArticleThe top 5 GIFs from the "Merlin" fandom implosion
After four and a half seasons, Merlin fandom bid adieu to its beloved show last night amid what may best be described as a flail of tears. Let's just say the ending was sad and, in true Merlin...
View ArticleDaily Fluff: Kitten to pen travel memoir
Miles the kitten has seen his fair share of places in his short life — the living room, the upstairs bathroom, the driveway, to name just a few. It seemed only sensible, then, for him to collect all...
View ArticleWeird Wednesday: Self-Aware Roomba
What is the meaning of a self-aware Roomba? The robot vacuum cleaners live a repetitive, somewhat solitary existence. Left to their own devices, they might start to ponder the meaning of life and why...
View ArticleKobe Bryant takes a bath on Twitter
The Black Mamba has struck Twitter. Kobe Bryant, one of the few big-name athletes to avoid the microblogging service, has "decided" to take over the @nikebasketball account for a few days. To prove...
View ArticleDrake calls out Walgreens and Macy's for selling YOLO gear
Noted millennial scholar/rapper Drake bolstered the phrase "you only live once" (a.k.a YOLO) into the pop culture vernacular... and he wants to get paid for it. Drake spent his Christmas Day putzing...
View ArticleYouTube Guide: Puppy's First Christmas
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 ArticleDotted Lines: A Remix-mas Story
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. The notorious Stuxnet worm hits...
View ArticleThe Morning GIF: Shake it off
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 plans to return gift later in the week
All in all, Dexter the kitten had a pretty good Christmas. He got most of the things he asked for, but one of his presents will need to go back. According to sources close to the situation, the...
View ArticleA trip back in time with Reddit's vintage gaming fanatics
Walk into almost any household and, chances are, you'll find the TV hooked up to at least one video game console—a sleek black PlayStation3 or a soft white Wii. Wireless controllers accompany their...
View ArticleWhile mom's away, dad creates an awesome time lapse
First the toys come out. Then they spread out on the floor. The kid knocks the basket over, but it simply doesn't matter. Mom's away, so the boys will play—for hours and hours and hours on end. Emio...
View ArticleAmazon restocks the self-published "Star Wars" memoir it yanked
Call it Episode VI: Return of the Self-Published Author. After having his Star Wars–centric memoir yanked from Amazon's Kindle store earlier this week, Gib van Ert's A Long Time Ago: Growing Up With...
View ArticleMeet Hwang Min-Woo, the kid star of "Gangnam Style"
The secret's out: The world now knows the identity of the biggest little man on YouTube. Hwang Min-Woo is the 7-year-old Mini-Me behind Psy's omnipresent"Gangnam Style," the little guy in the white...
View ArticleOne Direction gets the Bad Lip Reading treatment
What's the best way to top the many fantastic and hilarious bad lip reading videos on the Internet? The video editors at YouTube's popular Bad Lip Reading channel have decided that in the case of One...
View ArticleApatow and MSNBC host in Twitter fight over "This Is 40"
Judd Apatow came to blows with Toure on Twitter after panning his new movie This Is 40. MSNBC host Touré gave a scornful, two-sentence review which caused Apatow, the film's director and producer, to...
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