Funniest Gaming Videos on YouTube

The strong relationship between gaming and online video content has proved itself recently with Amazon's famous purchasing of streaming site Twitch. Watching others play video games brings a certain kind of entertainment that's hard to pin down, but stems from the inherently social roots of the pastime. A playthrough can be tense, frustrating (watching a player get to the third chapter of story mode without knowing how to change weapons can make or break a person), but the best clips are watched by millions because they are funny. Tobygames and Pewdiepie create hilarious content that is shared across the internet every time they pick up a controller, but sometimes the real humour doesn't come from these twenty minute sections of gameplay, but from those who have taken games, glitches, characters and scenarios, made it their own and uploaded it for the rest of the world to have a two minute giggle at. So, here are some of my favourite YouTube gaming videos that will never fail to make me laugh.

 

 

Laddergoat

 

 

It’s often the simplest things that really hit the hilarity hardest, in this case what starts out as a personal attack on a goat turns into one of the most absurdly funny glitches I have encountered so far. As the goat makes his escape and slowly begins to rise up the ladder, it’s not difficult to see why the player breaks down. What ensues is 4 minutes of infectious laughter, repeatedly subsiding only for the player to catch a glimpse of the goat and collapse once more into fits of eye-watering roars, exclaiming “oh you, ladder goat, you so random”. I think we can all use a little more laddergoat in our lives.

 

What Slender Man Does Behind Your Back

 

 

If you need something to get rid of the pervading fear Slender Man places on your everyday life, then here it is (or it just might make it worse). For some reason, we fear this misunderstood, bop-loving tall guy in a suit, here we see him in an off moment. Slender’s 30 second dance party was created by FloboFilms and provides some comic relief for one of the most psychologically challenging characters to grace the PC scene.

 

Real Life Mario Kart

Taking to the streets, Remi Gaillard breaks down that fourth wall of gaming and throws some bananas at vans. Dressing as Mario and revving the engine of a fairly unstable looking kart, he pulls away from traffic lights, dodges some traffic, takes a pit-stop to fill up and takes first place in front of a clapping group of tourists. Possibly the best bit of footage however, is a pulled over Mario making an escape from an Accident Response van in his tiny kart.

 

Pacman Ghosts Discuss TV

 

 

I never thought about the ins and outs of their TV-watching, I know now that that was a mistake.