Tag: OOPS

YouTube's April Fools' gag -- a "1911" button that turns any video into an old-timey silent film, complete with syncopated piano and sepia tone -- maybe isn't so hilarious for all videos. Gawker points to 9/11 footage, the Rodney King beating, WikiLeaks' infamous Apache helicopter footage and newscasts of the Japanese tusnami as examples of video not exactly benefiting from YouTube's ...

Well, you dun goofed, Internet. When 21-year-old St. Lawrence University student Maya Gilsey took to Reddit to solicit donations for Golisano Children's Hospital in Syracuse, New York, the hive mind immediately branded her a fraud. A Redditor named Beertime led the pack against a user named mtcame07, who pledged to shave her head in solidarity with cancer-stricken children at Golisano, while also ...

Let's just chalk this one up as the biggest text-messaging blunder of the day (of which we've had a few). In this case, Australian cricket champion Shane Warne did a number on his wife (soon to be ex) when he accidentally sent her a text message meant for his secret lover. His message, which read, "Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open," was meant to go to the woman he ...