Rann:  It’s easy enough to point out cool Youtube videos. We do it, just like every other blog out there.

But the gift that keeps on giving, I think, is to actually highlight user accounts. Users who will update with more content, that you might actually use the “subscribe” function with. And so, here five truly awesome ones are, in no particular order:

Team Four Star

Creators and publishers of DBZ: Abridged. These recut, redubbed episodes will be hilarious if you like Dragonball Z, hate Dragonball Z, have a vague knowledge of Dragonball Z, or just like goofy, near-nonsensical humor that isn’t just lolomgSORANDOM. Plus, we’re nine and a half episodes in, and they’re already most of the way through the Saiyan Saga, you can’t beat that for brevity. Plus it’s got fantastic comic voice-acting that arguably improves on some of the official voices, at least in the original early-season dubs.

The Lonely Island

It’s hard to discuss parody videos without bringing up Weird Al. His name has essentially become synonymous with the entire genre, and in the old days of the original Napster, typing in “Weird Al” was a good way to get not only his songs, but every other song parody that was, by default, attributed to him. This is all because Al Yankovic understood something that so many other satirists (such as, say, the losers that make the shitty Fill-In-The-Blank Movie franchise) failed to; that it wasn’t enough to just recreate a song or a scene and replace the lyrics with fart jokes, you had to understand what you were making fun of. You had to actually get it, and if possible enjoy it and be a part of it, before you could really bring the parody to its fullest.

While the guys of Lonely Island don’t base their songs off of someone else’s, the parody’s in the genre. I’m On A Boat is such a perfect parody of bling-bling rap videos bragging about all their cars and cribs, it could probably pass undetected as one to most people if not for the main two singers being melanin impaired. It’s not particular songs, but entire musical genres getting the perfect send-up here, in thoroughly NSFW ways (if you watch the good versions of the videos, that is).

And speaking of Weird Al…

Weird Al

A mix of old favorites and new stuff, including several animated music videos by the demented mind that brought us Retarded Animal Babies. Simple, straightforward, it’s Weird Al’s youtube channel, why aren’t you already subscribed?

(Sadly, while Al seems to have been cool enough to upload his own videos to youtube, he’s not quite cool enough to allow embedding. Aw, Al, I thought you were the coolest!)

Free Science Lectures

Little “edutainment” videos, some of which are about more purely sciencey stuff, some of which are about robot fucking dinosaurs. Robot fucking dinosaurs, man! Videos of the first moon landing to clips showing transparent cement, there’s lots of neat nerdy stuff here. The selected clip is chosen especially for Jim and Donna:

Neil Cicierega

Comedian and general goofball, but what everyone really cares about is that he made the Potter Puppet Pals. (Quit crying, Neil, you know it’s true. No, Neil, I don’t think you’re pretty, and no, I don’t care that I never take you anywhere anymore.) Amusing videos, and of course the place to go to find all the PPP videos without sorting through the dozens of different uploads on them, because everyone is just so certain that no one else has uploaded this video of “Wizard Swears” that they… got off youtube. ... Okay, seriously, what’s with that?

Of course, it wouldn’t be a top ____ list without a booby prize. And this is one hell of a booby that I’ve got to throw out there, in the hopes of sharing some of the same pain that being informed of his existence has inflicted on me.

Chris-chan

Oh god, Chris-chan. Just… oh god. Oh my fucking god. While on first glance he might appear to be your average assburger whiner who just doesn’t know how to regulate himself when given a webcam and an audience, this guy’s insanity and the sheer mindfuckery of his continued existence is hard to believe. The mind attempts to reject it, to classify him as perhaps the most dedicated and ingenious troll of all time. But alas, it appears he’s for real. A strange, stupid, shameless individual literally obsessed with his bastard creation, an unholy hybrid of Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog, Chris-chan is the butt of the whole internet’s joke. It may be bad to make fun of retarded people, but as God is my witness, I just can’t help exposing the rest of you to him as I have been exposed, like a lily-white Englishman exposed to the horror of elder gods and French-Canadians. If you’re truly seeking some mental masochism, check out his Encyclopedia Dramatica entry, or even worse, the ENTIRE WIKI devoted to him. (You can find the link for that at the bottom of the ED page, I won’t bother since the host’s down at the moment and it just links to… something else.)

Yes. He’s entirely serious. There’s a cache of his old videos to be found across Youtube, but you’re on your own for finding those… I only have so much heart for sharing my misery.