A POC/non-white/mixie nerd scrapbook. Because we’re awesome.
guys can you help me out and find that video where it compares informercials for women to informercials to men
and for women it’s like DO YOU FEEL TERRIBLE? GETTING OLDER?? and it’s a woman who’s holding and dropping a bunch of products, while the man is getting out of the shower pulls a bear out of the mirror cabinet and the infomercial is like YOU’RE AWESOME YOU SHOULD FEEL AWESOME
It’s from That Mitchell & Webb Look:
meanwhile gunnarolla and stwpt continue to be perfect people
Textbook perfection really takes a lot
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
P. S. Has subtitles!
Ignored by mainstream media, Asian Americans turn to online videos
Catch Kevin Wu’s latest comedy program on YouTube, and you might think he’s nothing more than a young Asian American talking to a camera in his bedroom. But almost each of his shows command at least 2 million views — rivaling the nightly TV audiences of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
A disproportionate share of YouTube’s top personalities are minorities, a striking contrast to the most popular shows on mainstream television, where the stars are largely white. These minority-produced, home-grown shows are drawing massive audiences — the top one has 5.2 million subscribers — enough to attract the attention of major advertisers.
“A lot of U.S. marketers are leaving minority audiences on the table,” said Seneca Mudd, the director of industry initiatives at the Interactive Advertising Bureau. “Advertisers would ignore that trend at their own peril.”
Among the 20 most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, eight feature minorities. Most are Asian American. .. Nearly 80 percent of minorities regularly watch online videos, compared with less than 70 percent of whites, the Pew Internet & American Life Project says.
Wu, who ranks 11th among YouTube channels, said he does not intentionally target Asian American issues. But those viewers more easily understand his jokes on dating, stereotypes and the generational clash between parents and kids, he said. “I just tell my stories honestly, and usually Asian Americans will relate to me because they say, ‘That’s how I am and with my parents,’ ” he said.
For minorities, the medium offers a way to push back against stereotypes on network television, said Maureen Guthman, the head of brand strategy and acquisitions for the African American-focused channel TV One. Blacks can present themselves “completely unfiltered and without [someone] telling us, ‘You’ve got to be more this’ or ‘You’ve got to be more that,’ ” she said.
ETA: Maybe I should include a sampling of those tweets.
Gundane said he hoped that his involvement with the song would turn him into an expert on British politics and economics in the same way ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ had turned Geldof and Bono into the world’s leading experts on Africa.
“If I’m not sharing a platform with the Queen and David Cameron by this time next year; or headlining at Glastonbury, then I will have done something very wrong,” said Gundane.
Literally made my holiday season.
LULZ HAD.
Actual laughter was produced. Further lulz were induced by “Charles and Camilla to get full Mzansi experience”
“They have requested to be shown traditional crafts,” said a presidential spokesperson, “so we’re taking them to the office of this guy Mo in Midtown who’ll do you a legit-looking tender application for 2K”.
and “COP17 called off as new planet found to ruin”
The international climate change talks currently happening in Durban have been abruptly ended as the news broke that astronomers have discovered a new habitable planet, Kepler 22b. “What’s the point, really, now that we have a spare?” said one climate activist.
Needed this on my blog, even though it’s now stale by Internet standards. George Takei steps in to settle the age-old Star Wars vs. Star Trek feud recently started up again by William Shatner and Carrie Fisher.
Hari Kondabolu: Do you love the taste of chocolate…but can’t stand looking at it? Well then, try some white chocolates! It’s from the same people that brought you White Jesus!”
Don Cheadle is the obvious choice to play Captain Planet in the movie version of the popular cartoon.
omfg!!! i’ll turn you into a fucking tree lmao
I’m sick about this shit.
OH, THE BLOOD OF JESUS. ::dead::
The Ain’t Shitness level of my dash is epic.
两个化学家进了一家餐厅，服务员问喝什么，一个说：H2O。另外一个说：H2O，too。后来第二个死掉了。。。
Two chemists walk into a restaurant. The waiter asks what they’d like to drink, one says: H2O. The other says: H2O, too. Later, the other one died…
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I love chem jokes! My personal favourite is still the “Ferrous Wheel”. SMBC’s latest is also pretty great. Anybody have more?
Q. What do they do with dead chemists?
A. Barium.
“You know how they get professional skeptics? Send ‘em to Catholic school.”
– Leighann Lord on Star Talk (they’re interviewing James Randi and Michael Shermer)
