Trending now: Yam Ah Mee, Osama or Obama?

The Internet is a weird and wonderful place filled with people who make entertaining videos only for the pure joy of seeing them go viral. And as they provide much needed entertainment in an otherwise perfectly serious Monday morning we give thanks that they exist. Here is our selection of five of the funniest/finest/fascinating-est videos online right now: The Yam Ah Mee club Mix This video is by “fallensuperheroSG” who created a club mix of a speech by Mr.Yam Ah Mee, a Singaporean electoral official who appeared before the press to announce the electorate winners.

According to the documenters over at Know Your Meme “While it was a critical moment in the nation’s closely contested race, many viewers at home became fixated with Mr .Yam’s monotonous speech and indifferent expression, particularly on a legal clause that was repeated over 26 times: “Pursuant to Section 49, Sub-Section 7E, Paragraph A of the Parliamentary Elections Act…” What say this makes it big in Singaporean nightclubs? Gotta share! This impromptu musical by the group Improv Everywhere at a conference in New York, prompting the digital generation’s need to constantly share content across various social media platforms is witty, sung well and a very powerful earworm:

The Obama/Osama mixup mashup GotchaMedia published a compilation of over 20 news reports in which the announcer accidentally replaced “Osama” with “Obama”.   Google translation There’s something eerie and yet fascinating about a mecahanical voice set to a piano. Especially when it’s talking in Taiwanese. This is by the Taiwanese pianist Wiwi Kuan:

Silencing illusion And finally something to stare at. Literally. This is an optical illusion that demonstrates silencing, described in: Suchow, J.W., & Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Motion silences awareness of visual change. Read more about it here :