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Wow, there is definitely something wrong with THAT picture. Mike Sorrentino aka "The Situation" is gettin' PAID! According to TheYoungTurks he's supposedly going to earn up to $5,000,000 this year because of this idiotic show on MTV show called Jersey Shore. Personally I've never watched the show. Wait, let me correct that. The night the first episode aired I saw the first 10 minutes or so of the this really lame excuse for a television series as all the girls and guys were introduced and were hootin' and a hollarin' about the fact they were heading for "The Jersey Shore" and they were gonna meet hot ginos and hot girls etc. At that point I switched the channel. But it is apparently a big hit in the ratings. And The Young Turks are saying that Sorrentino is making some big bucks out of this and there's another story that he might be asked to appear on Dancing With The Stars. See this article: 'The Situation' adds 'Dancing Wit...

Okay, I am sort of dreading this video from the vlogbrothers as Hank Green, as a stated punishment is required to do a YouTube makeup tutorial. Yup, full on makup for Hank. First there's the prep work - shaving and preparing his canvas for the application of the make-up. Lol, at "So I'm going to start with my foundation..." I don't know how he kept a straight face. "What I'm going for is a district 12, smoky but sultry look." I'm going to include links to makeup on Amazon in case you want to capture the "Hank Green Signature Look". He starts with silver shimmer eye shadow I think the stuff he mentions next is Maybelline New York eye shadow , but I'm not 100 percent sure lol. All I can say is Wow, Hank is one fugly looking woman lol. But he did go through with this and you sorta gotta respect that. But of course, if you are more interested in the books he mentioned in this video than the, ahem, makeup tips, he talked about t...

Little Rocktard seems a little nervous as the Shaytards prepare for a church function. I think it's some kind of naming ceremony where the whole Shaytards clan gathers at their church and then comes back to Chez Carl (wasn't that clever? I used Chez which means "the home of" and rhymes with Shay - ok, well I thought it was clever lol), for some vittles. Have you seen the video that Shay mentions? It's called The Secret Life and I saw it yesterday because Charles Trippy also was watching it. I included it in my post about a few days ago about the CTFxC video called CTFxC: Home Again Finally, Free Trippy Music & The Secret Life so you can see the full cartoon, or go to CyberToons ' channel so you can sub to him and post any messages about the clip. I personally really liked it and the song does kinda stick with you. And it was interesting to see the various youtubers popping up in the video. But back to the Shaytards. I couldn't help but laugh ...

It's about time that Charles Trippy got a taste of his own medicine with that damn vuvuzela ! Alli Speed, his fiancee, wakes up a grumbly Charles for a change by blasting him with one of those horns for the World Cup. And it's Rush Week at the college Alli attends and there are a ga-zillion screaming girls all over the place. Then they all head off and go streaming by Alli & Charles yelling and whooping it up. I felt a little nervous for them myself that they may get trampled in the crowd. It's "Mid Day" where all the girls find out which sorority they've been accepted to so there's quite a bit of craziness on the campass. If you want to know more about what it's like to be a member of a sorority (I picture lots of pillows being tossed and then strip down for tickle fights, but that's probably just me), there are lots of books available about them. It think the pretty girl is one of Alli's classmates from when she was studying in Spa...

Another youtuber forced to respond to that article that came out a few days ago. Looks like Greg, aka mediocrefilms , is a little hot under the collar about it as well as PhillyD. To see the post where I mention the article see Article Out Says 10 YouTube Stars Making $100,000 A Year and to Phil DeFranco's response video is included in that Bradshaw's Blog post. I agree 100 percent with Greg & Phil on this topic. It's really none of our business what they earn by posting videos on YouTube and elsewhere, just as it's not your business what your neighbor makes as an accountant or as a factory worker. The only reason this is even up for discussion is that it seems that some people on YouTube are making a boatload of money and they are somewhat in the public eye (ie: they have YouTube fame). There is always a prurient interest in knowing what some people are pulling down and I'm guilty of that too. It does make me think "hmmm, if That guy makes so muc...

Just a short video from paperlilies telling us about how she and her family spent her birthday. I love scones! My grandmother used to make them once in a while along with a ga-zillion other cookies, cakes and desserts and it's one of the few things that I actually make myself - I'm a dude and yes, I can bake and cook very well, thank you very much. I owe all my culinary artistry to my grandmother. I don't think I've tried to make the jellies that Bryony's brother made. And she showed some of her birthday presents which were cool like the Futurama Mom and the Lego Roof Tiles . And I liked the quote "Don't let the door hit you on your way out because I don't want assprints on my new door." Lol, she may not know why she's on the planet, but I for one am glad she is because she's fun to watch. Need some more YouTube videos from you Bryony!

Poor Alli. Last day before heading back to school for her final year at college and Charles is giving her a hard time about sleeping. I say let her sleep all day sunday because starting monday morning she's going back to class. And did you hear what she's taking? What was it - Japanese Society & Great Architectual Discoveries? I'm thinking I liked Charles' last year in high school - 5 periods of gym and "yearbook" lol. Wadda slacker! But he is done with high school and college unlike Ms Sleepyhead as he was calling her. And I liked seeing the footage of the two dogs while Charles & Alli were out. Poor Zoe looking mournfully out the window thinking "Is that them? Is that their car? Why didn't they take me this time?" And Marley (troublemaker numero uno) getting into stuff again. I liked seeing the video evidence of her digging out that toy. I would have been blaming Zoe as she had the toy when they got home. And all that cool swag th...

I do get a kick out of Brittani Louise Taylor 's Shout Out Sunday segment she has each week. Basically it's a chance for Brittani to respond to viewer questions posed to her by viewers via the comments section of her videos, on Twitter, and FaceBook etc. She does try to keep in touch with her fans and answers some questions. She even stops by blogs like this one from time to time and left a comment on the post I did about her last video called Justin Bieber And Brittani Louise Taylor Are Engaged? (take a look! She left a comment. Do I sound giddy enough? lol). Besides her main channel (the link is in the 1st line of this post), you can leave her messages on Twitter at brittanitaylor and her Facebook is Brittani On Facebook and her website brittanilouisetaylor.com . She does seem to be a real sweetheart, so go to each of those pages if you are a true Brittani Louise Taylor fan.

Thank you John Green. And I agree, can we move on people? If you've watched the video you have seen as John Green of the vlogbrothers hopefully puts to rest the arguement being put forward by many ardent rightwing types that somehow Barack Obama is a muslim. It goes hand in hand with that other red herring floated by Obama's opponents that he wasn't born in the U.S. It's all a bunch of political claptrap designed to distract voters from the real issues and paint the president in a negative light. As shown, Obama does not follow even the basic tenents of the muslim faith but somehow by continuously bringing up this stupid arguement again and again, the media has convinced 20 per cent of Americans that Obama is a follower of Mohammed. I'm not saying that a portion of the American public are dullards who are easily swayed when politicians prey on their emotional responses to the crap they are being spoon fed. Obviously there are intelligent people and political sa...

This is my secret Internet girlfriend ijustine at the New York City DailyBooth meetup where all these people are just standing in awe of IJ lol. I'll have to have a word with that ginger kid who was mackin' on my woman asking her to marry him. I think he said him YouTube is "Colinjoevideoz with a zee", but I couldn't find his channel. It was cool to see Brittany and Joey from winterspringpro . They were in ijustine's previous video that you can find in my post ijustine Dances At The NYC Apple Store . Loved the screenshot of ijustine in that one - classic geekgirl lol. Quite the crowd of people at that gathering. Lots of the younger folk. If you want to sub to ijustine on DailyBooth if you haven't already, her page is ijustine on DailyBooth . If you don't have an account on DailyBooth, now is the time to join up and start posting some pictures.

I love Natalie from communitychannel . She always makes me laugh unexpectedly during her videos and this one is no exception. First, I'm a dude so I never ever kept a diary (guys kept journals if we kept anything, which we don't), but I do keep a blog. And instead of writing for myself alone, I yell to the Internet about what I like and who I think is hot etc. Yes, I think Natalie is hot. Love the accent, although she is a bit of an oddball, I like her character and sense of humor and she makes me chuckle out loud. Okay, maybe it'll never happen for us, but I have to put a heart image here. I'm such a dork lol. Here's her previous video where she describes her selfishness and plane safety. "I love having my head between knees" lol.

Philip DeFranco has decided to throw the spotlight on three youtubers who haven't garnered quite the support they should in a new Saturday segment of his show. Glad to see it. I like it when larger youtubers (not weight joke Phil) give their support to some of the up and coming youtubers (not a sex joke lacigreen). I am already subbed to joenationtv and wheezywaiter but I haven't heard of lacigreen so I'll check her out too. Shane Dawson has included Joe in some of his videos and so I checked out his channel at that time and had to watch all his videos. Somehow this one got missed or I would have featured it here. If you are a fan of Craig aka Wheezywaiter, then no introduction is needed, but if not, you need to sub to him. Wheezy is one of my personal favorite youtubers and I subbed to him way back when he had only 3,000 subs. Today he's got 163,000 and cranks out good stuff almost all week. Once you get a taste for Wheezy's humor, you just keep coming...

I'm a big fan of the Shaytards and look forward to watching the next video each day and I also usually leave a comment and thumbs up because I think they have one of the best YouTube channels on the website. I don't like the trolling that goes on from time to time from commentators who think that Shay and his family are somehow "sellouts" because they do some promotion work, like the Kia Soul thing. Here's the video: Basically, what he and smosh and Lisa Nova are doing is trying to help promote other lesser-known youtubers with the help of Kia. No big deal. It's a good idea and I've checked out some of the people promoted in the video and subbed to a couple. Some viewers have a bit of trouble dealing with bigger youtubers like Shay getting paid to do this kind of thing and they are entitled to their opinion, but then they go and slam Shay in the comments section yelling that he is somehow a sellout etc. Not true. The reason he and others do this Y...

We get to see the aftermath of Alli's pinata bashing as Zoe and Marley make short work of the tissue paper that is now covering the floor. Some great shots of Zoe wearing the pinata like a hat. They're all heading home and after seeing Tyson and Kobe on last time, they're off on a 6 hour car ride. I don't know how they do those long, long car rides so often. I'd be going bonkers. One thing Charles mentioned that he was listening to music from his old band called "We The Kings" and offered a free music download of the band's album called "Suspense Thriller" and wants you to tell him what the lead singer says in the lyrics at about 46 seconds of the song "Switzerland". this is kinda cool - giving free music for fellow youtubers to use with just a link back to CTFxC. Here's the cartoon that they were watching at the end called The Secret Life , which is really cool. You'll notice a whole bunch of famous youtubers all thr...

LOL, this is actually pretty funny. Brittani Louise Taylor captures some poor smuck off the street thinking it's Justin Bieber and forces herself on him! Actually the dude is Timothy DeLaGhetto who has a very popular YouTube channel of his own and does a lot of videos with The Station . Below you'll find bloopers and behind-the-scenes of Brittani & Tim making the video.

First off, I HATE spiders. I'm a dude so it usually falls to me to dispose of any spiders or other insects that breach my security wall and put in an appearance in my bathroom or kitchen. Usually they scamper across the floor waving "Hello Roomie!" as they adjust to their new digs. I of course will have none of that and immediately scour the room for a weapon while keeping a eye on my little visitor. Then I'm all "HULK SMASH!" and toss the remnants into the toilet or garbage. But one day... I was walking through my house and spotted some movement out of the corner of my eye - a spider! Not just ho-hum, a spider, but "Holy Snikes, Look At That Huge Spider!" This thing looked like it was a zergling from StarCraft2, so I quickly grabbed a fly swatter and gave it 3-4 hard wacks thinking buh-bye. I swear it gave me the finger and ran down a nearby heating duct. I think I heard it chuckling in the darkness, but that might have been my own paranoia ...

Just watched this video from TheWillofDC and was surprised he didn't mention that article about the youtubers allegedly making over $100,000 a year from YouTube. If you want to see my post about the article, check Article Out Says 10 YouTube Stars Making $100,000 A Year . Maybe Will will mention it on his YouTube News on Monday. As far as the info he provided, I am impressed by the 60,000 new subs that realannoyingorange got this past week. That is a major number! And why is a channel with about 500,000 not a YouTube partner?! I don't subscribe to jamesnintendonerd , but that has me intrigued. If anyone knows why they are not a partner, let me know in the comments.

Holy smokes! Babytard is now 3 years old! It just seems like yesterday she was a little munchkin and now she's jabbering away like her brother and sister. Before they go to "Weiners" as Babytard calls Wingers Restaurant, Shay has to stop by the doctor's office because of his sore throat - and um, hot doctor you got Shay. Every doctor I've seen has been an old dude and the Shaytards get a hot blond doctor? How's that work? Kinda cool that they're filming Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in their hometown. I don't expect to see Ty Pennington showing up in the Shaytards' vlogs but I'd like to see something of the work being done. Maybe Shay will film the new house after it gets built and all the crowds leave. But then it's off to dinner with the extended family and little Babytard is soo cute as always. The dress she got so fits her personality. It was interesting to see that Shay finally got a fan page up at Facebook . That link will ...

Now this is some FREAKY stuff! It's sort of like the Old Spice Commercials on YouTube where the Old Spice dude replies to people individually, except this is for an upcoming movie called The Last Exorcism which opens on August 27th and stars Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian. It's like a viral campaign where they show Ashley Bell and then she goes all Linda Blair on the Chatroulette viewer. Just watch the reactions of the dudes watching her thinking they've hit the jackpot with a hot girl, but then... The movie is about a minister sent to perform his last exorcism and there's a documentary film crew there to record the events. Here's the trailer for the movie:

Ray William Johnson's latest showing a traffic accident where some dude on a scooter decides to zip into the right hand lane without looking to see if the way was clear with predictable results. The video has already been taken down from YouTube, so this will likely be the only place you'll see it (unless Fail.org has it). Cannot believe the guy didn't even look and "BLAMMO!" rear-ended and caught on video. Gotta admit I was a little bit mesmerized by that girl's gyrating just like the Perv Cat - although I wasn't trying to paw at her butt on my computer screen, honest. Below you will find the full video of the cat trying to find out what in the world could be making her pants move like that. Actually check out the next video called "Superman Water Delivery Service" by this same channel called VideosFromTurkey . It's just about as funny as the Pervy Kitten. Check this out lol. Superman Water Delivery Service And of course the Weat...

It's okay to gloat a little Cenk lol. Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has been hitting it out of the park for MSNBC as shown by the Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, August 18, 2010 . Uygur is filling in on MSNBC's The Ed Show . There's also a favorable review at mediabistro.com: Cenk Uygur's Daily Show Cameo . It just goes to show what getting a strong following on YouTube and elsewhere can do for you. Fans of The Young Turks are tuning in to watch Uygur tear into the GOP stalwarts over at FOX News and elsewhere. Oh yeah, here the Huffington Post article Cenk mentions in the video: 'Professional Left' Saga Says More About Media Than Obama .

I don't know why I like watching Zoe and Marley so much in the daily vlog of Charles Trippy and Alli Speed, but loved watching Zoe chasing the plastic bottle all around the pool. Marley of course would have nothing to do cheap-ass bottle toy lol. It looks like the CTFxC folks will be staying closer to home in Tallahassee Florida for the next little while after going to Jamaica & then over to Las Vegas to celebrate Alli's birthday, although Charles mentioned something about having to go to L.A. next month around his birthday. He also talks about a re-release of the movie Avatar with about 8 minutes of new footage added, which is pretty cool. Actually they did the same thing with the classic 1970s movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (if you haven't seen the movie, you are missing out big time!) as they re-released that movie a year later with an extra 3 minutes included. The part that was included was what Richard Dreyfuss saw when he went inside the spaceship...

I was on Twitter and one of the people I follow is Pee-wee Herman and he tweeted the link to this cockatiel named Spike who sings the song "Tequila" that Herman made famous again in his movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure from back in Here's the scene from the movie where Pee-wee wanders into the biker bar and runs into a little bit of trouble. "SHHHH!!! I'm TRYing to use the PHONE!!"

This is going to be a viral video very soon. Take a look at this bull as he leaps out of the bull ring and up into the crowd of surprised spectators. Not meaning any disrespect, but look at the air he gets! The bull goes all Jordan-esque and flies into the stands. 40 people were hurt which is of course too bad, but c'mon! Isn't watching a bullfight in the 21st century getting a little too barbaric? Nothing like torturing, humiliating and then killing an animal for the pleasure of the crowd.

There's an article out stating that in all likelihood, at least 10 youtubers are raking in a minimum of $100,000 a year. Sounds sweet right? Below is the list of 10 YouTube Stars and their estimated yearly income from being in the YouTube Partnership Program. 10. Natalie Tran - communitychannel - $101,000 9. The Young Turks – The Young Turks - $112,000 8. Smosh – smosh - $113,000 7. Mediocre Films – MediocreFilms - $116,000 6. Shay Carl – Shaytards - $140,000 5. Fred – Fred - $146,000 4. Ryan Higa – nigahiga - $151,000 3. Philip DeFranco – sxephil - $181,000 2. The Annoying Orange – realannoyingorange - $288,000 1. Shane Dawson – shanedawsontv - $315,000 Now I just watched Phil DeFranco's latest Vloggity and he thinks there are several holes in the article. Like the fact that Ray William Johnson isn't even on the list. Ray's show, equals 3 gets about 25 million views a month and he's been getting new subscribers at an almost unbelie...

Poor old Shay Carl is still feeling under the weather while Katilette takes the tardlets to the park to watch her father play guitar and sing in a gondola. I must admit I loved watching Sontard boogieing to the songs lol. I especially thought he was looking cool at about 8:55 into the video when he gave the camera a hooded sideways look and did an Elvis-type dance with his leg. I'm pretty sure Shay must have taught him that. This is one of those Shaytards videos that you love where you don't know what will happen. Sontard dancin' like a maniac and the girls playing in the fountain - just normal kid stuff, but still fun to watch. And little Rocktard was looking quite alert when Shay was talking to him. Did he give Shay a smile? It sounded like he was actually trying to talk some too.

I just watched the latest video from elmify and she said she had just noticed she had hit 10,000 subscribers which is pretty awesome. It was just last month that I posted Elmify: One Of My Latest Favorite YouTubers and she had about 4,500 subs and now a month later she's got 10K. Good job. If you haven't seen her before, obviously watch the above video, but sub to her channel as well (at the link above). Last month she talked about trying to get the "elmify" name on Twitter and finding it taken. At the time I told her to just use therealelmify or something else like that and she told me "she was on it." I guess she talked the person using the name to give it up anf now she's on Twitter as elmify , so follow her there too. Right now she has about 400 people following her Twitter account (including myself - follow me at Hey_Bradshaw ).

Thankfully, YouTube heard all our whining and complaining about that hated gray autoplay bar that was forced on us by the good folks at YouTube. It was a disaster right from the get-go, forcing you to hit the off button every time you watched the next video and was just a colossal inconvenience to the viewer. They did sorta disable it a while back making it appear in the "off" position, but I'm guessing very, very few viewers turned it back on - I know I didn't. I think it was just the bright idea of some marketing weinie thinking "Yes! If we set it up so a new video automatically plays when the video the viewer is watching is over, that will mean an increase in views! More revenue through ads for us! Yippee!" But it didn't take into consideration the viewer's experience. By adding another unneeded and basically useless step in the viewing process, it diminished the viewer enjoyment on the website. But major kudos to YouTube for finally taking...

I don't care what you think, I like it when ijustine dances at an Apple store lol. Sure, she has her own, ahem style of dancing, but I think it's funny. She's been getting a bit of flack from Apple employees when she does this lately so she's had to curb her gyrating, but here she is bustin' a move IJ-style. I thought the guy was one of the dudes from Smosh at first, but it turns out the other two nutbars are Brittany and Joey from winterspringpro . They have about 135K subs themselves and have posted tons of videos on their channel. Here's their latest video which is a take-off on Katy Perry's California Gurls:

Here it is, Charles Trippy & Alli Speed's last day in Las Vegas after celebrating Alli's 21st birthday (video below) and she is going to a Betty Page dress from (it looks like) the Bettie Page Boutique at 3663 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, NV. Their website is bettiepageclothing.com . Must admit Alli looked pretty good in the girlie-girl dresses and Charles' sister Melissa Trippy also look nice in the brief shot of her in the 50s retro style. For some reason, maybe someone will clue me in, they were hanging with actor Wolfgang J. Weber, who I'm guessing is a friend of theirs. Ottawa-born Weber actually has several movies under his belt and according to his IMDB page: Wolfgang J. Weber , he'll be playing Jesus Christ in an upcoming movie. After spending a few days over in Vegas, celebrating Alli's birthday, she finally can gamble in Vegas all legal-like she said, but forgot her ID at one point. She did end up winning some money at the casino and used that...