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Well, we got an explanation from Charles about why there was no CTFxC meetup like they had hoped at the Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert Rally Charles, Alli & Melissa were attending in Washington DC - there was a massive Internet blackout. No cell phones, no texting, no Internet - BIG fail on the part of the InterWebs, so although Charles Trippy had planned on telling everyone where he and the girls were, they couldn't, but it still looks like it was an awesome time. Loved all the signs and costumes they spotted in the crowd. And one dude found them and gave his YouTube channel - arandomkindofthing (go give Shane a shout out from CTFxC!). Of course there was also that total DB who interrupted them to make a snide comment about liberals and their skin. Alli TOTALLY called it right with that guy. And did you see the guy wearing the Rorschach mask? I half expected him to say "Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon." lol. Still the shots after dark were ...

It seems that DaveDays is coming out with new songs just about every other week! Actually his most recent video was released about 2 weeks ago, see my post about What Does It Take . And yes, that was Kimmi (last seen in Dave's Olive You video) and Sammah of "Do It Float?" fame hidin' out in the shower. Actually, Dave credits Sammah and Cyr for doing the filming. This looks like it may be part of the Ecomagination Challenge and you have to like Dave's style: "yeah, we gotta turn the lights off baby. Don't you wanna save the environment?" And you can pick up the newest DaveDays song (and his others too) over at davedays/itunes (actually Dave's giving this one away for FREE and that link takes you to his website).

Toby Turner aka Tobuscus has a couple of channels on YouTube you must be subscribed to. Okay, he's got an armload of channels - there's his main channel, Tobuscus, where he has over 508K subs and he's about 62nd most subscribed of all time, but he also has his "Lazy Vlog" channel under his real name, TobyTurner (if that indeed is his real name...). That's the one the clip below is from: As expected, Toby did the unexpected. Doing his Supernote in his car and then hopping out and doing a walking vlog. He did his Supernote for Team Beard who it looks like will probably win the whole enchilada as it is down to it's last day and Team Beard is still in the lead (unless Shay Carl and his Shaytards Rebellionites can manage some last-minute heroics). As well, he was recently featured by the boys over at ST1RFRYTV in their "YouTube Spotlight" which is a tip of the hat to Turner. Stirfry has also done spotlights on Charles Trippy and Alli Speed as...

So, what were you for Halloween? It looks like iJustine is rockin' the vampire theme with those choppers. The Radio Shack dude didn't even seem to bat an eye at IJ when she asked for help looking for that cable. And loved the anguished looks to her sister Bree when he led her over to the cable section. If you're looking for fangs , check on Amazon - but if it's past Halloween and you're shopping for fangs, it may be time to lay off the True Blood for a while. I have to say that I did laugh at iJustine trying to squirm in and out of that little mermaid costume and needing help from a kind stranger and Bree to manage the maneuver. LOL at the bug-eyed little girl at 9:07 staring at her when IJ broke out into song. Half expected her to whisper "C'mon Jimmy let's get outta here!" And just in case you missed IJ's sister Jenna 's video where she dresses up as a vampire with her friends...

I'm really liking this new feature from The Station on YouTube (actually this is from TheStation2 , their 2nd channel). Your Genial Host With The Most is of course, Joe Felice and he features YouTube channels with less than 10,000 subscribers that viewers have suggested should be highlighted so they can be seen by more youtubers and others. First, take a look at Joe's video below for more info and then I'll post a video from both of the featured channels. I've never heard of either of these two channels, so hats off to Joe and The Station for bringing them to our attention. This new feature is very clever on their part, but if you are subbed to Joe's channel, you know he has his insightful moments (I particularly love his political videos - need more of those Joe!) and he has been a great addition to the Station's crew in my opinion. The first channel that they told us about is called thelittlefears who originate from Canada and currently have 1,955 subs...

Looks like Charles Trippy will be heading over to Cape Canaveral later for the latest space launch, but first, Alli and Charles' sister Melissa go to Washington DC during the big Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert Rally on October 30th. There was some talk of a mini- CTFxC gathering, but it looks like it was lost in the hoopla of the Stewart-Colbert party. Have to agree with uber-gay Michael with his assessment of Melissa being gorgous - she's always smiling too which is another of her attractive features. Hey, if you aren't subscribed to Melissa yet, her Youtube channel is mel and she now has over 53K subs! As far as Alli and Melissa's DC trip, it is always interesting to see all those monuments and buildings. I've never been there (yet), but I have always wanted to see Washington, the White House, Congress and the Smithsonion. Don't know why, but the Lincoln Memorial has always intrigued me - with a humongous Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair staring down at...

Why doesn't Nanalew have more subscribers? Yes, she has 125,176 at last count (that's good enough for 22nd in Canada) but she should have more I say! This is her latest which is her doing her Supernote and she has some friends make guest appearances. The Supernote contest ends tonight at midnight (October 31st) so get on it people! Nanalew's was made for Meekakitty 's Team Stashe. Were you as surprised as I was to see Mitchell Davis & Kyle Sibert aka livelavalive and well as the beardman himself, Wheezy Waiter . Although I think it will be Wheezy's year (unless Shay Carl can spur a last minute charge), I gotta give Nanalew props for sticking with Team Stashe even though they sit currently in 6th place - but that is also because Meekakitty has such fanatical followers. If you want to do a Supernote for Meekakitty, here's her video that you link to: TEAM STACHE! Supernote 2010 . Also, check out her channel! She has a great series called "Growing U...

I'm always looking for newer Youtubers to feature on this blog and here's Lee (aka REALITYB1TES ) who has racked up over 5K subscribers since starting his channel back in May 2010. He made the video below to thank his subscribers: I subbed to him after seeing one of his earliest videos about Sleep Paralysis (his 2nd on this channel) where he did this super-creepy face morphing thing. You'll have to watch it because it is hard to describe (and was totally unexpected lol). Lee has made a couple more videos since getting his 5,000th sub and now has 5,805 subscribers. He posts new videos just about every week or so and gets at least 1,000 views per video, and some have 4K-plus. He describes himself as a "fun loving, quirky kind of guy" and that does come through in his videos. In his most recent video he talks about the panic in Singapore when there was a report of a bear roaming about, but it turned out to be just a dude in a bear suit doing a promotional vi...

It is down to Wheezy Waiter and Shay Carl in the epic battle of the beards in the 2010 Supernote contest. Both Team Beard (Wheezy's team) and the Shaytard Rebellionites (Shay's team) need to be commended as both are far and away number one and two overall and running away with the contest. Shane Dawson's Team Shane is a distant 3rd. You can find out the standing at Supernote Rules and Standings . Both Wheezy and Shay made last minute videos to try to bolster the troops and try to get this thing won and Shay came back from about 13,000 seconds behind to about 4,000 back, so I think it may be Wheezy's year, but it ain't over til the fat lady sings (although I hear her warming up). Check out Wheezy and Shay's pleas: Submit your Supernote video response for Team Beard here: Team Beard Submit your Supernote video response for the Shaytards Rebellionites here: Team Shaytards Who has the longest Supernote this year? It looks like truecolors911 has the l...

I don't know about you, but as a regular viewer of TheWillofDC 's Winners & Losers I like how Will did this video rather than his other recent videos with the green screen. That said, there were some interesting developments in the rankings of the Top 100 Youtubers this week and Will lets us know what's what. The big winner this past week was DieAussenseiter a German YouTube channel that moved up from 80th to 77th place on the overall Top 100. "DieAussenseiter" translates into english as "The Outsider". This does show the growth of the international scope of YouTube and other channels using languages other than primarily English should take heart and receive some motivation to keep working to make more videos and channels in their native languages - there are audiences in every country that want great content in their own language. Below is a Halloween video from DieAussenseiter. DieAussenseiter is made up of two German brothers: Alexander ...

Looks like Philip DeFranco has finally brought us the anticipated Fail Fridays where he points out a couple of the biggest fails for the week and viewers vote which one was the larger fail. Got it? Good. Personally I would have to say sleepwalking shotgun dude (Phil didn't say whether or not he survived) over the wacky waiter with the mega-death hot sauce . I just checked and they do have the stuff on Amazon so I'll put up a link to it if you are brave enough to grab some of that liquid fire. When Phil was talking about this story, my mind went to the dirtiest place and thought "bodily fluid" (a collective "ewwww" goes up from my readership) but it was just the hot sauce from a bottle variety. So, of the two fails, which do YOU think was the greater showing of total ineptness? Plus - what do you think about the State Farm sponsorship of the video? Me, I have no real problem with it, but some viewers may think "Phil, buddy, you sold out to the ...

Mommytard is all in a tizzy because she cannot find her missing shoe as today's Shaytards vlog starts. Shay of course, is busy editing yesterday's before he uploaded it and I agree with Shay about the thumbnail being epic lol. I was thinking the same thing as soon as I saw little Princesstard's eye-popping mug. This one has some footage of Shay's sister Carlie and Shay and Katilette go to the movies. Sounds boring? Just watch. Shay has a new obsession: American Choppers and wants to get a Shaytards motorcycle. Can't you just picture it? With the Shaytards all painted on the gas tank and a big beard emblem across the handle bars lol. Later we get to see Babytard watching herself on the computer and then she starts mugging for the camera just like Princesstard does! I think it is only a matter of time before she starts acting just like Princesstard which would be so funny to see. Shay's trying to talk to Katilette about the painting he mentioned in another...

It's that spooky time of year again and Annoying Orange and the rest of the produce have decided to tell scary Halloween stories. Pear kicks things off with the trying horrifying tale of "Frankenfruit". Ooh spooky! The ending was kinda messy. Grapefruit was played by Bob Jenz and Kevin Brueck was Kiwi (and Grandpa Lemon too). As always daneboe was Real Annoying Orange. What I like about Annoying Orange is that he usually has some outtakes where they mess up their lines. Take a look. If you are unfamiliar with the Real Annoying Orange, the link at the top will take you to his channel so you can sub if you haven't already - Orange actually has 1.3 million subs and it looks like he will surpass Phil DeFranco's main channel for 9th spot on the Top 100 List as sxephil is only about 30,000 ahead of Danboe's Orange.

Poor Shay Carl may have to turn in his old passport because he may be going to Toronto Canada sometime soon. You can almost hear all the Canadian Shaytards fans "I am SO there!" as soon as he mentioned a possible gathering in Toronto. And what did you think about Babytard's singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ? I am a tough as nails kinda guy and that did "melt my heart" as Shay said. Katilette sang a few times on the vlog, but they should get Babytard doing some more singing. Hey, she's already on the cover of a famous musician's CD, get her on iTunes lol. I think the funniest part was when Shay was driving the family home and did the "commercial" for Heritage Foods and Mommytard yelled at him for being gross and Shay said "We'll edit that part out" and sorta winked at the camera. What do you think of Shay's passport dilemma? I've had the same thing with old drivers licenses and other picture ID that I just couldn...

If you are subscribed to LinzLoves , you know that she just travelled to London England all by her lonesome and this is her first video of her time over there. Day 1: The British Museum. I am a huge history buff and love all the statues and history that permeates through the British Museum. Never been there myself, but maybe someday. Did you see the Rosetta Stone at about 4:22? That alone is one of the historically significant pieces at the museum. In case you didn't know, the Rosetta Stone was found by Napolean Bonapartes troops during their expedition to Egypt in 1799 and proved to be the key to decyphering the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs because it has a decree written in ancient Greek and the same text written in hieroglyphics. I'll stop with the history lesson now lol. After the British Museum, she heads off to the Tower of London where so many gruesome executions took place. I agree with what Linz says about taking a guided tour of the Tower being best. There is to...

I just watched this like everyone else and I can't make heads or tails out of it. The guy who posted it to Youtube is George Clarke of Yellow Fever Productions and it is cool. But more importantly, what do you think? I watched it with a certain amount of scepticism, fully expecting it to be totally fake and that I would be able to pull apart any of his arguements, but I can't. I haven't seen the clip in the context of DVD so I can't say if it even includes the said clip. There is the option of buying the set of DVDs but I probably won't. Is it a time traveler? Who can say. Maybe Stephen Hawking or another great brain could offer an opinion (and if Hawking is reading this and contemplating a comment, "Hi Steve!"). The clip seems to be from Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film called "The Circus " which I don't think I've seen. I thought that I had seen just about everything from Chaplin when I was a kid, but the guy did make so many movi...

Let's say you have just watched a video from your favorite youtuber and you just HAVE to tell them how much you liked it. You've LOLed and ROFLed yourself silly or you have found what they have said so thought-provoking that you're now feverishly typing a comment. You have written and re-written your comment until it is the best response you can muster and you click "post" fully expecting an immediate reply saying that your comments are the most brilliant, insightful response that they have ever read. But you get nothing. Nada. More and more comments are piled on the video from other viewers and your brilliant and insightful snippet of text disappears in the sea of comments. This happens time and time again and you begin to think "Oh Justin Bieber, how can you be so unjust?!" Um, I don't think I've ever commented on a Bieber video and I'm just using his name as an example. Really. Famous Youtubers Are BUSY Take a look at any video of th...

Here's the latest video from CTFxC where Alli Speed forgets her camera battery (vlogging fail!) and Charles Trippy gets stuck in a Best Buy parking lot after hours and discussing zombies and new video games. Like he says, he can have fun anywhere. It was interesting to see the lecture Alli was attending and her reaction to the religious views of the dude answering questions. I liked that she did say that she was showing the clip not to promote any particular point of view but just to show the happenings on campus. Lol at Charles for his "With Zombies!" comments regarding the new Mortal Combat (with zombies). He said "there'll be Nickelodeon with zombies and Disney with zombies and Dora The Explorer with zombies... oh wait. I'd like to see that one." He asks which game he should get: Dead Rising 2 Fallout New Vegas The new Call of Duty: Black Ops Which ones do YOU think he should get? Or do you care lol? Charles also uploaded his Hallowee...

This is the video Charles Trippy filmed when they were in California earlier this month and that he has been working on since they got back. In their last CTFxC video, Charles was showing how he was putting together some of the music for this Halloween/Twilight themed video. It looks like Charles/Edward scored big time lol. Also, this was filmed by Mr Safety of SMPfilms . The hot girl at the door was ChristaBelle28 . Check out her videos! She's got about 38 posted (I liked A Real Woman's Workout ). And don't forget that you can win some Throwboy pillows by subscribing to this channel (which is Charles' personal Youtube channel). After subbing here, go to their Facebook page at facebook.com/CharlesTrippyFriendcore . Once you're subbed and have "liked" the Facebook page, Charles will randomly pick 9 folks to win the Throwboy pillows. It's that easy.

I somehow stumbled across this great compilation of Babytard moments from the Shaytards vlogs. In case you don't know who she is, she's the youngest daughter of Shay Carl and Katilette who do a daily vlog of their family on YouTube that is one of the website's most subscribed channels. It seems that just about every Shaytards video has Shay telling Babytard to stop sucking her thumb and the video above was uploaded by a Shaytards viewer. Each of the children in the family has their own moments to shine and are little characters in their own right and the children plus their wacky Dad, Shay Carl along with their lovely mother Katilette, also known as Mommytard make up the Shaytards. Their videos also have other members of Shay's family appearing from time to time (I'm a little partial to Shay's cheerleader sister Carlie) and usually shows the family going about their day with the odd trip out of town thrown in. But one of the favorites of viewers is little...

This is a new song from Amy Kuney that was recently featured on the television series One Tree Hill (season 8, episode 2). The song is called Hope A Little Harder and is available from iTunes . My suggestion? Buy it and support an up-and-coming singer who has a lot of videos and songs on her YouTube channel. I received a friend request on YouTube from her and I always check out the other person's channel to see whether or not I should accept their request and I was very happy to click on her video of this song. I immediately accepted her as a friend and subscribed to her channel. She currently has 17,904 subs and should have more. Her channel states she is an unsigned singer and hopefully if you check out her music and maybe subscribe to her as well, it will help persuade the muckety-mucks in the recording industry that she should get signed! There are a number of great artists on YouTube with varying levels of success and by subscribing to them you will get some great musi...

It's a little midnight pranking for Olga Kay as she gets ready for a visit from Shane Dawson . The other two girls are Olga's roommate, Nadine and Jess (aka ExoticJess on YouTube) and they've decided to play a song that Shane apparently hates called We No Speak Americano . Just in case you have never seen the video for the song, it is shown below. And pick it up on iTunes . But that's not all that happened, as later it looks like Shane and Olga plan on pranking Nadine. This video was posted on Shane's iPhone channel so you might want to check that out as well.

Have you figured out what you are going to be this Halloween? Got a great costume idea picked out? No? Why not take some ideas from people working at The Station for this year? DeniseVlogs asks some of the behind-the-scenes folks (and KassemG) what they plan on being for Halloween. Now Denise starts of rough as the first guy has a terrible time with the question. And the mean girl who slams Denise for her fashion sense - I think Denise has nice legs. But she does put her foot in her mouth with the dude planning on being a carny. I was wondering if he was testing his costume out too. The best was with Joe Felice freaking out about his costume idea (and loved the mean girl from earlier sprinting away when Denise came up to talk to them). And then there was KassemG with a rather unique choice to be "Nice Peter". You'll have to watch the video for that one.

It was good to see the Shaytards feature their dog Malachi a bit as I've read several comments from viewers saying they hadn't seen much of that dog recently. Shay and Malachi were heading over to the Shaytards old house - yes, they moved awhile back to a new place in their hometown. No, I don't have their mailing address and that's because Shay and Katilette want a certain degree of privacy. That's also why they use the names "Sontard", "Princesstard" etc for their children - I do actually know what their names are, but I won't tell you neener, neener . They want to keep the kids' names private, so until Shay and Mommytard say otherwise, their real names will not be seen on this blog. And you should respect their wishes as good little Shaytards fans. It was odd seeing the old Shaytards' stomping grounds and I sort of expected to see things like the trampoline in the backyard but they've moved to a newer home. What do you...

Don't you hate it when you produce a clone to do your work for you and said clone proves completely inept and unable to do the simpliest of tasks? Actually that can be looked on two ways - first, that your clone making is not very good and you need to see quality control improvements, or - second, what you based the clone on, the original you, is actually to blame. There's a sobering thought. Maybe YOU are the inept one and the clone is REALLY close to the original? Sorry, too much sci-fi mumble-jumble for me. Let's just watch Wheezy Waiter 's latest. I don't know it is simply a matter of being calcium deficient that could cause a clone's hand to fall off , but it may be that Wheezy's clone making needs an upgrade. Why I was just reading in Clone Makers Monthly (that's a magazine for clone making aficionados, but you've probably never heard of it) that with a few tweaks, problems like Wheezy's calcium deficient clone can be lessened. But the...

I just watched Philip DeFranco 's latest video and I don't know if you noticed, but Phil's looking a little different. No, I don't mean ("Hey Phil's lost some weight" - yes he has), but the style of the show has morphed again. DeFranco is on his game when he's doing his sarcastic take on the news and this is Phil on hyperdrive. There is a new blue background and he's classed it up with a nice suit jacket, but it is still your buddy sxephil bringing you what you need to see. I wasn't too keen on his previous video when he wore the glasses (I got a weird Michael Buckley-esque vibe lol) and he had a bit of a Max Headroom thing (going way back for that reference), but I like the new look. If you are one of the over 1.3 million subscribers to Phil's main channel, what do you think of the new look to the show?

First off, this is a LONG video - clocking in at around 45 minutes, so you will need to kick back and relax. Secondly, if you are looking for this video by AngryAussie to hold your hand and lead you step by step to the promised land of massive YouTube fame and fortune, that's not what this video is about. Plus, AngryAussie may not be for you either if you are not prepared to be shouted at. That's not a bad thing either - he is not all abuse and vitriol. He is not afraid to be loud and in your face, but when you get past HOW he says what he says, the WHAT he's saying makes a lot of sense. The first part of this video is about his visit to England and some of his experiences over there as well as announcing a second channel he is setting up - sort of an "AngryAussie-Lite" where he is "a little less angry" lol. A lot of the allure of his main channel is that he slams those who exhibit stupidity in all it's forms, politically, in comments and life...

It has been reported that Lady Gaga, also know as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has passed another milestone with all of her videos having been watched a combined 1 billion times on YouTube. Actually 1,002,734,757 (that figure is already out of date). This goes along with her triumphs on Facebook and Twitter where she is the most followed, be-friended person on the planet. This figure of her total views is not for one single video, although her video for Bad Romance has almost 300 million views alone. For those of you having lived under a rock, here's the song: Even if you were living under a rock you probably have seen parts of this video at one time or another. There's no escape from that song - "Ra, ra, uh, uh, uh... Rum-a rum-a-a", that lyric is somehow stuck in my own noggin. Her second most watched Youtube viedo is for the song Just Dance (featuring Colby O'Donis) with an equally impressive 124 million views. Although she has the most overal...

I posted the Top 100 Most Subscribed UK Youtubers list way back in mid-July and I've been getting requests for an updated version because it is pretty much out of date. There's been quite a bit of movement in the list with some new channels coming onto the list and others slipping off. Like I always point out with these things, you shouldn't only look at the top 10 most subscribed and screw the rest - there's a LOT of great channels farther down the list and more importantly, many, many who just don't have enough subs to get on this list, but that does not mean they should be ignored by you or me. If you go to any channel on this list they will usually have links to other channels that you should take a look at. Creep around a bit - if you see a link to someone's channel with an interesting name or thumbnail, click on it and see what they're all about! Check out the channels of people who are commenting on the people you like. You never know what you wi...