The Best News Bloopers of 2013
With a DVR in every home and a YouTube account in every computer, it's become impossible for news bloopers to go unnoticed.
The Year in Weird Crime Stories
When people think of weird crime stories, they think of Florida. And that's fair—the strange Southern state has certainly earned the right to call itself (or be called) the Stupid Criminal Capital of the World. But to say Florida has a monopoly on dumb criminals does a great disservice to other idiot states, like Ohio…
Here's to the Freak Show: A Video Mixtape of 2013's Trash TV
People eat, fuck, say, and do weird shit and I live for watching them do all of it (and more) on TV. Above is a megamix of some of my favorite ridiculous, disgusting, hilarious, shady, inane, nonsensical, and Vera Farmiga-freaking moments of the year in television. I hope you enjoy it as much as the Basketball Wives…
The Best Things We Read in 2013
This morning, we told you about our favorite things that we wrote in 2013. As it turns out, other things were written in 2013. Good things, even! Here are our favorites—from reported articles in respected magazines to perfect single tweets; from novels to personal blog posts.
Why 2013 Was Hip-Hop’s “Faggot” Spring
"I'll be honest, I really wanted to win the Best Rap Video, but this Moonman right here stands for a lot more," the rapper Macklemore said earlier this year, holding the MTV Video Music Awards "Best Video With a Social Message" trophy. The honor was for the video accompanying his gay-equality anthem "Same Love," a…
The Best Gawker Posts of 2013
Our best work here at Gawker is not always our most popular. Sometimes those two indicia—popularity and quality—are negatively correlated, and sometimes they're aligned. It's a crapshoot. Below, you will find the a list of the best stuff we came up with over the past 12 months. It's a grab-bag of searing criticism,…
The Year in Mass Shootings
Since 1968, at least 1.4 million Americans have been killed by guns—more than all the U.S.'s accumulated war dead in that same period. Any way you look at it, 2013 was another killer year for arms manufacturers and armed bullies.
The Least Important Writers of 2013
With our most gracious and endearing apologies, we now present to you, in alphabetical order, the 22 Least Important Writers of 2013. Please enjoy, if possible.
The Year in Viral Will Make You Cry
Internet historians will no doubt look back at 2013 as the year we finally reached peak hyperbole.
A Very Special Holiday Letter from the Machines
What follows is a year-end holiday letter from the Machines.
Ten Movies I Loved But Didn't Write About This Year
Sometimes during the course of a year, pop cultural objects end up slipping through Gawker's cracks. Sometimes I see a movie late. Sometimes I don't have a whole review's worth of a response in me. Sometimes I need a minute to digest, and then once that minute passes, it feels like I'm too late. Sometimes it's really…
The Year in Hard Times
In 2013, we heard true stories from lots of people who were, to varying degrees, going through hard times. Military veterans. Workers at various low-wage jobs. Unemployed people. Let's remember a few of the year's most memorable true stories.
The 100 Most Popular Gawker Stories of 2012; or, What Discerning Internet Readers Clicked On The Most
Royal boobs, sex tapes, tragedies, gay rights, creepy stories about the underbelly of the internet, Jay-Z being sweet to an old lady: this is how we made the dog hug the cow. Here's to 2013.
Violence in Movies? What Violence in Movies?: The Year in Film
When we remember 2012 in a few years and then a few more, what about this year in cinema will we retain? The death of film culture and then its resurrection via discursive lighting rod that Django Unchained proved itself to be, out of the gate? (Or the divisive Beasts of the Southern Wild, for that matter?) The…
I Can't Stop Looking at These 2012 Photos of Some Super-Cool Dude Named Barack Obama
Barack Obama is a master of the casually revealing photo. For months, you'll see the President of the United States blocking out a stiff rectangular space behind all those podiums, seeming a little vulnerably gangly in one of his slightly roomy grey or blue suits, alternating among a familiar reserve of strained…
58 Things 2012 Was 'the Year of'
As 2012 draws to a close, it's very important to figure out what, exactly, 2012 was the year of. The dragon? The election? The Olympics? New practical thermoelectric power generators? To help figure it out we've assembled 58 articles explaining why 2012 was the year of...
Boobs, Feuds, Freakouts and Fahts: 2012 In Trashy TV
Above is a five-minute clip reel of many of the things that aired on TV this year that made me almost pee myself. These are over-the-top and entirely out of context, so if you want a little more background, you can check out the original posts (or, in the few cases that a clip was not yet posted on this site, the…
The Story Behind the Stories You Loved This Year: Jay-Z Meets an Adorable Old Lady on the Subway
What happens behind the scenes at Gawker? We know you ask yourselves this question every single hour of every single day, and we don't blame you. We are fascinating. Sometimes we order sandwiches for lunch, and sometimes we order burritos. Sometimes we listen to music while we blog, and sometimes we do not. Sometimes…
What Were the Year's Best Podcast Episodes?
You're all too forthcoming with your BEST OF 2012 OR FIGHT ME ✌ Spotify playlists, but can you offer us something actually useful, like a working list of podcast episodes that were pretty great this year?
The Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012 Longreads
Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss. With that in mind, we've collected our favorite Gawker longreads from 2012. No one's really working this week, so please…
