git
3:23Hitler uses git
823K views • 15 years ago
ronopolis
A short parody clip in the 'Hitler learns about...' meme format, in which Hitler rants about git's confusing commands. It riffs on git's complexity and the Linus Torvalds and Facebook angle.
3:32New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
40.6M views • 7 years ago
Corridor Digital
Corridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.
4:13New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)
91.3M views • 7 years ago
Corridor Digital
A Corridor Digital parody of a Boston Dynamics promo, showing a CGI military robot trained for combat that goes rogue and refuses to kill a robotic dog.
11:17Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim
1.9M views • 12 years ago
Adult Swim
An Adult Swim fake infomercial in which Alan Resnick pitches a four-step program for creating a digital avatar to live forever. It is absurdist satire of tech immortality and digital popularity.
43:44Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
21M views • 6 years ago
Kitboga
Kitboga baits tech-support scammers into believing they will get $3,000, wasting hours of their time while he plays along and screen-shares. The scammers become frustrated as it becomes clear the money will not reach them.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
2:26Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law
1.4M views • 8 years ago
thejuicemedia
A satirical 'honest' government ad from The Juice Media about Australia's 2018 Assistance and Access anti-encryption bill. It lays out in blunt terms what the law would let authorities do.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
14:05Best Lenny call ever! "I got to hang up. I cain't do this no longer. No, sir." (14:04)
369K views • 11 years ago
Toao.net
A recorded phone call in which the Lenny bot, a looping set of prerecorded replies from a rambling old man, keeps a telemarketer on the line for 14 minutes. The uploader calls it the best Lenny call yet.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
1:46TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck
7.9M views • 7 years ago
Simone Giertz
Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.
Topic match · 3D printing, CNC & maker projects
3:15Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
761K views • 15 years ago
c0pyr1gh7
A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project. It plays on surveillance and data-collection fears.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
3:46The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
434K views • 13 years ago
The Onion
A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments. It parodies tech conference talks and monetization of communities.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
0:06Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?
8.5M views • 13 years ago
BobRobster
A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.
Topic match · Information theory & signal processing
6:57Nathan For You - Fixing Computer Repair
2.2M views • 9 years ago
Comedy Central
A Nathan For You sketch in which Nathan Fielder tackles customers' privacy fears at computer repair shops with an awkwardly absurd business solution. It is a comedy clip from the Comedy Central show.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
2:45Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
3.7M views • 14 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott's three-minute satirical short about a corporate-run, DRM-and-ads-laden afterlife after mind uploading. It imagines copyright law and lawyers applied to human memory and consciousness.
1:38The Sopranos - Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at "Starbucks"
4M views • 12 years ago
amigomac
A scene from The Sopranos in which two old-school mobsters try to extort a Starbucks and learn that electronic payments leave an indisputable record of sales.