Is BuzzMedia offering tenure now or something?

The “Wear a serial killer costume to a date” strategy doesn’t have a high success rate, but when it works….

I’m going as Walter White for Halloween. It’s going to be perfect for when I go out trick or treating,
all pushing 6 year olds off the steps, racing for the door:
“NO. I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS”

I miss the old days when I could just enter a contest by giving you guys a fake email address solely reserved for things that will probably spam me.

“I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true.”

Worst apology ever?

I would enter this, but I wouldn’t want to write an article about my experiences wearing it.

There would just be a lot of talk about me sobbing, huddled as an inconsoleable ball, in the dark, with the flourescent light from a computer screen reflecting off my tear-stained face.

From that perspective, I get your point. But it still comes off as a little much, y’know? When i’m joking around with friends, not EVERY line has to be a joke. There are set-ups and there are discussions.

Granted I don’t read every single comment page anymore, but the ones I do choose to read are just punchline after punchline after punchline. I rarely see anything in the comments resembling conversation or discussion anymore. And to a large extent, that’s cool. I like to laugh! I like to read jokes! I like to make jokes! All of these things!

But…. just relax, you guys. I think that things like the Monster’s Ball encourage people to be one-up’ing all the time, whether consciously or not. (I think the upvote/downvote sitch as Godsauce mentioned also plays a role, but i think without the Ball it wouldn’t be NEARLY as pronounced). Without all of this hierarchal competition crap, everyone would be able to just chill out without sacrificing the laughs.

I just want upvotes. It’s been so long.

Like many, maybe. I still read videogum regularly but I only comment once in a blue moon. I don’t really expect any of my grievances to be addressed. That’s not because I suspect a lack of motivational will behind this review post, but more due to my complaints being a mix of unaddressable (with regards to the realities of a community) and of these complaints being in the minority.
So I’m mostly listing these because I really don’t have a lot going on in my life.

1) Obviously this has been addressed in the great civil war of 2010 and I guess my side lost but, my god the .gifs. Sorry but real talk: the .gifs are the worst. They make the comments page load 10x slower and for literally no gain. “Oh but the .gifs can be just as clever as the comments!!!” Nope. No. But whatever, us .gif haters will lick our wounds. It may have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

2) Maybe this is a problem limited to my account, I don’t know. But i have to login every single time that I want to leave a comment. That “Remember me” checkbox is a lie. Even the autocomplete features on my browser are like “LOL wut?” Also if I sign in to leave a comment here and then go to stereogum to leave a comment in the same half hour, i’ve got to sign in AGAIN? These are precious 5 second intervals that could add up to a whole youtube video of a cat jumping into a box.

3) Monster’s Ball. Still hate that. Makes all of these comments competitions to be the funniest and just a big giant circlejerk. I feel like this community would literally be 10x better without that stupid thing.

4) Shake things up a bit? All of these WMOATs and You Can Make It Ups (as awesome and hilarious as they are and continue to be) have just gotten kind of tiresome.

5) I think the number of comments are a little disparaging. And really how can you stop that or why (as an enterprise that really relies on networking) would you want to? But maybe cut out those party games? I mean really? Who reads 400 comments worth of a thread? We read maybe the first 20 that catch our eye and then stop, if we even read them at all.

Other than that, we cool bro.

looks like you’re a bad haircut too late, Gabe

This is his actual youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jayherrod1

Just a warning, there is no staircase leading out of the rabbit hole.
ALSO he used to have a video with his son on that channel? And he was just as super weird/weird looking as him, just standing there, nodding in agreement, while his dad angrily asks Selena Gomez why she doesn’t call his son back? Anyway I found out today that he deleted it. Probably for being TOO real.