Jonathan Last

The Worst Thing Ever on the Internet
May 20th, 2013

I suggested to Galley Friend S.B. that this might be the worst use of the internet, ever: It’s Nick Denton asking his readers to pay for a video of some Canadian mayor doing the Marion Barry. So that Denton can publish the video and make money from it.

(By the way, I don’t know anything about this mayor, but I’d bet a cookie that he’s vaguely conservative. Check out the comments section.)

S.B., countered by suggesting that this video, of a Star Wars live cast doing a Gagnam Style dance routine, is worse.

He may be right.

SkinsFanPG May 20, 2013 at 5:15 pm

Is the Toronto Mayor conservative? He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (only Canadians would name a party both progressive and conservative and THEN use the acronym the PC Party of Ontario). They are a right-center party, but who knows what that means in Canada.

Galley Friend J.E. May 20, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Wait, didn’t we decide that Facebook was the worst thing ever?

Manny May 22, 2013 at 1:25 pm

The crack cocaine thing wasn’t that bad. The Star Wars thing was the worth thing I’ve seen in a while.

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