PickVidsBest Internet culture & memes Videos
The 170 Internet culture & memes videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 1 intermediate, 168 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a comedy piece. What they share is that the jokes rely on a shared background in this scene. Channels you will keep seeing include Tom Scott, Innuendo Studios, Folding Ideas.
This Is Phil Fish
Innuendo Studios uses Phil Fish, creator of the game Fez, as a case study in internet celebrity.
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.
Tom Scott's long explainer on YouTube's copyright system, Content ID and the DMCA.
The Problem With Facebook
Veritasium's Derek Muller argues that Facebook's business model works against pages and creators, because it charges them to reach the audiences they built.
VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Folding Ideas uses the rise and fall of the YouTube competitor VidMe to examine why platforms are not friends to creators.
This is Financial Advice
Dan Olson's long Folding Ideas video on the GameStop meme stock phenomenon, its online community and the conspiracy thinking around it.
Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian
The first part of Innuendo Studios' six-part video essay series on the online hostility around Anita Sarkeesian and GamerGate.
Incels | ContraPoints
ContraPoints' 35-minute video essay on incels, examining the community, its worldview and how people get radicalized.
Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
Darius Kazemi's XOXO 2014 talk on releasing 72 weird internet side projects in a year.
What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners
Finnish YouTuber Saara improvises gibberish that mimics how various languages sound to people who do not speak them.
Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
CGP Grey explains how ideas spread like germs, and why content that triggers outrage spreads fastest, using a study on what makes online content viral.
Canceling | ContraPoints
A long video essay by Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints on cancel culture, drawing on her own experience of being pile-on targeted by other leftists.
Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
A mashup that plays a Miles Davis improvisation video alongside an LCD Soundsystem clip with no editing, so the two seem to perform together.
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos.
Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
Veritasium explains why clickbait titles and thumbnails work, how he tests them, and why educational creators feel pushed to use them.
Facebook Fraud
Veritasium argues that Facebook's ad revenue relies partly on fake likes, after paying to promote his page and gaining tens of thousands of followers in developing countries who never engaged.
Flat Earth: A Measured Response
hbomberguy investigates the modern flat earth movement and why people come to believe it.
BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)
The first episode of Jason Scott's eight-part BBS documentary, covering the predecessors and beginnings of the dial-up bulletin board system.
DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
Jason Scott of textfiles.com tells the story at DEFCON 17 of being sued for two billion dollars by a scammer who plagued him and others for over a decade.
Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
Bo Burnham's song from his special Inside, a satirical take on internet culture, attention and extremism.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
Jason Scott of Archive Team describes how a loose band of volunteers rushes to copy sites like Geocities, Friendster and Yahoo Video before their owners delete them.
Angry Voicemail We Got From an Alamo Drafthouse Customer
Alamo Drafthouse posted an angry voicemail from a customer who was kicked out for texting in the theater.
A real person, a lot like you
A three-minute video from Derek Sivers, based on his book Anything You Want, about remembering that the people you deal with online are real people.
What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab
Coffee Break analyzes about 40,000 videos from seven months of YouTube's trending tab.
Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
Tom Nicholas critiques Veritasium's sponsored video on driverless cars, using it to examine YouTube sponsorships, science-channel credibility and how statistics and misinformation can be used in branded content.