Around the same time that someone in the New York Mets organization said, “Hey we should do one of those Harlem Shake videos”, the crazy kids of the Internet were already neck deep in the latest meme – Hadouken’ing or Kamehameha’ing, depending on whom you ask. In this sudden photo craze, people pretend like they’re hitting their friends with energy blasts, to which I assume that our old friend Zhang Feng just laughed and said, “Pretend all you want” before blasting a hole shaped like his hand in the side of a mountain.

The first apparent sports team to try its hand, or should I say feet *snorts*, at this new meme is Japan’s Yokohama F.Marinos football club. Players Shingo Hyodo and Manabu Saito pulled off their own tributes to Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z, and the club posted them to Twitter. Needless to say, when one sports team does something cool and new, dozens if not hundreds will follow.

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The adorable banner at the beginning of this video reads FLY UP HIGHER OUR JUMPERS. Little did they know they’d be witnessing a Daiki Ito fly lower than any man in history.

The YouTube description doesn’t do it justice:

The japanese ski jumper Daiki Ito slips on the jump from the beam and head down the ramp track. Fortunately, he is stopped just before takeoff.

Firstly, it doesn’t look like he slipped at all; it looks like he’s never been on a pair of skis before and is trying out the “pizza, french fries” gag from ‘South Park’. Secondly, there’s no “fortunately” about him being stopped before takeoff. Ito earned every second of the hilarity that would’ve come from watching him ass-slide off a ski jump ramp, and the guy who stopped him should be barred from these types of events for life.

Next time you “slip,” just fold your arms over your chest and pretend you’re on a waterslide.

[h/t to Daily Of The Day]

In only a week, YouTube user “hippykiller1” – a handle after my own heart – has amassed more than 5.1 million views on his video entitled, “The World’s Shortest Escalator”. But what on Earth could that incredibly confusing title mean? As it turns out, it means that Mr. Killer1 believes that he indeed found the world’s shortest escalator at the More’s department store in Kawasaki, Japan. As the narrator explains, this 32.8-inch exercise in laziness is apparently a “thing of beauty and magnificence”, but to me it sounds like something you’d find in a Central Florida Walmart.

Unfortunately for hippykiller1, though, his claim that these moving stairs hold the Guinness World Record for being the shortest is a bit unfounded. In fact, it’s completely unfounded, because it’s nowhere on the Guinness website. Shock and controversy in the world of meaningless data to begin 2013!

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Remember when Gangnam Style was something we could enjoy, before your mom and dad found out about it and the NFL on Fox mummies started Gangnam Style dancing as a “fun gag?”

Well, enjoy NO SURPRISE EXERCISE now, before these start showing up at Madonna concerts, or whatever.

Japanese comedy duo COWCOW presents “No Surprise Exercise,” the latest trending exercise regimen that no one is talking about. (via The Daily What)

The clip is after the jump. Trust me, if you liked the banner image up there, you’ll love the video.

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Have you ever wanted to see Billy Beane lure players into romantic situations using a Brad Pitt mask? Have you ever wanted to see Hiroyuki Nakajima battle Yu Darvish in a samurai versus cowboy fight? If you answered yes to either of those questions and/or want to feel like you’re on drugs, here’s the latest from Taiwan’s Next Media Animation. (via NMA World Edition)

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Yesterday, I wrote a thing about WWE’s pro wrestling-themed charity/parody ‘Jingle Bells’ video, a clip that you either found hilarious or soul-crushing depending on how seriously you take fake fighting. If you watch it long enough, it goes from one side of the spectrum to the other, both ways.

With Leather reader Colin Plint dropped in to mention that wrestling Christmas carols are nothing new, and shared this link of the roster of Japan’s Pro Wrestling NOAH singing Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Christmas Eve” back in 2005. It features some legit pro wrestling legends (including Kenta Kobashi wistfully singing his ass off and the late Mitsuharu Misawa singing from behind his desk) and a few stars fans of mainstream U.S. wrestling would recognize, like Too Cold Scorpio (WWE’s Flash Funk) or Nigel McGuinness (of Ring Of Honor and TNA fame). Not to mention former ROH Champion Takeshi Morishima wearing a San Antonio Spurs jacket.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is “weird, endearing videos of pro wrestlers singing Christmas songs.” Video is below.

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