Videogum

Template:Hangon Videogum (Videogum.com) was founded in 2007 as a sister site to Stereogum, with a focus on movies, TV, and Web videos. Editors Gabe Delahaye and Lindsay Robertson quickly gained a cult following for their humorous commentary on pop culture and the internet, spawning an online community known as the Monsters who continue to perpetuate a variety of internet memes through the sites commentary system, and via Twitter. The site has subsequently garnered several nominations and accolades, including a win at the 2010 ECNY Awards for "Best Website".

Recurring Features

• What's Up With Topher Grace?: Perhaps Videogum's most well-known feature where the site periodically checks in to see what is up with actor Topher Grace and Grace's current career happenings.

• You Can Make It Up: A weekly piece of celebrity fan fiction. Unlike most fan fiction, Delahaye's pieces parody the celebrity, combining some current embarrassing action or statement from that celebrity. For example, after former model and talk show host Tyra Banks pretended to have rabies on an episode of her show, Delahaye wrote a piece called "Tyra Banks Has Rabies in the Forest," which cast her as a blood-thirsty animal.

• The Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time: Videogum's longest running feature in which Gabe attempts to watch as many reader nominated films as he can in an attempt to find the worst. Known simply as "The Hunt," the inception for this feature came from Gabe's feelings after watching the film Death Sentence starring Kevin Bacon. There are many rules governing what films may be nominated including availability on Netflix, whether or not it is intended to be horrible, and inclusion of "A or B-list" actors amongst others.

• Why Don't You Caption It: Feature in which the site's commentors are encouraged to create their own caption for an absurd or funny photo selected by the editor.

• Teen Korner: A satirical commentary of teenage trends and interests written in slang.

• Taking One for the Team: This most recent addition features author and comedian Joe Mande participating in activites or attending events that would generally be mocked on Videogum. This feature has seen Joe performing many tasks, such as reading Glenn Beck's The Overton Window and attending a live taping of The Marriage Ref.

• Best New Party Game:

• Monsters' Ball: The Week's Best Comments: This weekly feature (well, weekly except when special things like Comic-Con happen) compiles the 5 highest rated comments (rated by the Monsters themselves), the lowest rated comment, the Why Don't You Caption It winner, and an Editor's Choice comment (chosen by Mr. Delahaye himself). This feature allows all Monsters to come together and find out who was the funniest in the past week, who was the biggest jerk, and to gripe about Steve Winwood's appearance or non-appearance on the list.

• Videogum Movie Club: On weeks which see the major theatrical release of a movie relevant to the site's interests, Gabe posts a short review and open discussion of the film is encouraged in the comments section.

• Duh Aficionado Magazine: Not an official site feature but a very common recurring theme. The title is usually given to posts which feature news which serves to reaffirm the generally held belief about the subject.

Recent

In 2009 Robertson was laid off by Buzz Media, leaving Delahaye as the sole voice of the site.

Videogum has been mentioned in several prominent publications including the New York Times.

Videogum is believed to be be partly responsible for canceling the Jeff Dunham Show.

External links

• Videogum website
• Videogum Twitter Feed
• Interview with Site Editor Gabe Delahaye
• Jeff Dunham Flap
• Tumblr Site for Videogum's Official/Unofficial Monster Archivist, Werttrew
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• Monsters on Last.FM