I’m going to give you a quick peak behind the curtain at how the sausage is blogged, and then at the end, let’s just agree to tear the curtain down and set it on fire and stop eating sausages and dump all the blogs in Whoops Ocean. So, and not that any of this will be new to you, because you are very smart and you pay attention and you connect the dots like some kind of Jason Bourne but with less punching people in the throat with books, but with any full-time “professional” pop culture or entertainment blogs, the writers and editors spend most of their day reading other people’s pop culture and entertainment blogs. That’s how they know what is going on, and that’s where 80% of their posts come from. (While we are certainly critical and skeptical of this model, Videogum follows this model to a T, and actually 80% seems low from a Videogum standpoint, so we are just pointing out right off the top that we are not excluding ourselves from this unfortunate NIGHTMARE.) This creates what is called an echo chamber in which small pieces of borderline meaningless information, or even worse DISinformation, are quickly circulated and amplified and turned into a “thing.” This is, of course, how viral videos are created. It is also why your 10 favorite websites probably write about the same 10 things (again, Videogum included, Videogum is part of the problem, not the solution). There is no better place to see this in all of its sad and boring action than in the more niche markets, like, “film blogs” or “celebrity paparazzi blogs” because their publishing mandate requires them to stay on top of all the “news” in their designated category but there’s only so much “news” on any given day, and so anything that’s even remotely novel or that seems potentially interesting becomes a bigger thing very quickly. The whole system is completely broken. There don’t need to be 10 websites churning out the same 10 rehashes of a thing that may or may not even be true. It’s dull! And if nothing else it creates eyestrain. Anyway, today we have another great example of this in the Story of the Harrison Ford Casting in the Blade Runner Sequel. Which is not actually happening. And so, just as quickly as a thing that you didn’t know was happening was announced, it was discredited, and this discrediting was announced, and so now where are we? Here is the full story, from /Film:

For those of you who haven’t memorized the nominee list yet, this year’s Academy Award nominations feature only two songs in the “Best Original Song” category — a song from The Muppets and a song from Rio. Super dumb. It sounds kind of like an accident they should’ve just fixed quietly, and is in spite of songs from Elton John, Mary J. Blige, and other artists that would have been normal enough being eligible. Haha. Like, there weren’t ONLY two original songs in movies this year, FYI. But I guess they ended up with two due to the voting process being complicated somehow. It was probably some kind of very complicated math problem and if you didn’t understand all the equations you were supposed to employ you just ended up with either The Muppets or Rio. And voters were like, “Uhh…did you get The Muppets?” “Yeah, I got The Muppets.” “Ok, phew, me too.” But right when you thought they they couldn’t take anything MORE from our Oscars traditions, LOOK WHAT THEY’RE TAKING AWAY NOW! From Deadline:

This week’s Best New Party Game comes from a FAILblog post of a Facebook thread but all the names are crossed out so maybe YOU (Time‘s Person of the Year, 2003) invented it! Basically, some IDIOT (everything begins and ends with idiots) posted a question on their Facebook page asking for help remembering a particular movie by giving such vague information that they could have been naming lots of movies. And then that person’s friends and family, who clearly hate him/her and think he/she is an idiot, posted lots of comments on the thread playing on this blooper. And thus a party game was born. All that was needed was a party. So let’s party. The game is pretty simple and I think you will both pick it up quickly and enjoy it immensely. Or maybe not. I’ve been wrong before. Just kidding. Never.

• What’s that movie where Jason Statham kicks a guy in the face?
• What’s that movie where Julianne Moore cries a lot?
• What’s that movie where someone took Harrison Ford’s family?
• What’s that movie where Will Ferrell has a temper tantrum?
• What’s that movie where Stan Lee makes a cameo?

You get it. So why don’t you ACT PLAY LIKE IT.

• A collection of posters displaying step-by-step moves to all of your favorite TV and movie dances, from the artist Niege Borges. “Ooohh, he should do one with the Robyn dance.” -Everyone’s embarrassed brain. -IWatchStuff
• Uhoh, Uggie is sick! Guys. What if Uggie dies at the Oscars? Or what if he dies BEFORE the Oscars? Or what if he dies right before he has to be shown at the Oscars? This seems like it could be a disaster! Poor Uggie! I’ll miss you! I’m sorry you’re sick! I’ll see you in heaven! -Vulture
• Parks and Recreation writers answer some question about Tom and Ann’s relationship, and answer the question NO ONE was thinking about Leslie and Ron. Gross yuck. -E!
• Oh holy moly, this clip from this British game show is about 8 minutes long, but you should still watch it. It’s a dating show and the guy is a jerk and keeps saying all the wrong things. Watch it! I know I didn’t sell you on it, but watch it anyway! -TheDailyWhat
• Here is a supercut of TV shows connected by TV show references within the TV shows. It’s very good aside from how they connect Gilmore Girls with The Office by using a quote rather than the show title. Uh, helloooo. I’m sure Gilmore Girls mentioned SOME TV show at some point. Those qals qere the queens of references, c’mon. -TastefullyOffensive
• PETA is mad at Liam Neeson for eating wolf stew, or something, in preparation for filming his movie The Grey. And then they’re mad about some other stuff about it too. Those guys. -Dlisted
• The thing that’s so shitty about this Gisele quote is how it’s something that NONE of us would ever even think of saying about our loved one’s relationship with their coworkers. Especially not when we thought we were only talking to our friends. And especially not after the loved one just had a big loss and strangers were heckling US about it. What a horrible woman!!!!! -PopWatch
• Did you guys watch Jimmy Fallon after The Voice? Did you miss it? In case you missed it, here is the opening thing from it! -PopCultureBrain
• The important Puppy Bowl results that are not getting talked about enough today. What’s wrong, everybody? CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE? Hahah. -WarmingGlow