Jimmy Kimmel loves a good tantrum. When he's not having celebrities read mean tweets, he's tricking kids into thinking their parents ate their Halloween candy. In a new seasonal celebration of kids' tears, Kimmel got people to submit pics of their kids meeting Santa and instead of being merry, freaking the f**k out.
Remember to emotionally prepare your kids for sitting on the lap of a fat, bearded stranger:
2015 was a landmark year for celebrities boldly posting photos of themselves in which they're not wearing makeup but still look hot. These courageous images proved, time and again, that many famous people are so good-looking that their attractiveness transcends having to wake up extra early to sponge on foundation. And in the subtext of many of these makeup-free photos is the heartwarming reminder that these people are also really rich, and can afford great skin products. Below, counting down to #1, are the 9 best no-makeup selfies of the year.
Model Gigi Hadid shared this lying-in-bed selfie, which proves that she wakes up fresh-faced and, seemingly, glowing? Hey, that's why they pay her the big bucks.
While this poolside pic of Beyoncé was widelytouted as a standout no-makeup selfie and was urgently ushered into the canon, it kind of seems like she is wearing some type of bronzer and the presence of both arms in the photo suggest it's not technically a selfie.
What this selfie lacks in makeup, it makes up for in pure golden light coming straight from the sun and probably some special A-list-only filters. Alternatively, it's been previously posited that actress Sofia Vergara has a candle inside her like a jack-o-lantern.
In October, supermodel Cindy Crawford pointedly went out and about in South Beach wearing a bikini and no makeup to remind everyone that the fake "unretouched" photo of her that went viral earlier this year is not real. And she made her point.
Australian singer Ricki-Lee Coulter shared this actually foundation-free photo along with a story about self-acceptance, and then confidently shut down the weirdo freckle shamers who started trolling her. This covered three essential themes of the no-makeup selfie: no makeup, trolls, and confidence.
Last month, Adele took the makeup-free photo to the next frontier: the cover of Rolling Stone, baby! This photo has the added element of looking like it was taken 20 seconds after she stepped out of the shower, which is an interesting twist on the just-woke-up no-makeup concept.
This simple, beachy portrait (yes, this no-makeup selfie is so good it earns the title "portrait") was a strong contender for best of the year. It features legit no-makeup, or as actress and activist Laverne Cox hashtagged the photo, #washfacenobase. And the caption explains how she meaningfully uses her time without makeup to relax, let her skin breathe, and show that trans people are beautiful.
@Manstagram_ that awkward moment when this tweet is irrelevant cause she's slaying both ways #wannaborrowmyglassespic.twitter.com/4BXge1Ch4K
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) June 10, 2015On a surface level, this is a certifiable selfie in which its subject is not wearing makeup. But more importantly, actress/singer/former Disney star Zendaya actually used this picture to shut down trolls by tweeting it at a sexist Twitter account, thereby revealing the latent power of the no-makeup selfie.
And the best no-makeup selfie of the year is undoubtedly this entry from Tyra Banks in which she used the caption to call out all other no-makeup selfies ever. Along with this truly bare-faced photo, Banks accused other makeup-free pic posters of lying about the use of filters and retouching. Then she declared her own photo to be "raw" and, the most important quality of all for a no-makeup selfie, "real."
Justin Theroux has joined Instagram. Do you know what this means? Behind-the-scenes shots of Jennifer Aniston in her secret wedding dress laughing at Courtney Cox's toast at her secret wedding. Candids of Jen and Justin relaxing at their luxurious Bel-Air mansion on a Sunday afternoon. Food photos of special brunch ingredients you didn't know existed because they're only available to famous people. Or, at the very least, social media images taken by the lead actor from HBO's The Leftovers.
Here's his first, and currently only, photo. It's a black-and-white selfie featuring some mountains.
Hopefully he'll give everyone time to process this image before inundating followers with additional pics. There's a lot to consider.
Every December, DJ Earworm takes the biggest pop tracks of the year and combines them into one massive mashup titled "United State of Pop." 2015's installment, subtitled "50 Shades of Pop," has just dropped, and it contains enough catchy hooks to invade your every waking thought well into the new year. Enjoy!
Watching a video where a baby is screaming doesn't sound relaxing, but Dr. Robert Hamilton turns everything around with his little technique that involves folding an infant's arms, shaking its tiny diapered booty, then spinning it in circles like you're working a butter churn. You'll finish this video feeling very chill yourself, and ready for some milk and a nap. The narration is also very soothing, especially since Dr. Hamilton seems to genuinely love babies and the parents clearly trust him.
Aw, see?? Since this adorable tutorial went viral on Reddit, Dr. Hamilton posted this update on YouTube, which confirms he is the cutest man to ever stick a needle into a child:
Nick Offerman is sitting by a fire and sipping scotch for 45 uninterrupted minutes to bring toasty holiday cheer to everyone. It's a fun reboot of the vintage TV tradition of broadcasting a yule log for those that don't have a fireplace. It's also a fitting project for Nick Offerman, the embodiment of masculinity. Just last year for the holidays he serenaded us with a song about his love of whiskey. When he's not singing about scotch or sipping it by a fire, he's teaching Jimmy Fallon how to gorge on fatty meat.
Go ahead, indulge in the hypnotic trance of his warm gaze. You'll be classier and warmer just for having watched it:
We need more new holiday traditions like this one. It's far superior to hipster dudes decorating their beards with ornaments, or yule log videos that feature Internet celebrity cats.
The Late Late Show with James Corden uses LA to its utmost advantage. The traffic in Los Angeles is perfect for Corden to spend some nice, long quality time singing and chatting with celebrities like Stevie Wonder and Justin Bieber. Wednesday night on the show, Carrie Underwood helped the British Corden get into the cowboy spirit by taking him to buy his first pair of cowboy boots. Along the way, they sang "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" with the enthusiasm of Zoolander and friends.
Watch them sing along in the car as Jesus takes the wheel.
Alexsandro Palombo is an artist who takes images from popular culture and manipulates them to talk about social issues. He recently tackled domestic abuse for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. Using Photoshop, he made celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Miley Cyrus look like they'd been beaten up, then tweeted the images with the caption "Life Can Be A Fairytale, If You Break The Silence." In a press release he wrote:
The biggest accomplice of violence is the silence, a silence which every year kills or causes permanent disability more than diseases or accidents. Domestic violence is a social cancer that knows no boundaries nor social status, it can affect anyone, whether you’re an ordinary person or a celebrity. To defeat him you need to use the antidote of culture by educating and raising awareness on Respect and Equality.
And here they are:
According to TMZ, the Kardashians are not happy. They say that people should have a right to decide whether or not they want to participate in the project, so they're threatening to sue. The photos are from a fashion show in Paris last year.
Palombo also did a similar thing with Disney princesses that suggest there's no such thing as a Happily Ever After.
After a historic tour welcoming everyone to the stage, Taylor Swift is thanking the crew that made it all happen backstage. In an effort to become the world's best boss, Swift is flying 125 crew members from the tour to a private island off the coast of Australia. Your boss better up their game this holiday season.
She publicly thanked her crew on her Instagram account (the most popular in the world), telling her 57 million followers:
So stoked to be able to take my band and crew on a vacation at the end of a long and wonderful tour. For all their hard work this year, they really deserve it. Thank you to Hamilton Island for taking such great care of 125 of the people who work tirelessly to make sure the 1989 World Tour stage gets built, the lights are on, the costumes are made, the guitars are tuned, and the show goes on. (Aussie press, I love your enthusiasm but my birthday isn't for 2 weeks and it'll be a quiet one this year. Let's take it down a notch:)
Despite having 125 of her closest friends on Hamilton Island with her, she particularly bonded with a bird:
Swifty shared more pics, and yes, sadly you didn't make her top 125:
She was later joined in Australia by her family and a koala. Together all four of them have 10 thumbs:
The Internet loves wacky characters who get caught doing embarrassing, funny, and unexpected things. But behind the joke there's always a real person who has to deal with the fallout of being the most famous person on YouTube that week. We've seen follow-ups in the past from Success Kid, Ermagod Girl, and that poor make-up meme lady; plus continuing updates from the Charlie Bit My Finger kids. Now New York Magazine has interviewed some of the first viral video "stars," many of which wish they'd never gotten the spotlight in the first place. What follows are some of the darker excerpts of their experience that will make you reconsider whether you want to repost the next viral video you see.
It's important to remember that Caite Upton was just a teenager when she embarrassed herself with a terrible response at a Miss Teen USA pageant. Teen. It's right there in the title! It's very easy to laugh at how stupid she sounds, but imagine if you got punished like this for losing it on camera when you were still in high school:
I lost a lot of close friends over it — people I’d been friends with since I was 10, people I grew up playing soccer with. One group of girls took me to this party at the University of South Carolina, and I walk in, and the entire USC baseball team surrounded me and bashed me with the harshest, meanest comments I had ever heard. And somebody once put a letter in my parents’ mailbox about how my body was going to be eaten alive by ants and burned in a freak fire. And then it said, in all caps, GO DIE CAITE UPTON, GO DIE FOR YOUR STUPIDITY. That’s the kind of stuff people would say to me for two years.
Chris Crocker used his viral fame as Britney's most emotional defender (which he claims was a character that he's never been able to escape) to change his circumstances and develop an Internet following, but he definitely gets a lot of hate:
There weren’t many viral videos yet, and I encountered cyberbullying before I was aware what it is. At 19, I couldn’t handle it, and it kind of caused an identity crisis. That wasn’t the way I wanted to be introduced to the world. But in the moment, I just thought, Okay, I have to run with this, as my ticket out of Tennessee. Because no one’s going to take time to learn the backstory, like how my mom was on meth that same year. Which is ultimately why I ended up deleting my YouTube. Now I just use Facebook. On YouTube, with the anonymity, I would log in and be like, “Hey guys, here’s an update,” and the response would always be “Go kill yourself.” On Facebook, I feel comfortable, because people have to actually log in, and you can ban them.
These two might be the only folks that figured out how to shut down their fame and also correct a mistake they regretted—using a Chris Brown song as a soundtrack to their viral vid. Because of YouTube's negotiations with Sony Records, every time it plays, Brown gets royalties. Their video came out shortly after he beat up Rihanna. The couple asked viewers to donate to a foundation that supports victims of domestic abuse, and it's added up to about $60,000:
We rode it for a few days. But then we sort of hit this point where we had to make a decision — we either need to get on this internet-sensation train, or turn off our cell phones and hide in the basement. So that’s what we ended up doing. We really turned off our phones and sent an email to family and friends, who were getting hounded also, that said “We’re going to try to shut this down collectively.” Like “One, two, three, don’t answer the phone.” For the most part I think we’re happy with that decision.
Ted Williams had been living on the street when he was discovered for having a perfect "radio" voice. This video of him went viral, and his life spun out of control after that. Now he's focused on charitable work around homelessness and veterans:
It was ridiculous. I mean, who wouldn’t enjoy all this quick adulation? But it became invasive. I was like, “Oh, God, you gotta know my mother? My children? My girlfriend?” We sold my story to NBC for an exclusive, but I’d given out my mother’s address, and CBS This Morning went and found her. Took her away and sequestered her in a hotel in Manhattan so they could have the 17-year reunion of me and my mom. They finally called and said, “Ted, we’re going to take you to see your mother,” and that excited me, but I had no idea there were going to be 35 cameras there.
My platform is simple. First, I want to change the way the power structure deals with homeless military veterans. After all of their years of service, and them protecting the freedoms of Americans, they come back only to become discouraged and disenchanted. They can’t find housing, they can’t find nothing. Secondly, homeless Americans, period—I want to eradicate that.
It's hard to say what exactly David feels about this video, because his dad does the talking. David is now 15, and maybe his lack of interest in talking to reporters is related to being a sulky teenager. Or maybe he's just annoyed with his dad for taking the choice out of his hands when he was only a high-as-hell child! This is what his dad says:
I don’t regret doing it. I will say that moving forward, as David gets older and this thing continues to follow us, it does give me pause to think about when we should just turn all of this over to him, because he’s going to be an adult. And how are we going to navigate that? You know, he’s a teenager now, so he’s very sensitive to attention to himself — he’s a little bit shy. Though there are times where, if it’s a celebrity and they want to engage with him — especially if it were Tim Tebow or somebody like that — I think he would want to pull out the card.
To read more interviews, check out the full article here.
Remember the classic Disney Channel show and Shia LaBeouf-starrer Even Stevens? Remember the character Beans, the annoying kid who lived next door? If you want his autograph, go find Santa at Sunvalley Mall in Concord, California. Unless that seems like a really depressing thing to do that could potentially be humiliating for all involved. However you like to celebrate the holidays.
The actor who portrayed Beans, Steven Anthony Lawrence, is "all grown up," as they say. And he's working as Santa's Helper at a mall. Excited fans have been posing with him and sharing the photos on social media.
So why is this happening? There are a few possibilities. Other publications are speculating that this could be role research for Lawrence's upcoming 2017 elf-centric holiday film, Holly, Jingles, and Clyde. But it seems kind of early for that, plus could this really be considered "research"? Not to be presumptuous about Lawrence's acting methods or elf life, but working at a mall is probably different than actually working at Santa's workshop.
The other possibility, which is pretty crazy but just think about it, is that Lawrence took on a seasonal job to make extra cash.
Wow, that got real. Here are more silly photos:
If you haven't heard, Playboy announced this summer that they were going legit. They will no longer free the nipple. Or the vagina. No nudes, dudes! Playboy is now going to be a magazine read solely for the articles and naughty cartoons about boners. Of course, the mag has been making a living publishing airbrushed pics of mammary glands for over sixty years, and they wanted to make a big to-do about whose breasts would be featured in their final naked edition. And it's boob queen Pamela Anderson!
This is great news for any die-hard Baywatch fans, and bad news for Jenny McCarthy, who was hoping for the honor herself. Looks like it's better to support PETA than anti-vaxxing.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Pamela Anderson says the only thing that gave her pause was whether or not it'd be okay with her sons. It seems creepy to ask your sons if you can show the world you tatas, but it was actually just considerate. She describes her conversation with 19-year-old Brandon and 17-year-old Dylan thusly:
I said, 'Hef just called, he wants me to do the last cover of Playboy,' and he goes, 'Mom you've got to do it. We're older, we're not embarrassed anymore of you. You know, we think you're great.' He was so excited. He may have high-fived me! And then I asked Dylan too, and Dylan's like, 'Mom, you know you've done it all.' I don't know what to say but they were really excited for me, and I was excited too.
If you're curious about Playboy's titty swan song, the issue will be out December 11, along with an interview with Anderson by James Franco. That will probably be weird.
Ashton Clark is an honors psychology student at the University of Tennessee who has undergone a transformation to look like Barbie. She hopes to continue her studies in med school and become a psychiatrist. She's actually not the first to attempt a transformation into a human Barbie, as a Ukrainian woman is also doing a pretty good job. There'a also a couple going for the Barbie and Ken combo. However, Clark says she's having trouble with people taking her and her academic goals seriously following her transformation:
For years, I was terrified of doing the ‘Barbie look’ because I thought people would make fun of me. But for me when I look ‘fake’, I feel more like ‘me’ than I ever have been in my life. This is how I like to look. It may not be natural but it’s ‘me.’ People are always so taken back when they meet me because I don’t fit into the stereotypical mold they’ve placed me in because of my ‘artificial’ appearance. They expect me to be an airhead or shallow.
Here's a comparison shot of Clark before and after her transformation:
And here are some current glamor shots:
Clark even commented about her recent coverage in the press on Facebook. She'll of course update the post to include Someecards:
If she feels the most natural and comfortable as Barbie, then that's exactly how she should look. After all, that's the Barbie way:
The throwback photo that Krysten Ritter shared yesterday would pair perfectly with her new show, Jessica Jones. For every one episode of a dark drama that you anxiously view, look at one adorable and funny #tbt. In this current television landscape, it's inadvisable to watch intense antihero fare and then go right to sleep. The human brain is not equipped for those kind of dreams.
Ritter tweeted the photo below, which depicts her childhood self in a class photo. She wears a turtle neck and white legging underneath a neon printed dress, and accessorizes with thick socks, white gym sneakers, a thick headband, and huge, clear-framed glasses that are actually probably being worn by 10% of Williamsburg dwellers at this very moment.
Ritter wrote, "It gets better kiddies!!!" followed by an emphatic string of emojis. Although it looks like she was having a pretty good time back then, too.
"I Love Ugly," a New Zealand menswear brand that also seems pretty douchey, is getting flack for "hip" new jewelry advertisements featuring some awkward boob touching. The ads depict anonymous bedazzled mens' hands touching anonymous women's private parts. People have accused them of using women as objects to sell a product, which seems like a pretty fair assessment, since that's pretty much what they're doing. Here are some of the less-explicit (but still NSFW) photos (more examples can be seen here):
And here are some of the reactions on Twitter:
After getting so much criticism, I Love Ugly tried to turn the tide of public opinion by releasing pictures of a woman wearing the jewelry and touching a man:
Most people thought this just made it worse, though, arguing that objectifying men is not a solution to sexism, as well as arguing that featuring a man of color as the one being objectified is racist:
The company had the following to say on the matter:
The best way to protest is to not have enough money to afford their clothes in the first place:
This dad wanted to get something fun for his kids after they did so well in school, but not without having a little fun himself. As the older son prepared to do an unboxing video to review a Transformers toy, his younger brother opened his box to reveal that his Transformer had transformed into a bag of vegetables. His big brother, meanwhile, was all smug until he saw that he faced the same fate. Hilariously sad tantrums of disappointment ensued.
Cruel parent pranks are the best.
Jeff Louis, a 22-year-old pizza delivery man from Mentor, Ohio, took to YouTube to express his gratefulness when he got a huge tip on a delivery to a church. He was tasked with delivering pizzas to Life Point Church for one of their morning services. His shift didn't start until later in the day, so he had to get to work earlier than usual to make the delivery. When he arrived with the pizzas, he was told to bring one of them up to the pastor on the altar. He thought it was weird, but complied.
Because it was the holiday season, the pastor gave him a $100 tip. It was supposed to be a simple gesture of holiday kindness to accompany the sermon, but then the whole church got up and started giving Jeff tips. He walked out with $700.
In his thank you video, taken in his car, Jeff tearfully thanks the church. It turns out that he's a former drug addict trying to "stay clean and get [his] life back," and the church's actions made him feel "blessed."
A reading from the Book of Pizza: "When the pizza deliverer came all the way from Bethlehem, God said unto thee, tip him gratefully, for you will be one with the lord."
