The Parade Magazine of the internet.
A popular debunking of a particularly nasty 5-Minute Crafts video, basically Stupid Food Tricks. Bleach on strawberries!
Sarah Jeong noted recently on Twitter this trend has even taken over instructions on candle-pouring - for example, the dangerous idea of filling candles with pine needles/cones.
2: I can't watch that video now, but is this proof that 5-Minute Crafts is an insidious plot to kill us all off with dangerous cooking and cleaning tips?
for example, the dangerous idea of filling candles with pine needles/cones.
That sounds as if it could be very exciting.
That sounds as if it could be very exciting.
Pop rocks, but for candles!
As long as it keeps the kids from starting on poetry.
I feel like I understood this kind of garbage better when it was something that could be purely machine-assembled, like the terrible print-on-demand shirt businesses that lead to the potential existence of "Anal Queen" baby onesies, or word-salad fake-news articles (and entire fake "local" newspaper websites), or maybe terrifying rendered animation videos, but these videos have to actually be produced! There's a lot more human labor per second of garbage, and I wonder why that works.
US/DE/SE clicks per ruble at $400/month has a market clearance above zero. People love funny/empowering/fainltly positive videos, and in the 21st century context-free stuff is normal. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inside-a-ukrainian-troll-farm
This seems linked to those bizarre stop-motion recipe videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjNZB20U7wI
That's clearly not a recipe that anyone's going to follow, it's some other form of entertainment. And bizarrely compelling -- it starts out not super crazy but then just keeps going.
I seem to recall that Heebie posted a parody dessert making video here many years ago (can't seem to find it now). Maybe she could sell it to the Russians.
I think that was spring 2010. I bet it is embarrassing now.
This thread is making me want to make little cheese cake cupcakes with vanilla wafers for crusts and cherry pie filling on top.
Making fun of our horrible governor's weirdo girlfriend! (Actually, I don't know if they're still together.)
Didn't she put acorns in a cake or something insane like that?
I mean, that's very TheSoul of her, for 2010.
Even the company name, TheSoul, sounds like algorithm-garble.
As decoration! with corn nuts! For a Kwanzaa cake! With a can of apple pie filling dumped on it! And disgusting looking cinnamon icing! It was a war crime.
Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2iWTJqo98
God, that cake really is gross. I think the original showed her eating a bite and looking like her eyes were bulging with restraint, IIRC. The link in 19 cuts out right before that.
I think you may be remembering another old Sandra Lee post here -- she mixed some horrible cocktail and then clearly had to choke it down. Maybe Ogged posted that one?
She's probably working for Putin now.
I hope he's emotionally devastated.
I feel only robust manly sorrow.
Anyway, doing something regrettable with a can of cream of mushroom soup is a part of the culture from which I sprung.
Plus, there have been shortages of those fried onions in a can since Stalin died.
We haven't reached 40 comments yet, but since this thread seems to be quiet, I'll go off topic:
1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is great and you should definitely see it if you haven't already.
2. I love that in a brief scene near the end, the song that Leonardo DiCaprio's character drunkenly sings along to is Snoopy versus the Red Baron*, which apparently peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 list in 1966.
*I vaguely remember that song from my childhood. I think it was on one of my mom's records.
Did your mom really have the same record?
Much of the content seems to similar to the stuff in that James Bridle article (which ISTR was also posted here):
https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
And presumably the political content is more of the same, a way of keeping power sweet/on side, or both.