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Show me a circa-2008 satiric political web video, and I’ll show you well-meaning liberal media makers who, more likely than not, haven’t…
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Some of the worst decisions people make involve when, where and why they take off their clothes. But that doesn’t seem to…
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Were you as surprised as I was that so many people even questioned whether the first McCain Girls video was an earnest…
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On April 1, Rickrolling became Public Enemy No. 1 to those devoted to serious Internet browsing. Since it’s always best to understand…
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She’s the insanely successful, Kids Choice Award winning singing/acting daughter of famed mullet-rocking one-hit wonder Billy Ray Cyrus. Her Hannah Montana 3D…
Read MoreSofia’s Diary: Halfway to “Well Guud”
After blowing up the chemistry lab at her old high school and being caught with some Ecstasy (which she swears does not…
Read MoreFood Fight: History as Told by Cuisine
Bratwurst assault destroys a population of fish and chips. Kebabs and lox bagels engage in a lethal standoff. And Vietnamese spring rolls…
Read MoreEverything You Totes Didn’t Need to Know About The All-for-Nots
What do you get when you combine a horny bassist and his groupie girlfriend, a laconic drummer with impulse control issues, a…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Jack and Hill
On Friday night, YouTube user FFABT (it stands for Foundation for a Better Tomorrow, which doesn’t appear to be any kind of…
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Coming on the heels of a full week of hand-wringing over who Lorne Michaels would pick to play Barack Obama on Saturday…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: 2/8 Life
In his post on last week’s launch of new video startup Independent Comedy Network, Chris Albrecht expressed doubts as to whether there’s…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Arin Crumley and Balance
Last weekend, filmmaker and digital DIY evangelist Arin Crumley went to a party in Brooklyn, where his coat, wallet, passport, bike and…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Indie vs. Studio
Spread out across four episodes on YouTube, Indie vs. Studio is a film-industry spoof of the Mac vs. PC Apple campaign that…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: ThunderAnt
In 2007, a significant shift took place in the world of professional comedians as many of them started creating original content for…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Juntoons
Juntoons: the latest entry into the new frontier of semi-surreptitious online movie marketing, or legit fan fiction? Thrillingly weird mashup of sex…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions
I’m not sure when the original 2 Girls 1 Cup video, which depicts two women enthusiastically eating what appears to be excrement,…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: quarterlife
I’m probably just being reactionary, but the first thing that struck me as being a little off the mark about the first…
Read MoreWho Needs Girlfriends When You Have a Development Deal?
We Need Girlfriends, a scripted, episodic web sitcom that has garnered a significant following on YouTube, has managed to score an honest-to-goodness…
Read MoreAlive in Baghdad: Can Citizen Journalism Done Right Pay the Bills?
Alive in Baghdad is arguably the best-positioned citizen news video outfit in the world. It boasts not only an on-the-ground team shooting…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Welcome To My Home
Brenda Dickson used to be legitimately semi-famous. A former beauty queen, she played the role of Jill Abbott on the daytime soap…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Filipino Prison “Thriller”
When I first become aware of a funny YouTube clip that’s been making the rounds, I rarely watch it more than once,…
Read MoreAwkward Pictures Win YouTube “Sketchie”
The voting is in, and Payman and Sean of Awkward Pictures have taken home the first YouTube “Sketchies” award with their series…
Read MoreKarina’s Capsule: Next to Heaven
If you made it to Pixelodeon a couple of weeks back, you might have seen Rob Parrish’s Tapes of My Father. Composed…
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