Posts Published December 2011

Demon Santa: A Post-Christmas Advice Meme

I didn’t want to ruin Christmas for you, so I saved this until a time when it’s okay to imagine Santa as a hellspawn.

See more of the Claus from beyond the grave. »
- - 2011/12/27 at 10:57 am
  - by Christopher Lindstrom
- - 348 views
  - No comments
- Filed under:Advice Meme
Christmas Songs, In Order of Depressingness

Please stop playing this music. It hurts me. It hurts me… so much.

First: The Charlie Brown Christmas songs. »
- - 2011/12/24 at 1:04 pm
  - by Oliver Miller
- - 1331 views
  - 3 comments
- Filed under:Lists
Dumb Running Sonic

Dumb Running Sonic is a blog full of people’s retarded animations of Sonic the Hedgehog running (including the above Fat Sonic).

This single-topic blog seems to be slowly spreading. Despite over 260 entries and a shoutout from Sega’s Twitter account, it only hit 3,000 followers yesterday, but it’ll obviously be huge by next month.
- - 2011/12/23 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 2729 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Blogs
Scumbag Santa, Your Christmas Advice Meme

‘Tis the season to be bitter. Scumbag Santa is an advice animal meme that reveals Santa Claus for the asshole he is.

The meme was first posted 3 months ago on Reddit, where Christmas (among other things) comes early:

After poring over pages of this meme, I learned something about you guys. You are still angry at Santa for making out with your mom and eating your cookies, you never got that really cool present you asked for, you think Santa is too judgmental and is engaged in class warfare, and you think jokes about Santa’s sack are hilarious.

Here are the top Quickmeme Scumbag Santas, followed by seven of my own.

See the truth about the world’s most successful creeper. »
- - 2011/12/22 at 2:00 pm
  - by Nate Smith
- - 9858 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Memes
No Wait, This Is Everything: Happy Holidays From This Fruitcake

Dave Seger knows that covering people with slimy foodstuffs is a reliable crowd-pleaser.

Watch this fruitcake. »
- - 2011/12/22 at 1:00 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 442 views
  - 2 comments
- Filed under:This Is Everything
Uncastable: Mike Lacher

Slacktory loves Uncastable, the web series of nightmare auditions, so much that we’re publishing two episodes ourselves.

Last time, Nick Douglas rang in the season for savings. Today, Uncastable co-creator Mike Lacher goes digital.

Watch his audition, unless you’re the kind of person who says ‘Curbed is too awkward for me.’ »
- - 2011/12/22 at 12:24 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 460 views
  - 3 comments
- Filed under:Web Shows
This Is Everything: Going to the Store With a Real Person

It’s a guy re-enacting the famous video of the mannequin flailing around L.A.

Doop doopee doop, doopee doopee BOOP boop! »
- - 2011/12/22 at 12:06 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 332 views
  - 4 comments
- Filed under:This Is Everything
The Best Ryan Gosling Memes From Gosblr, the Ryan Gosling Tumblr Tumblr

Ryan Gosling blogs mostly follow the format of the original, three-year-old Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling: “Hey girl, blah blah blah.” There are so many of them that there’s a blog just dedicated to finding and cataloging them, run by the Daily Dot.

The first spinoff, Feminist Ryan Gosling, came out this October.

And now there’s… »
- - 2011/12/22 at 8:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 16595 views
  - 7 comments
- Filed under:Memes
What Videogum’s 2011 Viral Montage Reveals About Our Big, Sophisticated Internet Memes

The Best Viral Videos Of 2011: A Retrospective | Videogum

It’s over 4 minutes and it still feels cramped and skimpy (but excellent!). It leaves out Ted Williams the golden-voiced hobo, Asians in the Library, Jim Carrey’s creepy message to Emma Stone, Benton, and probably a million people misbehaving on trains. And yet it catches dozens of things that other year-in-virals montages missed. That’s how huge our weird little internet has gotten.

Earlier this year I asked Greg Rutter if he’d ever make a third ‘You Should Have Seen This’ list. »
- - 2011/12/21 at 12:16 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 389 views
  - 4 comments
- Filed under:Videos
Startup or Pokemon?

Every time you play, you get a different random set of 10 startups or Pokemon. I got 8/10, 5/10 and 8/10.

Go play Startup or Pokemon? by Evil Brain Jono.

Facebook office photo by Acid Cow
- - 2011/12/21 at 9:00 am
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 188 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Data Points