Redux Releases it’s “Worst of the Web Awards” for 2009 – Honoring and Shaming the Best and the Absolute Worst of the Web for 2009
The web can be a magical place, filled with wondrous visions like Robocop Riding a Unicorn and a real world version of the kid from UP. It can also be a place of unspeakable horrors and crimes against humanity like a kitten being drop-kicked into a wall or unstoppable memes that should have died years ago. At Redux, our community is pretty vocal about what’s awesome on the web – not to mention what deserves to be sent back into the hole from whence it crawled.
It is in that spirit, as we close out the first decade of the new millennium, that we present the first annual “Worst of the Web Awards” for 2009 – (we’ve also got some of our “Best of the Web” awards, just to play nice)
So here they are, the worst of the worst. Those things that, once seen, cannot be un-seen. They crush your soul, they make angels cry, their creators should experience a slow death with a spork. In a word, these web finds encompass all that is “FAIL”.
5) Calvin Grows Up, Does Taxes, Kills Hobbes
for those of us who were kids with Calvin and Hobbes, this one hits a little too close to home.
4) Cheetah Lady
The labored breathing, the insane ranting, the final plea for a condo. Grab your weapons, folks, time to do some exotic game hunting.
3) Brokencyde Makes us Want to Commit Homicyde
Did that 14 year old pile of streaked blonde hair and neon actually just CHOKE a girl? Are the lyrics just “let’s get freaky now” over and over and over again? We don’t remember anything about the four horsemen of the apocalypse cruising in an Escalade, but the end is definitely near.
2) Fish deep-fried, somehow stays alive
You just know it’s staring at a “Hang in there, kid” poster on the wall.
1) A KITTEN!?! REALLY? YOU KICKED A KITTEN!?!
This was the video that started it all – The Redux community reacted so strongly to this video that comments and emails started pouring in calling for our heads. To put it to rest – yes, we hated this video. No, we did not kick the cat ourselves. And, yes, the cat is fine.
Too gruesome to show (WARNING: Extremely disturbing video after the jump. Do not click this link if you love kittens. If you hate kittens, go ahead and click. We’ll be quietly judging you.)
Computer still working? Haven’t smashed it or overloaded it sending hate-mail to Redux? Good! Allow us to make amends:
Presenting the Top web finds of the year, as voted on by the Redux community.
5) Football player tackles own teammate
Ok, so this is technically a “FAIL” but, honestly, try to watch and not laugh at the reaction of the kid who just realizes what he’s done.
Football player tackles own team mate!
4) Sick steel drummer
Awesome drummer pounds out the new theme song for CSI Jamaica.
3) 91cm from himself
Man gets hit by a meteor and slips exactly 91cm from himself – What can we say? We’re suckers for art films
2) The one man flash mob strikes!
Either this guy has cojones of steel or Asperger Syndrome. Whatever the cause, the result is awesome.
1) Epic Bohemian Rhapsody
Redux recreates Bohemian Rhapsody as only Redux can – We love our community, this is just one of the many reasons why.
Really? We can handle ripping apart and eating a living, breathing fish, but not kicking a cat that ended up okay?
You make a good point, Tom. However, the two sacred cornerstones of the Internet are pornography and cats, and to act out against the latter in such a sacrilegious manner would predictably evoke a passionate disdain matched by nothing else I can imagine. I agree that it is decidedly unfair to the rest of nature’s creatures, though it’s their fault for not being as cute as teh kittehs.
Okay, you win.
Ugh, that poor fish is enough to make you go vegetarian…