The web has given us a lot over the previous few a long time, good and unhealthy, however for me personally it has turn into the vessel by way of which I’ve consumed a number of the biggest and dumbest stuff created by human arms.
This record is about celebrating these issues.
For your leisure have collated a really private quick record of the very best issues I’ve ever seen on the web. These are the tweets, YouTube movies, Instagram posts and TikToks I return to endlessly, usually in my darkest hours.
Let’s go!
Dunkey’s Mario Kart video
No-one agrees with me, however I consider Dunkey is likely one of the funniest individuals on YouTube.
Dunkey’s channel typically focuses on video video games and he has a handful of absolute bangers. There’s his video about Skyrim mods. His Metal Gear Solid explainers are additionally traditional.
But his video on Mario Kart 8 is the one I return to most.
The entire factor is hilarious — primarily a sequence of clips of him getting hit by pink shells and customarily dropping his shit over how unfair the sport is — however the ending. Dear lord the ending.
I do not wish to spoil it an excessive amount of, however it’s a murals. Just one of the crucial completely executed items of enhancing I’ve ever seen. Hang it within the Louvre.
Ice T’s “actual nut”
A REAL nut… Feels like each bone in your physique comes out the pinnacle of your dick… Say no extra. I’m performed. Fall asleep in 2min.
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) January 19, 2011
Every every now and then I’ll see a thread on Twitter in regards to the all-time biggest tweets. This, for me, is #1. Forever.
I can not clarify it. The rhythm, the visceral nature of the outline: “Say no extra. I’m performed.”
Fall asleep in 2min.
The Ping Pong anime intro
I’ve lengthy been a connoisseur of anime openings and have heaps of favorites. But high of the pile, with out query, is the intro to Ping Pong.
I’m obsessive about sports activities manga and browse Ping Pong years in the past. I fell in love with its obtuse, hand-drawn model, full with warped dimensions and crooked traces. When an anime was introduced I could not think about the way it might do the manga justice. I simply wasn’t certain how the characters would transfer?
It took this intro actually two seconds to make me a believer. Ping Pong would not simply do the manga justice, it elevates it to a distinct stratosphere. On the floor it is utterly borked and ugly, however the animation model and its rotoscoped animations mix to create one thing hyper actual. It additionally comes full with a banger track in Tadahitori by Bakudan Johnny.
Every time I watch this video (which is quite a bit) I fall in love over again.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Instagram account
Cristiano Ronaldo will not be solely a generational expertise, and one of many biggest footballers who ever lived, he is additionally an extremely onerous employee. His Instagram account nevertheless is a masterful murals and a dedicated testomony to his prodigious ego.
I can not get sufficient of it.
Whether he is posting “candid” images of him flexing his ridiculous washboard abs or touting his newest hat trick, you get the overwhelming vibe of a person desperately making an attempt to masks his personal preening, self-obsession. Personally, I find it irresistible.
Incredible.
It’s all completely crystalized on this one submit.
Ronaldo desperately tries to make use of this “finish of yr” tweet as a second to mirror on what was a troublesome yr for a lot of, what with COVID-19 and lockdowns and whatnot. But he completely can’t for a single second cease himself from speaking about what number of targets he scored in a season the place his personal groups (Juventus, Portugal and, finally Manchester United) have been largely unsuccessful. Just wonderful. It is the whole lot. If I used to be a well-known soccer participant I’d 100% submit like Ronaldo.
Limmy: Gotta Take A Little Time
Limmy is a Scottish comic turned Twitch streamer who’s in all probability most well-known for his Steel vs. Feathers sketch. That video is a masterpiece, however my very own private favorite is his “Gotta Take A Little Time” video, which initially aired on Limmy’s Show, which was on BBC Scotland again within the day.
I do not assume I’ve seen something seize the nervousness of social interactions fairly like this. A failed joke, the stroll again residence, replaying the screw-up again and again. Then later, redemption as Limmy tells a wonderfully timed joke that lands. Just unimaginable. The subtleties, the facial expressions. I really consider Limmy is a genius.
Going to a overseas nation in a Hollywood movie
@finlaycomedy I needed to dub this bc my hairdryer was too loud #viral#fyp#foryoupage#xyzbca♬ unique sound – Finlay Christie
This is a TikTok sequence by the very gifted comic Finlay Christie, however the first video is 100% the very best of the lot. If you have watched Indiana Jones or The Mummy or any journey film in that ball park, you will love this. Check out all of his stuff although, he is wonderful.
Who do you assume you might be I’m!
After successful the 2012 U.S. Open bowling championship, skilled bowler Pete Weber unleashed one of the crucial weird submit match celebrations in web historical past, coining the phrase “who-do-you-think-you-are-I-am” within the course of.
I’m not even certain it is worthwhile explaining why that is humorous. Everything simply combines completely: The professional bowling sun shades, the beetroot pink face, the jerky, uncontrolled motions of a person possessed. The commentary performs a component as nicely: “A strike to say it… a strike to say it…”. That phrase lives in my head lease free.
Something I discovered after the very fact. Turns out Pete Weber was screaming at a child within the crowd who had been heckling him the entire match. The reality this outburst was directed at a cheeky child within the viewers makes it 100% higher.
Dril’s tweet about fixing racism
everyone needs to be the man to jot down the tweet that solves racism as soon as and for all as a result of it might look good as hell on a resume
— wint (@dril) July 26, 2016
Plenty has been written about Dril’s Twitter account, however I feel video games journalist Gita Jackson put it finest when she described his gimmick as a “joke account that additionally inadvertently catalogues… each technique to be mad on-line.”
And if we start with the widespread understanding that Twitter is the worst social media platform to ever exist — and the only real motive why on-line discourse is cooked to its absolute core — then Dril’s tweet about fixing racism through a tweet encapsulates the whole lot flawed about the way in which individuals discuss on-line.
It completely expresses the real-time gold rush for the grand, retweetable tackle no matter present occasion persons are tremendous offended about. Everyone does wish to write the tweet that adjustments the world, however the finish result’s simply swathes of full rubbish of individuals consistently one-up one another seeking the Galaxy Brain tweet to finish all Galaxy Brain tweets.
Ironically, Dril, with this tweet, has come nearer than anybody to crafting that good tweet. It’s by no means not related.
