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  • A Blog of Ice and Embroidery

    With all the violence, sex, and violent sex happening on Game of Thrones, it’s easy to miss some of the small details about the…

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  • How German Sounds Compared to Other Languages

    In this video people pronounce words in French, English, Italian, Spanish and German to illustrate the contrast between the languages. A word like butterfly…

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  • Chair Hugs For Facebook B-day Wishes

    Ad agency Lew’Lara\TBWA and Outback Steakhouse in Brazil have come together to bring us the Outback B-Day Chair. The birthday boy or girl is…

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  • We Didn’t Start The Viral: 8 Years of YouTube Gold

    Remember Badger Badger? How about Numa Numa? If these questions sound like nonsense, clearly you’re not a big YouTube fan. Either that or you’re…

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  • Kamehameha-ing Is The New Planking In Japan

    (And just FYI, baguetting is the new planking in the US.) When Japanese teenagers aren’t busy making their foreheads look like bagels, they’re apparently being really awesome. Schoolgirls in Japan are posting photos of themselves doing Kamehameha attacks and other moves from the popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball. And these aren’t just pictures of people standing around pretending to shoot energy blasts. The students are staging entire anime battles, with one person posing as the attacker while everyone else jumps backward at precisely the right moment. Snap the picture, and suddenly it looks like the whole group has been blasted through the air by some invisible superpower. AMAZING. The photo craze took off in Japan in March 2013, with the most famous version becoming known as Makankosappo, a reference to Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon attack from Dragon Ball. On March 25, a Japanese student posted a group photo on Twitter showing her classmates apparently being sent flying by a powerful energy blast. The picture spread rapidly, inspiring other students to create their own gravity-defying scenes. (And just FYI, baguetting is the new planking in the US.) When Japanese teenagers aren’t busy making their foreheads look like bagels, they’re apparently being really awesome. Schoolgirls in Japan are posting photos of themselves doing Kamehameha attacks and other moves from the popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball. And these aren’t just pictures of people standing around pretending to shoot energy blasts. The students are staging entire anime battles, with one person posing as the attacker while everyone else jumps backward at precisely the right moment. Snap the picture, and suddenly it looks like the whole group has been blasted through the air by some invisible superpower. AMAZING. The photo craze took off in Japan in March 2013, with the most famous version becoming known as Makankosappo, a reference to Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon attack from Dragon Ball. On March 25, a Japanese student posted a group photo on Twitter showing her classmates apparently being sent flying by a powerful energy blast. The picture spread rapidly, inspiring other students to create their own gravity-defying scenes. j-cast.com+1 The trend became so popular that Capcom USA, the company behind Street Fighter, even launched a Hadouken photo contest in April 2013. That’s right. Pretending to blast your friends across a schoolyard became an actual competition. What a time to be alive. The trend became so popular that Capcom USA, the company behind Street Fighter, even launched a Hadouken photo contest in April 2013. That’s right. Pretending to blast your friends across a schoolyard became an actual competition. What a time to be alive.

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  • Make Your Own Shetland Ponies Music Video

    So what have you been doing at work all day? If your answer is “actually working” then obviously you haven’t come across the Pony…

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  • Couple Is Addicted To… Coffee Enemas?

    In news that will make you say WTF and then get really sad, married couple Mike and Trina are addicted to coffee enemas. What’s…

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  • The 12 Memes of Christmas

    Forget that stupid outdated song about gifting birds and servants—from now on we’re singing the 12 Memes of Christmas instead. Mashable created an awesome…

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  • Rewind YouTube Style 2012

    YouTube takes a look back at the most popular videos of the year in this tribute video. It features some of YouTube’s biggest stars…

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  • Maybe You CAN Simply Walk Into Mordor

    Everyone knows that one does not simply walk into Mordor. But Kerry Shawcross and Chris Demarais of Rooster Teeth decide to give it a…

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  • Extraneous Lyrics 2012

    If you’ve ever criticized pop songs for their use of exceedingly simple vocabulary then here’s a music video you might enjoy. OkaySamurai has put…

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  • 3D Illusions That Will Make Your Brain Hurt

    This video by artist and suspected wizard Brusspup starts off by showing you what appears to be a 3D object sitting on a piece…

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