Chase Hoffberger
Chase Hoffberger reported on YouTube, web culture, and crime for the Daily Dot until 2013, when he joined the Austin Chronicle. Until late 2018, he served as that paper’s news editor and reported on criminal justice and politics.
Creator John Duarte said he was looking for a special way to celebrate the president's public endorsement of gay marriage.
On Jun 14, 2012 by Chase Hoffberger
John Statton is looking to raise $186,000 to fund a two-day, colony-planning session in November with a Kickstarter campaign, "Creating a Private Mars Colony: The Time Is Now!"
On Jun 13, 2012 by Chase Hoffberger
Rob Manuel, a cofounder of popular British-based web community b3ta, releases part one of his "existential rock opera about the Internet."
"It is acceptable to wear the same underwear two days in a row, but no longer," Link told the 2012 graduating class of Harnett Central.
Even Boston Red Sox fans can appreciate this charming, perfect reenactment of that fateful October night in New York.
On Jun 12, 2012 by Chase Hoffberger
Creators Luc Gross and Bernhard Bauchshed hope to shed light on the bizarre world of Internet commenting, overrun with spammers and trolls.
John Lutz, best known as Lutz on 30 Rock, stars as a hotel employee in a new YouTube comedy for Above Average Network.
An infographic reveals the details behind Kickstarter projects that fail to reach their funding goals.
U.S. law enforcement arrests 190 people in a global child porn crackdown just one week after hacktivist group Anonymous launches an operation to expose pedophiles on Twitter. Coincidence?
On Jun 11, 2012 by Chase Hoffberger
YouTube's most prominent rapper throws down a literary endeavor worthy of Game of Thrones.
Comedians The Sklar Brothers deliver all the news that's fit to tweet in their new weekly pop-news variety show, "The Tweekly News," for My Damn Channel.
All it takes is a decent idea, a convincing sales pitch, and a reward system that looks like it's been arranged in earnest.
Is the EPA invovled in a nuclear cover up? Hardly.
On Jun 8, 2012 by Chase Hoffberger
This homemade video from the Family Bones has even earned kudos from OK Go.
A social studies teacher inadvertantly made his private life very, very public to his high-school class.
