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Trying to pick the best “you done wrong” video in the sports world is super-difficult. Still, there’s something extra-special about this combination of failure, relief, triumph, and anger—especially given that it all occurs in the span of roughly five seconds or so. To be a fly on the wall in the locker room…
No Sir Ian on these ones. However, there’s nothing wrong with pointing out that some people just have a natural attraction to various objects in life, be they baseballs, or water bottles, or…
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Actors, take note: it’s not the background that ultimately sells this video, it’s the foreground one-hundred-percent of the way. Freebird, anyone?
Even the star of this video has his own Web site. World, we give up. Pop culture has officially jumped the shark.
Smirnoff missed a major opportunity by refusing to take this Internet fad and spin it off into a full-fledged advertising campaign. Even more catastrophic? In the time it took this guy’s bro to drink down his beverage, said “icer” probably made more than either of us will see in a year. Sigh.
We have nothing against children that are all loopy after they’ve finished a trip to the dentist, nor do we have anything against those who remix profanity-stricken rants into videos of said children returning from a dental visit. But that’s merely scratching the surface of the emerging, “Children do strange and/or awesome stuff in cars” Youtube category.
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domo
October 22, 2010 at 3:56pm
What about Antoine Dodson and the bed intruder song? Thought that was pretty funny.
EclecticFortune
October 22, 2010 at 2:19pm
These can't be the best You Tube has to offer. I'm sure there are MUCH better recent videos out there. Perhaps Maximum PC should assign the "Best of" You Tube video picking task to someone else next time around.
TheMurph
October 22, 2010 at 4:16pm
Well, yes, there are many funny videos on Youtube. Culling it down to 30 is pretty difficult and I'm quite sure that your list might very well differ from this one.
Any examples? Throw some hyperlinks in a reply to this post!
Keith E. Whisman
October 22, 2010 at 10:13pm
EpicFail.com has plenty of funny videos that really are entertaining. Like the Chimpanzee and the totally owned frog. Or, or the cute kitten picking on the bunny rabbit only to get used up.
Keith E. Whisman
October 21, 2010 at 8:16pm
I just couldn't watch anymore after that panda crap... That was just plain terrible. I almost destroyed my computer after the third panda video in that huge panda video thing. It was terrible. I still want to hurt myself just thinking about that stupid panda. God that should be illegal. Make terrorists sit and watch that Panda video over and over again and they'll be saying anything you want to hear, just turn off that god forsaken video and wipe out that music from my head.
That fucking music is playing in my head over and over like when you look at the sun and you get that yellow ball in your vision for minutes afterward. Please warn us next time.
TheMurph
October 22, 2010 at 8:39am
that's the price you pay for the funny: having that song stuck in your head for three days. Oof.
Danthrax66
October 21, 2010 at 2:42pm
Best use of minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV0XB-w_yM
whyyes123
October 21, 2010 at 1:39pm
Heh I guess all the Jessie Slaughter videos must have gotten taken down. That was both a meme and one of them (Dubstep tuning) brought in 12 million hits in one day..
TheMurph
October 22, 2010 at 8:38am
Indeed. However, this list is more a... combination of quality and quantity (hits, that is). I don't really think the Jessie Slaughter videos are all that amusing. Then again, I'm not much of a 4chan regular anyway...
I_pwn_newbz86
October 21, 2010 at 1:05pm
I am Sitting In a Room 1000th upload has 1million views. The complete mix of all the videos only has 38,000.
athlon11
October 21, 2010 at 11:27am
How can you declare the top 25 Youtube videos of 2010 when we till have over 2 months of teh year left, someone could mak ethe greatest Youtube video of all time tomorrow and it would not be considered the best for this year.
bjtalbot
October 21, 2010 at 12:49pm
I have to agree with you. I normally don't nitpick people's "Top Whatever Lists", but you should have probably posted this near the end of 2010 or in the beginning of 2011.
TheMurph
October 22, 2010 at 8:31am
I mean, the headline could be "Best Videos of 2010... So Far," but that's not really my choice. ;)
sweetjeebus
October 21, 2010 at 1:06pm
Agreed also, but Murph is probably the weakest writer for MaximumPC. What did you expect?
sweetjeebus
October 22, 2010 at 9:01am
What did you hope listing my member signup date would accomplish? I couldn't remember my old password after building a new machine, so I made a new one. I have subscribed to the magazine and been a member of this site for years. BTW it looks pathetic when you post on your own articles so much. Write them and leave the comments for the readers. You defend yourself too much in the comment section. We will write what feel. Don't get pissy about it Murph! I don't hate you, I just like the other writers better :p
TheMurph
October 22, 2010 at 9:10am
I'll answer your serious question: I reply in the comments section because I think it's kind of nice that authors/editors do engage readers with whatever comments they have. We don't live in some kind of ivory tower; you should feel free to ask questions and express opinions knowing that yes, Virginia, we're paying attention to what you say here. And, sometimes, we'll jump in to correct a statement / offer additional insight / occasionally be funny, et cetera.
If you think that's lame, I'm sorry.
Anyway, I think you're just a troll account given the recency of your signup combined the email address you've used to "resubscribe" to the site. But that's fine. I have thick skin. In fact, as long as you keep it non-profane, you can tell me that I'm the site's worst writer in every single article I write. Consider that a free tip -- doesn't bother me a bit.
Fair warning though: There's a pretty thin line between criticism and trolling. Try not to cross into the latter, eh?
