We're often accused of wielding a cyclist slant here at Gothamist, so allow us to give you an unfiltered perspective from one cheery Staten Island motorist. The Staten Island Advance pointed us in the direction of YouTube user "we5leyz," who has a camera mounted on his dashboard that captures him blowing his "train horn," cursing at jaywalkers as he speeds through intersections, and making illegal U-turns. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] This YouTube video has it all: a highly intoxicated person, an unsteady documenter, very little information, no closure, and an MGMT soundtrack. The footage was uploaded last night, and we've contacted the uploader to get more details about the scenario. But until we hear back, let's discuss: should the fellow straphangers have made more of a hands-on effort to help this guy out? Or were they all (except for the MTA worker who has a brief interaction with him) too drunk from the big game, too? more ›

This fad has been around for a while, but the Cinnamon Spoon Test is still happening out there in YouTube-land... and Brooklyn. Basically, you try to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon, preferably while one of your friends films you. You then upload it to YouTube, where there are about a million other videos like it, each ending... badly. Because no one can beat the cinnamon spoon challenge! Not even these bros—because all of the underchin facial hair in the world can't save you from the dry burn of cinnamon. And yet here we are, in 2012, with new "Cinnamon Spoon Challenge" content uploaded every day! more ›

Discovery's long-running Cash Cab game show offers money to taxi fares who answer trivia questions correctly—so it is almost surprising it took so long for somebody to try the opposite. Enter Fare Play, a new webseries in which some cah-razy kids catch a cab and then torture their driver by making him answer trivia questions for tip money. And we thought you tipped drivers for their driving! more ›

The One Where Someone Makes A Montage Video Of An Old Sitcom! Yep, someone has made a supercut from old episodes of Friends, which they call "a veracious montage" that "sheds new light on homophobic attitudes in contemporary TV culture." But was Friends really homophobic? There was a lesbian character (Ross's ex-wife) and a cross-dressing father (played by Kathleen Turner)! more ›

Peter Haskett and Raymond Huffman were two violent, alcoholic roommates living in a run-down apartment complex in San Francisco in the late '80s. Their near-constant drunken arguments kept two recent college graduates next door from getting any sleep. So the two friends, "Eddie Lee Sausage" and "Mitchell D.," began recording what would later be referred to as the "Shut Up, Little Man" recordings, named after Haskett's constant, boozy retort to his roommate's profane protestations. more ›

Finally, New York City gets its own Hurricane Irene theme song! Check out our new YouTube Hero singing his original sure-to-be hit song, "Hurricane Irene Tracks To New York City." Click play, and sing along to lyrics like: "category 1, category 2, tropical storm, we don't know yet?" Every perfect storm deserves a perfect song, and this one has simply rendered us speechless. more ›

In a move that will hopefully end the playground inferno imbroglio that has crippled Cobble Hill, three more teenagers in addition to Max Layton have turned themselves into authorities and admitted that they were "attempting to film a YouTube video based on the film Jackass," the Daily News reports. Bairn Sweeney, 16, is the only one named as the other two are younger than 15. Sweeney and Layton are being tried as adults. All are charged with felony arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing, and "they have all been released into the custody of their parents pending their court dates." It could be worse, they could be in Rikers which we hear has gotten so Euro and weird these days. more ›

Last week, five-year-old Jesse Koczon was in tears over the fact that no matter how much he wanted it, he was "too little" to be the governor of New Jersey (video below). But become a YouTube sensation and ye shall receive! At 3:30 this afternoon, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will appoint Koczon honorary governor of the day. Spokesman Kevin Roberts said, "We thought it would be a nice thing to do to bring them in. It sends a good signal to kids around the state who are public service-minded to keep their dreams alive." Or to just whine until they get what they want! more ›

Meet Bloody Loco, one of the many colorful characters that make up this city. If you're lucky, maybe you'll run into him on the subway! Just make sure you recognize, ASAP, or else you'll become the co-star of both an improvisational piece of street theater, and a YouTube video. This all went down on the 7 train yesterday (Common Courtesy Day!). Some call it an epic intimidation fail... more ›

On December 13th during his concert at MSG, a fan accidentally kicked Usher right in the noggin after being brought on stage for a strange, sexy, role play with the performer during his song "Trading Places." While things were getting steamy on a chaise lounge, the fan swung her leg over Usher's head and... the rest is YouTube history. Now that fan, Donnetia Rabb, has issued a formal apology. She says: more ›

Five High School students on Long Island have been suspended for watching a schoolyard fight between two boys and not doing anything to stop it. The vicious brawl at the Half Hollow Hills High School East in Dix Hills ended up on YouTube (it's since been removed), and the teens who taped it and cheered the fighters on each received suspensions lasting... one day (today). So they essentially got a long weekend out of it. And yet one student at the school thinks even that slap on the wrist is unfair. Free the Half Hollow Five! more ›

Fox 5 reports that two boys got into a fight outside a school on Long Island! And a classmate videotaped it! Dog Bites Man, right? But the twist here is that school administrators are not only punishing the fighters and the kid who videotaped it, but they're also going after all the students who watched without intervening. And rightfully so; the fisticuffs get pretty vicious at times, and you can hear one bystander wonder why nobody's intervening. And then everyone laughs. On the plus side, at least nobody died, like when those New Jersey teens videotaped their fatal beating of a restaurant worker as he sat on a park bench. more ›

From the braggadocio files: NYPD are now regularly monitoring Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to try to catch big-mouthed criminals who like to brag about their illegal activities. They caught Manhattan thief James Roberts that way; he boasted about his new bling on MySpace days after mugging a man at a Chelsea bus stop, and even put pictures up wearing the watch and ring he stole. Police called Facebook "instrumental" in busting up a ring of drug dealers who sold coke, ecstasy and dope at nightclubs like Rebel and the Roseland Ballroom last year, and gangs regularly have their own MySpace pages with easy-to-identify pictures. "It's almost become unfair. Facebook and MySpace are killing these guys," said one law-enforcement source. more ›

If you haven't noticed, the Guggenheim has taken over YouTube today—and vice versa—as part of their YouTube Play event. Check out the preview here, but you can catch it live tonight from 8 to 9:30 p.m., as well as tomorrow (more details below). more ›

Hey, remember that guy throwing f-bombs during the Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner U.S. Open match, which raised the ire of a middle-aged woman and her 75-year-old dad and the three of them got into an ugly, perfect-for-Youtube fight? Well, Manhattan resident Joseph Pedevill is back in the news—and it's allegedly over an interview one of his neighbors did with the NY Post! more ›

Everyone appreciates a good, cheap laugh at a viral video, whether it involves a newscaster and a chicken or a grape harvest. But once you involve children, things can get creepy pretty quickly. Which might explain why Josh Eastman of Bridgeport, CT. was charged with impairing the morals of a child. more ›

Carla Franklin may have degrees from both Duke and Columbia, but it seems she never took that class on Welcome To The Internet. The former model is suing Google as a means to have them unmask a cyberbully who called her a "whore" in the comments of her YouTube videos. more ›

We've noticed a recent uptick of YouTube street fight videos landing in the Gothamist tips inbox (tips@gothamist.com, y'all!), and after spotting yet another street fight video on NYC the Blog, we had to wonder: Are there more street fight videos surfacing this month than usual? Is the record-breaking heat making the natives more brawl-prone? Based on an a highly unscientific analysis of fights uploaded to YouTube since April, we must conclude in the affirmative. more ›

Well, according to the NY Times' Neil Genzlinger, maybe the super adorable videos of them are the problem: "These dog and cat videos are sapping the United States, and civilization in general, of its greatness. Notice how we can’t seem to get anything done anymore? The Second Avenue subway is unbuilt; the World Trade Center site is a wasteland; the century-old water and sewer systems under our cities are unreplaced. Look back through history and you realize that the great eras of human accomplishment — the Roman Empire; the Renaissance; the Industrial Revolution — had one thing in common: no videos of cats playing pianos or dogs going down sliding boards. People got things done because they weren’t being distracted." Whatever—long live MARU!!!! more ›

It's a little bit sad that out of all the beautiful venues in New York City that could have visually complemented the sound of Arcade Fire, they went with MSG—but now you don't even have to step foot inside of the venue to get the concert experience. Like so many other big live shows these days (we live in the future!) it will be live streamed on YouTube. The band will be playing there August 4th and 5th, following the release of their new album The Suburbs, and the latter show will streamed live. more ›

FYI, teens still deem it "cool" to post videos of fights on YouTube. Now, back in our day, we just posted videos of ourselves humping ottomans and defending Britney Spears, but these kids, they are out of control. And teachers at Progress High School and the School for Legal Studies in Williamsburg say somebody ought to do something about all these students fightin' and YouTubin'. But who?! more ›

A DIY videographer captured footage of this street brawl that went down outside of Penn Station, supposedly on March 27th. In the viral video, a man with a stick goes after a fellow in a green sweatshirt, who fights back with what appears to be a set of brown umbrellas. Two more guys punch him, as a huge crowd looks on and a traveler wheels by with a suitcase, barely giving them a glance. At the very end you'll hear someone yell out a single word, maybe "cut," but it's unclear whether the fight was in fact staged. more ›

Viacom and YouTube are amidst a battle over copyrighted material, and the two media giants are currently going head-to-head in the courtroom. The network claims the online site posted their content without permission; their $1 billion lawsuit was filed in 2007, and the Post reports that some damning emails were revealed in court this week. more ›

Last month the World's Fastest Nudist was just a mysterious, fanny-pack wearing man trotting through the boroughs, scaring young children, and posting videos on YouTube. After getting coverage both online and on screen — it even made it to the desk of Anderson Cooper — the veil has been pulled off: he's just another marketing tool, and we've all been duped. more ›

Teens will be teens, punching friends while someone else films them so the video can be posted to YouTube. Only this time, the puncher was arrested. According to WCBS880, an argument over a video game controller escalated into an incident where 17-year old Ryan Cody beat up a 16-year old boy in the Massapequa Preserve. Cody was arrested for second-degree assault. Nassau County Police Sgt. Anthony Repalone said, "We have a 17-year old who is being charged with a felony assault. You have a 16-year-old victim who had severe injuries to his face, recquiring additional surgery. The fact that they videotaped this and put it on for entertainment is disheartening, to say the least." more ›