Restoring Truthiness Rally Moves Forward with “Operation Strike of Truthiness” Nick Butler, September 7, 2010September 7, 2010 A few days ago we told you about a growing movement to get Stephen Colbert, host of the Emmy-award winning show “The Colbert Report,” to hold a “Restoring Truthiness” rally in Washington, D.C. Today, Supporters of that movement staged Operation Strike of Truthiness, an ingenious plan to get the terms restoring truthiness on both Google Trends and Twitter trending topics. If the image above doesn’t give it away, see if the operation was a success after the jump. Mission accomplished.As you can see Operation Strike of Truthiness was a success, and even if it wasn’t, our guts would’ve told us otherwise. Not only was it the #1 Google trend, but it was also #1 trending topic on Twitter, the #1 searched term on Yahoo, and the #1 searched term on Bing – and that’s the truthiness.The Colbert Nation now eagerly awaits tonights episode of “The Colbert Report” to see if Stephen answers their calls for truthiness. If he does, we’ll be the first to let you know.Remember, go to ColbertRally.com to get the latest on this movement and join the 100,000 Strong to Restore Truthiness Facebook group. News Social Networks Viral News colbertColbert Rallygoogle trendsOperation Strike of TruthinessRestoring TruthinessStephen ColbertTwitter
Viral Video Palooza: Superman Is Racist, Hipster Shore, Vandermemes, GLEE Thang, & Nic Cage’s Hair January 21, 2011Sitting at work bored on a slow Friday? Well, here’s a good way to kill about 15 minutes. We have a smorgasbord of viral videos, so check them all out after the break. Read More
Remix: The Rent is Too Damn UP October 20, 2010A video went viral on Monday that showed candidate Jimmy McMillan talking at a New York governor debate. McMillian is part of the self-created “Rent Is Too Damn High” party, and the video (which you can see here) is quite hilarious. Someone has already decided to create a mashup using… Read More
World’s Largest Time Warp Dance Record Set This Halloween November 1, 2010This is the 35th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so you know that this Halloween was bound to have some interesting tributes to the cult classic. We’ve already seen a GLEE episode, and now a Guinness World Record has been broken. Last night at West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval,… Read More