Awesome Videos

(NSFW: Language) Vine Compilations presents its picks for the best Vine videos of the year. Prepare for a 23-minute barrage of jokes, illusions, pranks, funny pets, parodies, twerking, and uhm, male twerking.

(NSFW: Language) After paying homage to New York’s hip hop scene, artist Jay Shells gives a massive shout out to West Coast rap. Animal NY once again followed Jay around as he posted rap lyrics in the areas they referenced.

(NSFW/Flashing lights) Is your life devoid of weirdness and nightmares? Let’s remedy that with this Adult Swim feature about a man who makes virtual replicas of people. From Alan Resnick, the comedian behind Alantutorial.

(NSFW: Language/Flashing lights) Two bros name their favorite games of 2013. And then some. These two characters seem to be made of pure dork anti-matter. Either that or they’re the Web’s comments sections personified.

If you think Jaimie Mantzel’s Attacknids are cool, check out what DIY Laser Guy did to the toy robot. He attached a 5W blue laser to a Stryder Attacknid and made it so he could fire the blinding beam via remote. Pew pew at 1:05.

Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison responds to a tricky reader challenge – to identify the color of scented magic markers simply by sniffing them. We’re just impressed he didn’t get any ink on his nose – we always do.

To prove that the car battery it sells works in extreme cold, Canadian Tire commissioned a truck with a body made of nothing but ice, and then started it with a battery frozen to -40°C. Its body weighed a husky 14,000 lb. More here.

(NSFW: Language) It happens to even the trendiest of us. You see something online that turns you into the embodiment of ROFLing, so you hype it up to your friends and urge them to watch it. This is why we send links via email.

What does it take to be a G? Holding stuff sideways is a must, knowing geography is a plus, as is messing with the Netflix account of your adversaries. That and more from YouTube’s resident life coach Mr. Forthright.

(NSFW) As we’ve seen before, Street Troller inserts Street Fighter and other fighting game characters into fail videos, making it seem like the sprites started the fun. It even has a super combo finish.

(Gross) Viagame recently had a gamer and a pro driver race on the same track with the same car. Folks pointed out that Rooster Teeth did the same thing months ago with funnier results, and they were right. Plus it has more milk.

Put on your hot pants, get up offa that thang, and crank up your speakers for the next 45 minutes to honor The Godfather of Soul in this great compilation of all of his performances from Soul Train back in the 1970s.

Man at Arms caps the year off with a much-awaited project. Tony Swatton and his crew made a life-size replica of the Falchion, Chrom’s sword from one of the year’s best games Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Another impressive LEGO machine, this one built as a collaborative effort with multiple modules. It seems to go on forever, sifting countless little balls through thousands of LEGO components. See if you can follow the blue ball the whole way.

KUTV reporter Brooke Graham says she sometimes faints when a high altitudes in the cold. So here she is out in Utah, in late December. But she’s not about to let a little thing like unconsciousness get in the way of her job.

(NSFW) News Be Funny is back with the best of the worst news broadcasts. Watch as news anchors and reporters deal with naughty slips of the tongue, “high-minded” fans, frisky animals and more. That freestyle bit was priceless.

Dean Zimmer has faced physical challenges since birth, but that hasn’t stopped him from being an amazing rock drummer, having opened for acts like Styx, Kansas and Foghat. Documentary by Ross Harris and Stanley Gonzales.

Eclectic Asylum Art spent a total of 50 hours making this realistic portrait of Santa Claus on Microsoft Paint. It’s not as jaw dropping as Kyle Lambert’s iPad finger painting, but come on. It’s freaking Microsoft Paint.

Another beautifully-synchronized combination of dance and projected light by Japanese performance troupe Enra, directed by Nobuyuki Hanabusa, performed and choreographed by Saya Watatani and Maki Yokoyama.

Musician Austin Criswell delivers a soulful and bone-igniting performance of Coldplay’s Fix You, accompanied by his ukulele. A few of our other faves from Austin: I’ll Follow You into the Dark, and Build Me up Buttercup.

The Memphis Tigers’ men’s basketball team did their best Globetrotters impression during their latest game against the SE MO Redhawks. They got a steal, pulled off three different touch passes then capped it off with a dunk.

Drunk guy on the floor. Check. Annoyed cat. Check. Off-key song cover. Check. This short, nonsensical video clip has everything required to make for an Internet classic. What song would you serenade your cat with?

Not to be outdone by New York City, these cities drop items of their own, from a pair of pants, bologna and er, a playing card. A few others raise things instead of dropping them. Now you can drop knowledge on New Year’s Eve.