Johnny Depp’s Six Favorite YouTube VideosTurns out, if you had your own yacht and private island, you’d probably just sit around watching funny videos — pretty much like you do now.
ByLane Brown
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What Hath Lady Gaga Wrought?Prepubescent girls singing “If it isn’t rough, it isn’t fun” on YouTube, that’s what.
Ice T Battles Soulja Boy in Rap’s Lamest-Ever YouTube BeefIce T is sparring with Soulja Boy on YouTube. Or, rather, he’s sparring with Soulja Boy on YouTube with the help of his 16-year-old son, who actually knows how to operate YouTube.
Shame on You for Downloading Ghostface Killah’s New AlbumGhostface Killah, unimpressed with the Soundscan numbers for his latest record The Big Doe Rehab (35,000 sold, so far), has once again taken to YouTube, this time to scold his 115,000 MySpace friends for downloading the album on the Internet.
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What the Celebrities Are Watching on YouTubeCelebrities: so like us. They spend hours on YouTube too! To celebrate our online video special in this week’s issue of New York, we asked Russell Simmons, Amy Sedaris, and The Office’s Rashida Jones (along with some slightly-less-famous bloggers, artists, directors, advertising executives, professors, and comedians) what they’ve got bookmarked. The results may surprise you!
Big in Japan: ‘The Butt-Biting Bug Song’We’re not sure why, exactly, but in Japan “The Butt-Biting Bug Song” is more popular than “Chocolate Rain,” the Star Wars kid, and LOLcats combined.
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Guns N’ Roses Handily Outdone by Guy on YouTubeIn what is easily the second-most-impressive hand-related YouTube music video we’ve seen all summer a manualist plays “Sweet Child o’ Mine” using only his palms and fingers.
Adios, Lonelygirl15It seems like only eleven months ago that we found out lonely girl Bree Avery wasn’t really a home-schooled video-blogging 16-year-old, but rather the invention of a filmmaking duo from California — and now she’s dead.
Kanye West’s New Video One-Upped in Advance by YouTube HandsKanye West may have hired profligate music-video legend Hype Williams to direct and the stunning R&B singer Cassie to co-star in the megabudget, special-effects-laden, three-months-in-the-making video for his next single, “Stronger.” But he’s already been shown up by a no-budget YouTube sensation.
