YouTube

How Teeth Whitening Strips Attack Stains Like Tiny Spaceships

You pop on a goopy strip, and a short while later you’ve got teeth as white and gleaming as polished tile. But how do those strips work? Wired explains, and when you zoom in to the individual ions flying around, it looks a lot like a sci-fi space attack. Turns out, there’s a lot of…

Watch two old men dramatically re-enact a YouTube comment girl fight

This is so hilariously on point. It’s basically every silly Internet slap fight made infinitely fancier and thus even sillier. Seriously, watch these two old men perform a dramatic re-enactment of a YouTube comment fight over Harry Styles of One Direction between YouTubers Sophie Danze and JilianLovesTheBiebs and just enjoy the hell out of its…

Well, it looks like YouTube is down; any attempt at reaching the site is currently being met with an internal service error. We’ve reached out to YouTube for comment and will update with more information as soon as we hear back. Update (5:51PM): It’s back!

How YouTube Works

You’re about to watch a video via YouTube. Hell, you watch dozens of videos every day on YouTube. But do you have any idea how it works? If not, it’s worth watching this video. Where does all that video live? How does it get to you? And why the hell do you have to put…

From PS1 to PS4, It’s a PlayStation Family Reunion

The PlayStation family has a lot of stylish members — and one very upright, ashen patriarch that started it all. Let’s take a look at how their aesthetics evolved. This fun little video by UnboxTherapy really shows the changes in physical size that occurred over PlayStation’s 18-year run. Remember how mind-blowingly small the PSone was…

Make Matches Into Mini Missiles Using Common Household Junk

Wile E. Coyote always used matches to light his ACME rockets. He wasted a lot of money. Turns out, you can cut out the middleman and use matches to make your own tiny rockets. Just don’t try to ride them. YouTube madman mist8k brings us this fun little trick that turns match heads into motors…

The YouTube Music Awards Are Live Tonight

The first ever YouTube Music Awards are starting…really soon at 6pm EST (streaming free). Which is cool! Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts are hosting, Spike Jonze is directing, and the likes of Lady Gaga, Eminem, Avicii and Arcade Fire will be making appearances. The Music Awards showcase YouTube’s desire to become a serious player in…

YouTube Wants to Make Its Own Paid Subscription Music Service

According to Billboard, YouTube is aiming to make its own Spotify-like subscription music service. There’ll be a free streaming service (which, uh, should differentiate from free YouTube) and a premium tier that’ll be like Google Music’s All Access streaming service. Basically, every company wants their own music streaming service! The streaming service is supposed to…

Even a Choir Can’t Make YouTube Comments Less Horrible

YouTube: you know it as a land where even the most adorable video of a puppy can devolve into a thread of racist, sexist, homophobic gobbledygook in an instant. But would it help if the site’s notoriously awful comments were sung by an angelic choir? In theory, a nice melody and a little harmony might…

YouTube’s offline viewing option, coming to the mobile app next month, will hang on to videos for 48 hours — any longer, you’ll have to reconnect to watch. [YouTube FAQ via iMore]

7 Bizarrely Fascinating Videos From a North Korean Travel Agency

It’s hard not to feel a sense of simultaneous discomfort and awe while watching the fascinatingly bizarre YouTube channel of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency specializing in trips to North Korea. We already knew that most North Korean public outreach attempts feel like a real-life uncanny valley, a pastiche of a happy kingdom—and these…

How to do cool things in YouTube using your browser’s address bar

Lifehacker has six excellent tricks to do very useful things with YouTube just by using your browser’s address bar—from downloading any video to bypassing regional restrictions. https://lifehacker.com/the-six-best-youtube-url-tricks-1422544868

YouTube just launched a library of royalty-free songs you can use in your videos. The generic-but-not-bad tracks let you add some audio spice without risking a copyright-related takedown. [YouTube via Verge]

YouTube Comments Will Soon Be Less Racist, Homophobic, and Confusing

Ever read the comments on a popular YouTube video? There is no faster way to strip yourself of faith in humanity. It’s a cesspool. And this is coming from someone who writes for the Gawker network. We know a little something about rowdy comments sections. YouTube’s is worse, but it’s finally about to smarten up.…

Offline Viewing Is Coming to YouTube’s Mobile Apps

You’ve been able to pre-cache YouTube videos on Android to watch—while still online—for a while. But by November, you’ll be able to watch them offline, too. According to the YouTube Creators Blog, users of the YouTube Android app will be able to store videos and watch them one offline a “short time” later. It’s not…

How Casey Neistat Shot an Amazing Car Commercial With Zero Planning

Filmmaker Casey Neistat and Mercedez-Benz don’t pair easily in people’s minds. One’s a YouTube renegade, the other is the manufacturer of cars you can’t afford. And yet! They teamed up and made an ad. The result is as surprising and weird as you’d expect it to be. Yes, this is definitely a car commercial, but…

Thank God Famous Art Doesn’t Have YouTube Comments

There is some fantastic art on YouTube. There are also some hideous comments on YouTube. Probably more of the latter than the former. But hey, at least there aren’t YouTube comments on all art. The folks over at Buzzfeed decided to gaze deep into that horrific alternate universe and whip up this amusing glance into…

How to Make the Worst YouTube Video in the World

Have you noticed this trend in YouTube? You watch a video on YouTube. Maybe it’s a minute, maybe it’s two. Maybe you laughed, maybe you didn’t. But then there are 5 minutes of additional post-video video that tells you to either subscribe to their other channel, add them on Facebook, tweet out a shoutout, click…

YouTube’s Getting a Fantastic, Functional Makeover on Android

Google’s YouTube app is getting a functional, stylish makeover Android today. Along with an updated, Google Now-esque, card-based design, you’ll also be able to enable your ADD by playing videos while looking for others, and devouring whole playlists. Bet Microsoft is jealous. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-is-super-pissed-at-google-for-breaking-its-yo-1150559202 In the new version of YouTube, all you have to do is…

Idiot Criminal’s YouTube Vids Lead to Biggest Gun Bust in NYC History

New York City just saw its biggest gun bust in history. At least 19 people where involved in selling a nightmare arsenal of over 254 weapons, toting deliveries into the city by bus, using backpacks and suitcases. And Instagram and YouTube helped crack the case. Aspiring rapper with questionable judgement Matthew Best made the stupid…