The best things on the internet in 2019
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Facebook is radicalizing our moms. Instagram is exploiting children. YouTube is a nightmare. Twitter is the “hell site.” And TikTok is “a potential counterintelligence threat.” Yet we keep coming back.
Why? Not for the trolls or the discourse or the dog-piling, but because there’s gold buried in these digital hills. Yes, you often have to dig to find it, but, if you curate your timeline just right, you’ll be greeted every morning with some bit of hilarious or touching or provocative oddball content that could never have existed in the pre-internet age. Is that enough for us not to quietly long for all the computers to combust simultaneously? No, but it makes being glued to our screens a bit more enjoyable.
Below, you’ll find 10 of our favorite things we saw on the internet in 2019. Yes, there are feral hogs, but there’s also alligators, aliens, remixes, and plenty of schadenfreude hop-hop-hoppin’ onto that timeline.
10. Celebrities who use social media for good
Social media can be, to put it frankly, goddamn insufferable. At times it seems like an endless wasteland of artifice and #ads, carefully constructed personalities in which even the quirks are manufactured—and that’s especially true when it comes to celebrities. Perhaps that’s why the odd moments of genuine authenticity can prove so delightful, as they often did this year. In that arena, Sophie Turner reigned supreme (and not just as Queen in the North), from her unguarded reactions to Game Of Thrones episodes to her completely natural response to being shown on the jumbotron at a hockey game. But she wasn’t alone. Glenn Close shared her “spirit guardian” and some thoughts on Notre Dame. Sir Anthony Hopkins played piano with a kitty-cat in his lap. Sam Neill introduced us to his pet duck. Chrissy Teigen, Twitter master, coined the phrase “pussy ass bitch president” and managed to use it in a kid-going-back-to-school tweet, which is next-level shit. And never forget: Ice-T supports you (and The Irishman). [Allison Shoemaker]
9. The animals prepare to overthrow humanity
Even as we’ve run our natural world down to the point of near collapse, humanity has grown complacent around the animals we so foolishly consider beneath us. In 2019, though—perhaps sensing that the time had come to reclaim the Earth through a great rebellion—small acts of defiance began popping up all over the place. The internet documented a wave of blanket-annihilating dogs and witnessed the powerful alliance of a toddler and warrior bird; it also showed a chimp, the species best positioned to overthrow all of us, learning to use social media and a capuchin, probably having read some simian revolutionary manifesto, breaking out of a zoo enclosure.
Each one of these examples shows that the animals have finally had enough of our shit. Knowing that humans can no longer be trusted to reign over the planet, they’ve come together to smash apart our rule with paws and talons, weird little hands and gnashing teeth. In light of this, maybe we were too quick to mock the guy who defended the right to own assault rifles as the most appropriate way to fend off the 30 to 50 feral hogs just waiting to swarm into backyards across the globe, abducting children to raise within their ascendant piggy societies. [Reid McCarter]
8. Trump repeatedly gets owned for using copyrighted material
If Donald Trump proved anything in 2019, it’s that, while he apparently can’t be held accountable by our institutional checks and balances, he at least can be consistently burned by our copyright laws. A small consolation prize, we know, although seeing as how Trump craves any and all celebrity affirmation, it was still pretty satisfying to see just how many people—from R.E.M. to Warner Bros. to freakin’ Nickelback—want absolutely, positively (not to mention legally) nothing to do with our craven, soulless jackass-in-chief. What’s more, telling Trump to get his spray-tanned hands off one’s original content appears to be a pretty damn good business strategy, so in some ways, profiteering off his gutless attempts to co-opt someone else’s work is a cherry on top of the whole thing.
Of course, it’s never a total loss for Trump: HBO only issued a couple “tsk-tsk” statements after Team Trump made Game Of Thrones-finale-weak use of some Westeros memes. And, after all, who needs Michael Stipe’s balladry when you can get the star of Death Stalkers And The Warriors From Hell to make on offer on Greenland? [Andrew Paul]
7. Succession’s theme song gets remixed, meme’d
Memes invariably boost a piece of art’s popularity, even if they don’t always frame that art in a light that suits it (just look at the Marriage Story memes). Consider HBO’s Succession lucky, then, that its defining meme didn’t pervert the characters or story so much as it celebrated its stately, mischievous theme song. In concert with the show’s incredible second season, fans flexed the big mood of composer Nicholas Britell’s piano-and-string-forward theme by grafting it onto the opening credits of several iconic series, as well as clips from Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison, which, if you think about it, shares more than a few themes with the show.
Even better, though, were the remixes. HBO sponsored its own from Pusha T, but we were more taken by Demi Adejuyigbe’s hilarious riff, as well as this dude who recreated it in Mario Paint. Britell even enjoyed a victory lap with “L-to-the-O-G,” the transcendently embarrassing rap song Kendall performs for his pops, but it’s that original theme we can’t stop looping. Like Kermit, we’re still dancing. [Randall Colburn]
6. The internet unites in a shared desire to uncover Area 51’s secrets
Generally speaking, everyone on the internet seems to absolutely hate each other. And yet, in rare moments that reinforce our bonds as a species, we sometimes manage to put our squabbles to the side in order to share in the sorts of missions that require a truly united front: Like, for example, figuring out exactly what the fuck’s been going on in Area 51 for decades. The idea, which started as a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop Us All,” gained incredible traction very quickly both for the potency of its message (“If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets,” the original post reads. “Lets see them aliens.”) and for the inspirational spirit of overcoming the state through the strength of mass action.
Sure, the whole thing fizzled out due to warnings not to actually go through with the plan and the inevitable transformation of a good joke into a shitty corporatized party, but for a few short months the internet came together as a sort of gestalt Mulder, just wanting to believe. Even though Area 51 has managed to hold onto its secrets for yet another year, 2019 showed the first cracks in its alien-alloy armor and reinforced what we can accomplish as a people when we come together to enact great change (or spread alien memes). [Reid McCarter]
5. The New York Times’ Bret Stephens snaps after being called a “bedbug”
Hopefully New York Times columnist Bret Stephens had his fainting couch handy back in August, because the writer absolutely gave himself the vapors after learning he had been called a “bedbug” on Twitter, in one of the most entertaining self-owns of the year. A little tweet from a mostly unknown university professor, Dave Karpf, involved a light joke about a bedbug infestation in the Times’ newsroom—Karpf suggested it was a metaphorical reference to Stephens, ha ha—received nine likes and zero retweets, and would have quickly been swallowed up by the ever-moving scrum of Twitter. But Stephens, confirming he is 100% that guy who goes searching for any mention of his own name online, sent an email to Karpf and his university provost, trying to get him in trouble for daring to make the slightest of insults impugning the aristocratic name of Bret Stephens.
And it just kept getting better: Stephens quit Twitter in a huff, saying the insult was the “worst of humanity,” comparing Karpf to a Nazi, and even going on TV to bemoan his victimization. All this from a man who makes a living railing against “PC culture” and the silencing of controversial voices. Pot, meet world’s thinnest-skinned kettle. [Alex McLevy]
4. Chance The Snapper
In a far distant future, the bards will sing songs of Chance The Snapper. We have Block Club Chicago to thank for the name of the five-foot alligator who set up residence in the the city’s Humboldt Park Lagoon over the summer. Chicagoans followed his exploits breathlessly—swimming, further swimming, evading capture by Chicago Herpetological Society member Alligator Bob, further evading capture, being captured, and looking adorable—for one perfect week.
It all came to a heady end when Florida animal control expert Frank Robb swooped in to nab the little guy, an accomplishment that earned Robb the chance to throw out the first pitch at a Cubs game, presumably because the reptilian Chance isn’t much of a baseball player. Then our little friend was off to a new home in Florida, a much better home for him, save the one he’ll always have in our hearts. Granted, he should never have been there in the first place—don’t keep alligators as pets, you morons—but we’ll nevertheless treasure the time we had with him in our lives. Though not perhaps as much as his namesake. [Allison Shoemaker]
3. Man crosses legs, crushes balls
Sometimes it’s that simple: A man swings one leg over the other, then silently cries out in pain as, through some physiological miscalculation, his thighs crush his testicles. It’s relatable, honestly; the man’s profane grimace, as well the way he swiftly pulls himself together, is funny because this happens and we’re just so grateful that, this time at least, it didn’t happen to us. Is it lowbrow to giggle at such misfortune? Of course, but there’s no shame in admitting that sometimes we’re all Homer watching Hans Moleman’s “Man Getting Hit By Football.” [Randall Colburn]
2. Amazing high school production of Alien finds national audience
No offense to the people putting in good, hard work on the stage of every other high school in the world, but none of them are doing anything as audaciously awesome as North Bergen High School’s theatrical adaptation of Alien. Over the course of a weekend in March, photos and videos of the show—and its phenomenal homemade sets and costumes—took the internet by storm and eventually attracted the attention of original Alien star Sigourney Weaver, who revealed that both director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Walter Hill had given the show their respective stamps of approval. Scott later donated $5,000 to the school, and Weaver visited New Jersey to meet the young cast and help introduce an encore performance of the show. Eventually, a full video of the production was posted online, giving all of us a chance to see just how ridiculously cool the whole thing was. Seriously, the lo-fi chest-burster scene and the eventual reveal of the alien itself may be some of the best things a high school drama club has ever done (again, no offense to the people whose otherwise solid productions don’t go viral). [Sam Barsanti]
1. Cameo pranksters
Cameo got off to a rough start. The service, which allows the unwashed masses to pay celebrities for shout-outs and birthday messages, was the subject of much controversy when the likes of Brett Favre and Andy Dick were tricked into spewing coded anti-semitism late last year. Thankfully, the app seems to have gotten a handle on that kind of behavior, making room for an altogether less odious band of pranksters. Just a few weeks ago, for example, the world watched Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath deliver a breakup message to “Brayden” from his soon-to-be-ex Cheyenne. The whole thing turned out to be a prank, but that doesn’t diminish the daffy sweetness of McGrath’s clip, in which McGrath tells Brayden that Cheyenne just “wants to be friends right now, bro” and that “hopefully I can see you backstage, give you a high-five someday.”
The innate humor of paying relatively irrelevant celebrities to say strange, offbeat things for which they most assuredly aren’t suited isn’t lost on the internet. Comedian Brandon Wardell, for example, was the first to show us how Chris Hansen will call people a pedophile for $50 when he bought a shout-out from the former To Catch A Predator host.
More rambunctious are Stefan Heck and John Cullen, who’ve devoted an entire segment on their Blocked Party podcast to Cameo hijinks. Not only did they hire Pauly Shore to record an anti-circumcision PSA, but they got O.J. Simpson pal Kato Kaelin to issue an apology for it. Comedians Nick Ciarelli and Bradford Evans, meanwhile, hired Arli$$ star Robert Wuhl to provide some kind words for a 10-year who they say is bullied for “loving Arli$$,” then paid a bodybuilder to pretend to be that bully. (Full disclosure: Ciarelli has written for our sister site, Clickhole.)
Truly, this is the golden age of Cameo, and it won’t last forever. As Heck and Cullen noted in a recent Blocked Party episode, the celebs are getting wiser to what’s a bit and what isn’t, noting in their profiles that they’ll be sticking to “positive messages” only. As such, now is the time to bend a C-list celebrity to your own chaotic (but good-natured!) devices. [Randall Colburn]
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Is it me, or is this basically indistinguishable from the ‘Worst’ list?
You must be new to the internet.
In fairness, this is a site whose 2019 list of worst things on the Internet includes a photo of an egg but not “What Happened to Deadspin.” I understand the confusion.
It’s like that drawing. Is it a beautiful young woman, or an old crone?
Is it Yanny or Laurel…and, before you answer, Yanny isn’t a name!
Ah, who could forget that pink and green dress…
Can’t it be that pan-flute dude? You don’t know how it’s spelled!
a) it was presented as two WOMEN’S names
b) the internet knows his name is Yanni
1. I don’t remember that being specified anywhere. Or that it was even really names, that was just a general assumption.
2. I didn’t mean we didn’t know how the Greek mellow-music dude’s name was spelled; I meant we didn’t know how the version of the weird internet voice as heard by some people was spelled, not really, it was all sound.
but his name is pronounced “yah-knee” not “yeah-knee”
…and “the voice” sounded like it had an American accent, people with whom constantly mispronounce foreign names like that.
in the end they found it was “Laurel” after all and Yanny is not a word or a name or a mispronounced name
Yes, it’s an imagined sound, which reinforces none of the points you’ve been making in any way. The opposite, if anything.
Not only does it underline that it was clearly not the right one to begin with, that undermines the way the entire thing was reported (i.e., do you hear the “name” or “word” Laurel or Yanny). If it was “do you hear the nonsensical sound” Yanny then it would have been less schizophrenic.
Damn, you stole my comment. If anything, these might be even worse.
I don’t know, that Alien stage production is pretty fucking awesome.
Oh, I’m sure it is. I just meant the general tenor of both lists.Lizzo accidentally siccing her fans on some poor woman = very badGetting a celebrity to call a blameless individual a paedophile = Absolutely hilarious
the blameless individual was a friend. If it was someone he didn’t personally know or was just attacking it would be different.
I guess to bring it full circle, your original comment is basically indistinguishable from the internet.
It’s sort of like they wrote down the first 20 things they could remember running articles about this year and just split the list in half.But if you compare it with all the other “hilarious” meme content on AV Club in 2019, this stuff might actually be their best.
Know that if you ever have to say ‘Is it just me, or…’, it never is.I was secretly hoping for a bloodbath to break out at the Area 51 gathering. Maniac cops firing indiscriminately into crowds, tear gas, helicopters, rogue gangs of meth-fueled Hell’s Angels showing up to kick ass while yelling ‘THE FUCK IS A NARUTO?!’ as they do it, the whole bit.Oh well. Maybe next year.
I know, I don’t like the ‘Is it just me…’ construction either. But I was feeling the pressure of commenting first and I just panicked, OK?
NEIN!
And both lists could essentially be boiled down to “Here’s some stuff we saw on Twitter!”It’s amusing that a sight that does so much (justified, imo) hand wringing over the Disney monoculture is so slavishly devoted to the Twitter’s monoculture. I wouldn’t fault someone for reading these lists and wondering what happened to all the good websites.
The worst-of items were described with negative snark; these best-of items are described with positive snark. Duh!
Okay Baby Boomer
There is 1 exception on this list and that is the high school Alien play.
If that’s the Best then this year was even worse than I thought. I liked this whole Pets Playing D&D thread that starts here better than most of those.
And Hugh Grant dunking on Piers Morgan yesterday is what I’d have gone with for the celebrity section.
Um, excuse me, that cat is clearly playing the Storyteller system, not D&D.(adjusts glasses)
A star isn’t enough, I need to give you greater recognition.May your glasses never sit properly, so as to always give you an opportunity to adjust them, my friend. And may your nights be blessed by Cain… unless you roll werewolf in which case, I don’t know, something something wyrm.
Vampire all the way here. The friends I have who play tabletop RPGs all prefer Werewolf, though. I mostly just read the books as a teenager and have not had a chance to play beyond Troika’s Bloodlines, but I still love the mythology.
Ok, just read Pets play D&D, and thank you.
that looks lovely, thank you
I never rooted for the orcs before just this minute…
I’m a little disappointed that the Area 51 thing didn’t go a little further. Like we discovered aliens, but they’re lame. No special powers. They’ve only been here for like, two months. The government hasn’t told us about them because quite frankly, they’re embarrassing.
“That one’s Doris, and the other is Greg. No shit, those are their actual names. They’re really into Cool Whip and tic tac toe, and…yeah, let’s move on.”
“Yes, they all smell like that, and no, we haven’t figured out why.”
I’d love it. “There is other life out there. Unfortunately, it falls under the taxonomic category of ‘People of Wal-Mart’.”
“This one’s named Donald and he wants to be President.”
Werner Herzog did this in Wild Blue Yonder!
they’re like us but they have these permanent mustaches that help with balance somehow. they love white chocolate and early 2000s mumblecore movies
The Kids in the Hall had some thoughts on that…
That Chris Hansen video should’ve been way funnier.
Well, it should’ve been FUNNY.
Cameo is the best thing on the internet?
Word up!
I still want to know if that school production of Alien was inspired by “Moms, Lies, and Videotape,” the episode of Bob’s Burgers in which Tina imagines the sixth grade putting on a production of Alien:
When I first saw the video, I immediately contacted my wife to excitedly relay that some real kids did the Aliens play from Bob’s.
My favorite part is probably Jocelyn playing the Xenomorph. Her voice is just John Roberts doing a slightly ditzy version of Linda, but for some reason Jocelyn is one of my favorite recurring characters and that voice coming out of the alien was gold.
Absolutely. She was perfect for the alien.
Of course it was. Kids today have no original thoughts of their own.
I actually was thinking that I’d probably think that they’re even cooler if it turns out that the BB fans.
Yeah, that’s true.
When I was a precocious 15 year old in 1995, we put on RESERVOIR DOGS at a production night in my high school.It was ENTIRELY my original idea, probably due to the mescaline era we were in at the time.
I hope all the parents enjoyed the Like A Virgin discussion.
“Let me tell you what Like a Virgin is about. It’s all about this cutie who’s a regular hug machine. I’m talking morning day night afternoon, kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss.”“How many kisses is that?”“A LOT.”(Hold for cool parents’ laughter.)“So one day she meets this John Corbett son of a gun, and it’s like ‘whoa, baby.’ I mean this cat’s like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape – he’s got a mustache. She’s getting serious kiss action, but then she starts feeling something she ain’t felt since forever: feelings. Feelings. See, those feelings are reminding a hug machine what it was once like to be Virgin. Hence: like a Virgin.”
Yeah, they must’ve held all the n-words for the third act.
Bob’s Burgers was imagining a production of James Cameron’s Aliens (where Ripley used such a device), not Scott’s Alien, though.
Oh, you’re right–it’s completely different then.
Stephens quit Twitter in a huff, saying the insult was the “worst of humanity,” comparing Karpf to a Nazi, and even going on TV to bemoan his victimization. All this from a man who makes a living railing against “PC culture” and the silencing of controversial voices. In a just world, Bret Stephens will be asked about this in every interview until the end of time.
If the list is going to be this terrible you could have at least included the Woman yelling at Smudge meme.
That’s the best you could do? Well, good try anyway internet.
I’m probably not paying close enough attention but which of these was the dad from Friday Night Dinners involved in?
I’m sorry, but #6 – the “raid” on Area 51 is NOT one of the “best” things; it’s one of the Stupidest.First, I don’t know about you, but I *WANT* our government to have a super-duper-secret facility where it designs and tests the next generation of bleeding edge aerial weaponry. Not everything the government or the military does needs to be in public view, OK?And geez, if you’re going to rally a mob to storm a government facility, aren’t there better places for that? Like the internment camps holding immigrants? Why aren’t El Presidente’s enablers and toadies in Congress being protested every day? He’s slowly turning our country into a dictatorship – why aren’t we marching in the streets over that?
Even as a joke, it’s not particularly funny. I mean, the joke is, “Guys! Let’s storm Area 51 – as a joke! Here’s a map I made during study hall my actual job that I get paid for.” Maybe I’m just old.
Wat, you didn’t think the videos of people perfecting their “Naruto run” were absolutely hysteical?
I’m old, and I went to the fb page hosting the event to find stuff to shit on, but instead found a community of hilarious nihilists.The joke wasn’t really the storming, but the fact that they were all so incredibly lame that they would die in the attempt…but tthn it sort of metastasizes from there into this whole mythology about successive waves of Kyle’s and Karen’s and clapping cheeks in hell.I subscribed. Unfortunately, the raid event was the high point and it hasn’t been as fun since.
“First, I don’t know about you, but I *WANT* our government to have a super-duper-secret facility where it designs and tests the next generation of bleeding edge aerial weaponry. Not everything the government or the military does needs to be in public view, OK”What a weird thing to want! “Dear god: please protect mommy, and daddy, and give me a puppy, and let it snow so there’s no school, and also make sure the government has a secretive, hidden safe space to test its newest death technology away from the prying eyes of the public it ostensibly serves because what is even really the point of a representative, accountable government anyway.”
It’s not “the prying eyes of the public” that I’m worried about – it’s Russia and China. Do you really want our biggest geopolitical rivals knowing what military technology we’re working on, so they can copy it and figure out a way to defeat it? Really?
I don’t care. What exactly are you worried is going to happen if China or Russia sees what “we’re” working on?
People of Arab descent all over the world would like to be excluded from this narrative
Sophie Turner is peak social media. It’s like the universe turned “your twenties” into a famous person, gave her an equally famous best friend, and then let us all hear her pleasantly wine-drunk thoughts about her job. It’s glorious. Also glorious: Maisie Williams’ photo-essay for Vogue about the Game of Thrones wrap party. Blurry photos of her friends, taken by a drunk twentysomething with a very expensive camera, annotated with pure enthusiasm? We need more of that. I have no interest in watching Game of Thrones ever, but I’m glad it gave us those two. And Emilia Clarke. And Gwendolyn Christie. They just seem cool.
Her description of getting stoned in a bathtub with Maisie and rubbing each others’ faces with makeup brushes was delightful.
It might be my age, but whenever I hear anything about them I just want them to continue having happy lives. Hopefully they’ll be like Mark Hammill and Carrie Fisher, or like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing – a pair of celebrity eccentrics whose enduring affection for each other is way more interesting than most of the projects they appear in.
So is Ciarelli’s Bloomberg stuff a bit or what?
Sorry, Cinder. Maybe next year.Cinder?
CINDER?!
Yeah, all of these things suck, especially the stupid Area 51 thing. Is the writer of this article 13 years old?
Actual best of the internet 2019: – Bon Appetit YouTube channel- Baby Yoda memesThat’s pretty much it.
And…
You’re forgetting the God-awful idiots at deadspin quitting because they got told to stop lying and writing shit pieces about politics and to “stick to sports”. Definitely a Best thing on the Internet in 2019 moment.
not sure how Chance the Snapper is best of the internet. the internet helped build a groundswell of enthusiasm, but it was like a totally non-virtual alligator in a non-virtual park lagoon where non-virtual Chicagoans went and waited for a peek in real life. the fact that it was actually happening outside in our city is what made it so fun
You forgot Green Shirt Guy. That man is a national treasure!
TIL what that’s there’s something called Cameo that doesn’t involve cod pieces. I’ll forget about it in a minute or so.
Word up.
This feels very Buzzfeed-y, and not as AV Clubby as I’m comfortable with. Post about PWR BTTM if Jim Spanfeller or his goons are in the room.
When I was in college the musical theater guild performed a musical version of the whole star wars trilogy. I’ve got a dvd copy of a terrible recording of it, but I dunno if it’s online anywhere. It was all established showtunes with new lyrics, like “I’ve got the force right here”
Baby Yoda memes, obviously, but here were what made me laugh, cry happy tears, and feel inspired.
In no particular order:—Drag Race UK memesThis quip from The Vivienne: —The reaction to the corporatization of Pride.—This reaction to the announcement of the “Straight Pride” parade.—The Greta Thunberg Helpline which amazingly needs to be re-upped this week.—Cats! (NOT the movie or the musical. Actual cats.)—Joe Marler.—Discovering Flirty Dancing (which is being redone by Fox in the U.S. so it’s highly doubtful it will have any moments as amazingly uplifting and touching as these because we can’t have nice things.)
—The GoT memes, of which this was probably my favorite.—And, finally,this fan-edited super-trailer for the Skywalker Saga by Alec Seigel.
Cameo can be very good, especially when the voice of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid is involved Apparently this wasn’t “actually” thru Cameo, but he has a Cameo account and will do similar things if you give him money.
SPACEGHOST(sings): Oh my, I can’t believe my ears/I have waited for this moment for years!/ How can this be?/Andy Dick is gonna spew coded anti-Semitic diatribes for very little money at meeeee!
Best thing on the internet right now is my ability to stream the Korean television series “My Mister”. Think ‘Parasite’ but eight times longer, with a better director, better writer, better cinematographer and a better OST. It even stars the actor from Parasite! I class is as the best TV I’ve EVER seen. Thank you, internet!BTW, the actress is the singer IU in a ground-breaking performance.
Mark McGrath’s unfortunate plastic surgery is certainly the worst thing I’ve seen on the internet today. He looks like he’s wearing a mask of his face over his face, but not a good one.
The best thing I’ve seen on the internet this year is a video shot in Rio for a song by one of Michael Jackson’s nephews. Never heard of him before and haven’t heard anything about him since. Is he even real or just a hologram made of composites of the Jackson 5 that exists solely in this video? He seems to have only one song anywhere on the internet – and it’s this song on YouTube. Catchy choon …
Pretty much the only good things on the internet this year involved Nick Ciarelli and Brad Evans.
Trump or any other idiot can play REM or anything he wants at his white people meet and greets. The arenas and stadiums are responsible for paying the performing rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI etc.) Just like your local bar or pizza joint is supposed to do. Trump’s playlist during his campaign was leaning surprisingly hard on classic rock that was entirely British. Make of that what you will.
Y’all missed one. I give you No Life Shaq listening to “Free Bird” for the first time: