5: YouTube

Could I just say that I despise YouTube? The other day, my friend Jim was telling me about a funny episode of Family Guy that I needed to watch. So I said to myself "That sounds like a laugh." and decided to go and look for it on YouTube (after being unable to locate it on Hulu). I typed in the name of the episode into the YouTube search engine and clicked on the video that looked most like what I was looking for only to find that this was not the episode of family guy that I was looking for, but rather was the remixed version. Some kid with adobe premier apparently thought that Family Guy wasn't funny enough on it's own so decided to help them out by adding a bunch of skips and lame techno music. Really freaking hilarious, you made Stewie say that he likes balls. The really crazy thing is that this isn't a rare occurrence. And each one of these remixes have like 100,000 hits and dozens of inane comments from equally stupid people that read something like "rofl!! toooooooooooooo funny!!!!!!! X-D"

I have trouble deciding which YouTube video I hate more, the remix or the random compilation of a bunch of douchebags doing something douchey. I really can't stand either and both really make me worry about what is passing for entertainment now and days. Also, YouTube has shown me that there is a fairly alarming number of stupid people in the world these days and I find that really troubling.

Alright, now having said that, I love YouTube. When you can actually find what you're looking for, it brings so much joy into one's life. Where else can you find a fat kid pretending to duel with a lightsaber? Or a horrified cat being forced to sky dive? Or a really stupid kid trying to fly with a makeshift jet pack made from bottle rockets that of course don't make him fly but instead start exploding on his back? Or even a surprised kitten? Speaking of which...