When Filmmaking Met YouTube: A Chat with Sammy Paul

Superficially, YouTube may seem only a few things. Challenge videos and all-caps click bait, tags and tours, and lots of #spon. There’s a unique and automatic association the public continuously makes with the video-sharing site, one that differs from those…

The 12 Vids of Christmas

Do you find yourself too busy to sit down and watch Elf for the eleventh time this month? Would seeing A Christmas Story again make you want to shoot your eye out? Instead of resorting to the Hallmark Channel for your Christmas addiction,…

TYF’s Picks for The Game Awards 2015

Geoff Keighley of the long dead G4 gaming network had spearheaded a new moment in video game history with his first The Game Awards show last December, which exclusively aired on streaming networks from Twitch.TV to Xbox Live. Critics and developers in the…

Jon’s Movie Review – Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

When Marble Hornets, the YouTube serial, came on the scene, it was welcomed with open arms. The response to it was frenzied. People hung on every clip, eagerly waiting for the next one, but dissecting the current one frame by…

Music News: Rixton Release Debut Album

The British band, Rixton, released their debut album, Let the Road, on March 3rd. To celebrate the release, the boys hosted a Hotel-A-Thon, which was a 12-hour live stream. During the Hotel-A-Thon, the lads talked to fans and played pranks,…

Jon’s VOD Review: “Cyber-Seniors” is Optimistic to a Fault

  We’ve all seen those hilarious YouTube videos with senior citizens unknowingly doing something out of character or contemporary. If I were to ask my own grandparents if they’d like to go “viral,” they would probably look at me and…

TYF Vlog: Top 11 Alternative Holiday Films Part 2

Here is the conclusion to The Alternative Holiday Films list!   If you missed part one, here it is!   If you’re interested in watching any of these, here is a compendium of hot links of the aforementioned films, all…