YouTube Rentals

It's now $2.99 to rent Rebecca Black's Friday video for 72 hours.

Savage & Miller At Google Headquarters

Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller visited Google headquarters for a lengthy discussion on the origins of the It Gets Better Project.

(Tipped by JMG reader Dave)

Randall Sells Out

Shades of the Sassy Best Friend. Randall's YouTube fans are split on this development, of course.

Dick Coughlan - It's Getting Better

Another classic from YouTube's rant king.

The Queen Of Poe's Law

The young woman whose "God Punished Japan" video rocketed around the world yesterday, has confessed that she is actually an atheist troll.

The woman, with the username TamTamPamela, uploaded a video in the days after last week's massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami, claiming the disaster was "God literally waking people up and saying "You are going to hell" However, she was met with such a hostile response - including threats of death and rape (and even had her phone number and address published in some forums) - that she has gone into hiding. Other, less hard-line, wits decided to wage a war of food on her - getting non-stop pizzas delivered to her home. And well-known atheist Richard Dawkins even posted the original video on his website, but did so without providing a comment. A follow-up video in which tamtampamela admits she is a maker of troll videos did nothing to stem the flow of invective directed at her - one blogger encouraged people to "send her a turd" in the mail.

Aside from her superb acting skills, which took in almost everybody unaware of her YouTube history (myself included), TamTamPamela vividly demonstrated Poe's Law, which states that no satire of religious fundamentalism, no matter how offensive or outrageous, can be distinguished from the actual whackadoodles who believe such nonsense.

Boston Pops Announces Judy Garland YouTube Sing-Along "National Choir"

The Boston Pops writes us today to invite JMG readers to participate in a Judy Garland tribute. Post a YouTube clip of yourself singing Over The Rainbow and you may be featured in their "national choir collage" to be played at Boston Pops performances all this season.

To pay respect to the shared cultural heritage of the American Songbook, the Boston Pops is asking for video submissions of fans singing “Over the Rainbow” for inclusion in a video collage to be shown at Boston Pops performances throughout the season. Voted number one on the RIAA and NEA’s “Songs of the Century” list, Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” is an American Songbook selection that unites generations and ties the 2011 Spring Pops Season together—from the Opening Night Judy Garland tribute to the finale “Triple Crown” performance celebrating America’s Heartland. The signature Boston Pops sing-along has long been an audience favorite, so this year the orchestra is opening the sing-along to a national choir. Participants of all ages can submit video of themselves singing “Over the Rainbow,” by adding a video to YouTube and emailing a link and contact info to overtherainbow@bso.org. Videos will be featured on the Boston Pops YouTube channel, on the Boston Pops website, and at Boston Pops performances throughout the season. All video submissions are due by Saturday, April 26, 2011.

There's more than a few of you that I'd love to see do this.

Liberty University Choir Covers Gregory Brothers' The Bed Intruder Song

The weekend the choir at the Jerry Fawell-founded Liberty University covered The Bed Intruder Song as part of their holiday program. Bee-zarre. Aside from the oddity of a Christian university covering a song in which an openly gay man complains about the attempted rape of his sister, they actually do a pretty funny job of it. However, note the replacement of "raping" with "taking." And don't even try to tell me that conductor isn't family.

YouTube's Top Ten Of 2010

And the winner is the Gregory Brothers' remix of openly gay hero-to-sisters everywhere, Antoine Dobson.

Real Or Not Real?

For a couple of weeks I've been following the YouTube channel of a user calling himself "JesseTheStraightGuy." Jesse says he's a high school student who has successfully completed an unnamed "ex-gay" program. In this latest clip, he drops the n-word and refers to fellow students as "fags" and "fag-enablers," all while declaring that he's "not sick anymore." It's all so over the top, I can't even tell if it's for real.

Pomplamoose For Hyundai

My favorite YouTube band landed a commercial.

A Sunday Prayer For YouTube Users

Lucifer apparently lives on YouTube. And here all this time we thought it was JMG! Mekka-lekka-hi, mekka-hiney-ho!

Antoine Dodson On George Lopez

The fame of YouTube star Antoine Dodson continue to grow.

Dancing For Gender Equality

What What Unplugged

Samwell's silly What What (In The Butt) remains one of the biggest viral hits on YouTube, garnering over 29M views to date and a cover version on South Park. Below he performs an acoustic version with Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age, who opines: "What What (In The Butt) is not only a question, but it needs an answer. And the answer is: Let's do it in the butt, OK."

(Tipped by JMG reader Jack)

One-Man Pokemon Acappella Band

Danny Fong, a 21 year-old from Saskatchewan, makes acappella tracks using his voice to create the instruments as well. Very cool stuff.

YouTubers On Dr. George Rekers

Rock For Equality Named Finalist In YouTube DoGooder Video Contest

Rock For Equality's amazing clip about Social Security discrimination, which I posted here several weeks ago, has been named a finalist in the YouTube DoGooders Non-Profit Video Awards. Instructions on how to vote are below and here, followed by Rock For Equality's stunning clip.