This morning, an Ohio grand jury indicted Matthew Cordle—the drunk driver who released a YouTube video last week confessing that he'd killed 61-year-old Vincent Canzani—on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide.
Vincent Canzani was a 61-year-old Navy submarine veteran living in Ohio. Divorced with two daughters, he was an amateur photographer and a cigar connoisseur who'd just recently started working part-time at his favorite tobacco shop, the Tinder Box, in Columbus. Around three in the morning on Saturday, June 22, Vincent…
Here's the premise: Beloved abolitionist Harriet Tubman, while enslaved, turns the tables on her "massa" one night by graciously accepting his normally unwanted sexual advances in an effort to blackmail him and earn her freedom. What could go wrong with that bit of comedy?
The PRISM revelations continue to reverberate throughout the online world, reaching down into the bowels of Gawker Media's ad-slingers.
Look at this amazing video of some kind of demon bursting out of a manhole in New York today. And it would be so much more amazing if this citizen journalist had simply held his or her phone horizontally instead of vertically. Your viral video should not be a narrow strip surrounded by the void.
DreamWorks Animation just purchased AwesomenessTV, the pop culture YouTube network that channels the soul of fourteen year olds and is curated in neon. This is the first time a major media company has purchased a YouTube network.
You know that "Harlem Shake" thing your friends on Facebook are just now discovering? Well, it was dead for a minute, but now it's back.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about the bewildering fall of J.C. Penney, a $17-jean store named after a small denomination of legal tender that tried to rebrand itself as a fancy boutique by refusing to put items "on sale."
Beauty Gurus: YouTube is lousy with them.
The fallout from the low-budget Innocence of Muslims YouTube video continues, incredibly. Egyptian judge Hassouna Tawfiq has just ordered that YouTube be blocked for 30 days in Egypt over the video, which was directed by a softcore porn director and portrayed Muhammed as a murderous child molester. The Egyptian courts …
Earlier today, Mariah Carey posted almost three minutes of herself listening to herself (specifically her rendition of "O Come, All Ye Faithful") and rambling over the blaring music about celebrating Christmas in February. In the YouTube clip, she shows off a Christmas tree recently purchased in Connecticut, a roaring…
Almost two years after beating a stunned and unresponsive suspect in a public park, three Connecticut cops were finally placed on "desk duty" yesterday after footage of the attack had been made public.
Watch this video of a truck full of cows crashing and rolling over in front of oncoming traffic. See how the cows tumble over each other and then quickly get back up? Watch it again. See how the cows try to act all cool and nonchalant? "Nothing to see here," say the cows. "Keep walking."
With "Gangnam Style" only days away from becoming the first YouTube video to reach one billion views (and potentially triggering the end of the world), YouTube has released its annual look back at the year that was, and it probably wouldn't surprise you to learn that it pays major homage to the K-pop phenomenon.
"Gangnam Style," Korean megastar Psy's infectious "Party Rock Anthem" clone, just became the Internet's most viewed video of all time. This morning, it reached approximately 805 million views on YouTube, beating out the former champ, Justin Bieber's "Baby," which held the old top spot with approximately 804 million…
Today you will sit down with your family or your friends and you will tell them what you are thankful for. It's a Thanksgiving tradition, and a good one — we should all be thankful for having roofs over our heads and food to eat (if we do) and for even being able to participate in a holiday called Thanksgiving in the…
Already one of the most popular music video on YouTube, K-Pop star Psy's "Gangnam Style" is now officially YouTube's most liked video of all time.
Twitter user @a_girl_irl posted this clip of Isaac Aguigui doing a self-proclaimed "terrible lip sync."
On June 19, a YouTube user by the name of "CapitalTrigga" uploaded a video of a gang of middle school students harassing bus monitor Karen Klein. He sent links to local news stations, and school authorities, according to a Reddit thread he posted in soon after. Just a couple days later, thanks to popular posts on…
