Five on Friday: Favorite Bad Lip Reading Videos

Like many of you out in Internetland, I'm a peruser of YouTube. I like to start with a video and just watch similar vids until I feel like I've reached a sufficient level of WTF-ery. Case in point: Bad Lip Reading. I first came to know of BLR several years ago when they parodied the video of my dear Michael Bublé, to which he posted an amazing response video. I've been a fan ever since and love to keep up with their newest releases. Since joining YouTube on March 21, 2011, BLR has garnered 4,146,593 subscribers and 424,525,344 views. I believe it, too. Their 2012 Presidential Election videos were insanely popular and I see their pop culture parodies circulated often.

Is There a Connection Between Breaking Dawn Pt 2 and The Hunger Games?

...aside from the Lionsgate association, I mean."Another Twilight post?" you ask. I am feeling quite alright and I promise I do not have a fever, however there was something I had to share. Last night on the Entainment Weekly Facebook page, a new image from Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 was released. Looks pretty harmless, really. It's just Renesmee (the vampire spawn of Edward and Bella) and her mother, played by Kristen Stewart looking at some sort of locket. Granted, I have no context for the picture, but are the inside of some sort of magical blanket fort to protect the child from the Volturi? I don't know... BUT! the point of this post is to examine one specific part of the picture.

So yeah, they're examining the locket and some such, but looking at the picture, I noticed the insignia on Bella's jacket sleeve. It looks oddly like the seal for the Capitol city of one dystopian country named Panem.

So yeah, if you look closely at the seal on the sleeve of the jacket, it looks an awful lot like the seal of Panem.

So, it's not exact, but it's very similar. Maybe a nod to The Hunger Games in Twilight? They're both properties of Lionsgate after all. Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but...

I know this is bullshit, but I wanted to make a Conspiracy Keanu meme.

Anyhoo, I don't know anything about the jacket that K-Stew is wearing in the picture, but the insignia really does look like that of Panem.

That's all.

Good day.

Image from Breaking Dawn Pt 2 courtesy of Lionsgate and Entertainment Weekly.

K-Stew Cheats on R-Patz and the World Mourns True Love

True love is dead, ladies and gentlemen. It was confirmed via statement from Kristen Stewart today that she did in fact cheat on her boyfriend Robert Pattinson with her Snow White and the Huntsman director. Now, I've not seen it, but I've been told that SWatH is pretty terrible, so I wonder just what kind of direction she was taking. *wink wink nudge nudge* Honestly, I feel horribly for Robert. Why would she want to cheat on him? For a sparkly vampire he's not unfortunate looking. I quite like the previews for his new movie Bel Ami. I know that he'll be able to move past the role of Edward Cullen.

I really don't think that Kristen needed to issue an apology, but she did and it's out there. She's 22 and her director was 41. Is there anything wrong with such a vast age difference? Absolutely not. (I personally would not couple myself with anyone that much older.) But he was married and she has/had (status is currently unknown) a boyfriend. There's just forty kinds of messed up about this. If you're going to cheat, even if you're under public scrutiny, don't get caught. Don't make yourself look like any more of an emotionless asshole than you already do. I'm looking at you, K-Stew.

Now, I have no dog in this fight. I can't stand Twilight, but I respect the people that do. I know that people were absolutey devastated with this news, because they translate the fictional relationship of Edward and Bella into the IRL (sort of) relationship of Kristen and Rob. And no one was more upset than Nutty Madam, a vlogger from England, who goes all sorts of Chris Crocker.

PS I was pretty upset when I found out that Clay Aiken was gay. So, there's that...

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