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.
Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott and Matt Gray talk at Electromagnetic Field about making Emojli, an emoji-only messenger that began as a joke, how it was built and why they never want to do it again.
POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist
A 69-minute documentary on the Polybius arcade-game legend.
Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War
A video essay from lawyer-turned-YouTuber Moon Channel on the South Korean gender war, tracing its historical roots and modern origins through the lens of a gacha game controversy.
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213
Part 1 of Smarter Every Day's three-part series on manipulating the YouTube algorithm.
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Michael Wesch's five-minute video about Web 2.0, showing how the read/write web, XML and user-generated content change how people create and share information.
The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops
An Innuendo Studios video essay from the Alt-Right Playbook series that uses the Seinfeld 'the card says moops' scene to explain bad-faith argument tactics.
Brain Crack (Explicit Version) :: Best of the Show :: 07-11-06
A short Ze Frank piece from his 2006 show about "brain crack", the rush of exciting new ideas that feel great but tend to fall apart once you start executing them.
Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like
People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.
Game Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube
The Game Theorists analyze how PewDiePie rose to become the most subscribed channel on YouTube.
The Really Dark Truth About Bots
Benn Jordan examines the role of bots and propaganda accounts on X and other social platforms, including the platform's decline and the influence of Russian operations.
Update on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
An update from the Strange Parts YouTuber on his recovery from a brain injury caused by a metal pipe while filming, and his plans for the channel.
Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]
A short English-subtitled clip of Shuzo Matsuoka, a retired Japanese tennis player turned motivational speaker, delivering a never-give-up pep talk.
Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm
Folding Ideas examines weird, algorithm-gamed children's content on YouTube, from automated toddler videos and educational spam to exploitative prank channels.
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
Clay Shirky argues at Web 2.0 Expo NY that the problem online is not information overload but filter failure.
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
A bizarre, tongue-in-cheek video in which John McAfee himself supposedly shows how to uninstall McAfee antivirus.
Everything Is A Remix (Full Film)
Kirby Ferguson's film argues that creativity is built from copying, transforming and combining existing works, examining music, film and technology.
My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
Veritasium's Derek Muller explains his hypothesis that YouTube's algorithm, not viewer preference, drives views, and that click-through rate has become the key metric.
So...TikTok Sucks
Hank Green, a TikTok creator with millions of followers, explains why he thinks TikTok underpays creators.
BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
Jason Scott's multi-episode documentary on the bulletin board system scene of the 1980s and 1990s, built from over 200 interviews.
What is a Browser?
Street interviews of over 50 passersby in Times Square, asked what a browser is.
2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001
A one-minute archive video of the 2Advanced Studios v2 website from 2001, a showcase of the elaborate futuristic Flash interfaces the agency was known for.
Reddit Place (/r/place) - FULL 72h (90fps) TIMELAPSE
A 72-hour timelapse of Reddit's 2017 April Fools' experiment r/place, a collaborative pixel canvas where each user could place one pixel every few minutes.
Copyright Deadlock (The Jimquisition)
A Jimquisition episode by Jim Sterling demonstrating the Copyright Deadlock, where a video includes footage owned by several companies so that competing YouTube Content ID claims cancel each other out.
THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX.
Jon Bois tells the story of a 2008 bodybuilding forum thread in which users spent a weekend arguing over how many days are in a week.