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.
Forklift Driver Klaus English Subtitles
An English-subtitled German workplace safety film about forklift driver Klaus.
How does Linus make money? - 2020 Update
Linus Tech Tips gives its 2020 breakdown of how the company earns money, including ads, sponsors, merch and affiliate links.
This Video Has 77,321,815 Views
Tom Scott's video whose title shows its own live view count, and the story of how he made that work.
$h!tty Thumbnails on Linus Tech Tips - Honest Answers Ep. 5
Linus Tech Tips addresses criticism of its clickbait-style thumbnails in an Honest Answers episode, explaining that the YouTube algorithm pushes creators toward them.
Sasquatch music festival 2009 - Guy starts dance party
Amateur footage from the 2009 Sasquatch music festival in which one person starts dancing alone and a crowd gradually joins in, turning it into a dance party.
Steve Ballmer Going Crazy on Stage
A short compilation of Steve Ballmer energetically shouting and dancing on stage at Microsoft events, including the famous developers chant.
Dumb Ways to Die
The viral Dumb Ways to Die music video, a cheerful animated song created for a Melbourne rail safety campaign.
Facebook Freebooting - Smarter Every Day 128
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explains 'Facebook freebooting', where Facebook users re-upload YouTubers' videos natively and the original creators lose views and revenue.
Founders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange
Joel Spolsky's 2012 Google tech talk on the cultural anthropology of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
Learning from StackOverflow.com
Joel Spolsky's 2009 Google Tech Talk on why StackOverflow was built, how it addresses the mess of searching for programming help, and the community design behind it.
Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18
Josh Wardle, later the creator of Wordle, talks at SF Tech Poetics about why April Fools' Day in Silicon Valley is often lame.
1994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"
A 1994 Today Show clip in which hosts puzzle over what the Internet is and how to say the at-sign in email addresses.
Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day examines how bad actors and bots use Twitter, drawing on the released Russian IRA dataset and interviews.
Insane Clown Posse - Miracles (Official Music Video)
The official music video for Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles, from the album Bang Pow Boom.
You Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again.
Matt Gray and Tom Scott review how viewers worked out where they watched the 2017 solar eclipse from, based on clues in their video.
why typing like this is sometimes okay.
Tom Scott makes a short descriptivist argument that language keeps changing and that casual internet writing conventions, like lowercase typing and dropped full stops, are legitimate.
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape
Six minutes of street scenes from New York City in 1993, captured from a D-Theater HD DVHS demo tape that reused footage shot for the Japanese HiVision market.
Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?
Tom Scott explains YouTube's 11-character video IDs, which are base-64 encoded 64-bit numbers, and whether YouTube could ever run out of them.
Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
A one-minute clip about Paul Otlet, the Belgian bibliographer who in 1934 imagined users accessing a remote database through an electric telescope over a phone line.
I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo
YouTuber Josh Pieters lists microwave meals on Deliveroo as if from a restaurant and sees whether anyone orders them.
Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
UnHerd interviews Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who explains why he no longer trusts the site he helped create.
Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?
Numberphile visits YouTube to learn why view counts on new videos used to freeze at 301.
I installed Linux (so should you)
PewDiePie describes switching to Linux and encourages viewers to do the same.
The PewDiePipeline: how racist humor leads to violence
NonCompete's video examines the alt-right pipeline and a 'pyramid of violence' running from implicit bias through edgy racist humor to real violence.