Vine, the Twitter-built social media platform that's taken the world by storm (at least until Instagram video became a thing), is a great source for all sorts of weird, goofy, interesting short video clips.

And then, there's the fun bit of horror known as the #SmackCam trend, which seems to involve hitting people upside the damn head and laughing about it.

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According to his Vine profile, Aaron VanDeventer is an 18-year-old senior from Grand Ledge, Michigan who enjoys track and thinks it's hilarious to slap little girls in the face until they cry. A video he posted of two assholes harassing a tearful girl has been been retweeted 625 times and counting on @VineLoop, "The Official account for the YouTube channel FunnyVines!"

Vines of boys hitting girls are instant #SmackCam hits; here's a video of a guy violently slamming a girl on the head with heavy jug. She appears to be so stunned that she falls over.

You don't need to wonder what your 8th grade sleepover parties would've been like if the grade's Queen Bee had Vine; just check out these two videos. This school bus #SmackCam is like something out of a warped John Hughes movie.

Don't mind me while I lose objectivity here, because what the fuck is this?

I get that people have played terrible pranks on each other in the past, and that being a dickhead isn't a new thing and isn't simply a millennial thing, but this simply defies comprehension, honestly.

Interestingly, and unsurprisingly, it appears to be mostly done by a bunch of dickish bros that are hitting each other (With shaving cream! With powder! With ice!) because smacking your friends in the face is hilarious. Basically, it's actually something more terrible than the "bros icing bros" trend, because you only have to drink Smirnoff Ice if you get "iced."

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While looking for an outlet where I could complain about my latest customer service let down (*coughCox CommunicationsCough*), I stumbled upon a website completely dedicated to providing disgruntled customers, such as myself, a place to bitch and moan.

Humorous, honest and little mean-spirited, PissedConsumer.com, is the first consumer review site that allows users to post their reviews on its homepage, so it says.

A part of me has to wonder if its not a scam in itself, as it charges users $5.99 per month for such visibility. However, with more than 5 million viewers per month, it could be worth the cost.

If you're like me and you would never pay to complain, no matter how bad the service, check out their Facebook page.

17,189 other irritated customers did.

In a bit of goofy fun that's happening with increasing frequency, Google's latest Doodle (the image that displays above the search bar on Google.com, which changes frequently on holidays across the world) is another animated attempt at celebrating geeky, science culture.

And this time, it's a point-and-click game!

Today is the 66th Anniversary of the Roswell Incident, where a UFO supposedly crash-landed in the New Mexico desert. From the U.K.'s Telegraph:

On July 8 1947, several witnesses reported seeing flying saucers at Roswell, New Mexico.

Suspicion was fuelled after Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut announced in a press release that a "flying disk" had been recovered that had crashed on a ranch near Roswell.

Witnesses also claimed to have seen alien bodies at the crash site.

The incident soon became largely forgotten until 1978 when physicist and "ufologist" Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who had been involved in recovering debris in 1947. Major Marcel claimed that the US government covered up the existence of an alien aircraft.

His claims sparked years of conspiracy theories, which the US government attempted to put to an end with the official 1997 report Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash.

Google's animated doodles have been rolling through quite a bit lately, with mini-games based on sports during last year's Olympics, a short adventure celebrating Star Trek, a mini-music video for Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's birthday, and so much more — it's almost like they're running out of things to do there, or something.

Mobile video-sharing app Vine, a Twitter subsidiary featuring six-second looping videos, quickly rose to the top of social media after debuting in January.

Although it was only available to iPhone users at the time, the app played a major role in not only social interactions, but in mainstream media as well. Take for example, the Boston Marathon Bombings.

At first, I thought Vine was just another way for users to document themselves doing stupid things, or washed-out celebrities to try to make a comeback. (Anyone remember Andy Milonakis? He currently has 437,081 Twitter followers, and posts videos on Vine almost daily.)

But rather quickly, Vine had became a staple of the iPhone. Almost everyone with an iPhone was using the new app, posting videos of their vacations, shenanigans and everything in between.

Earlier this month, Vine finally released a version for Android users, though it may have been too late.

Last week, Instagram, a photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, released its newest addition—Video on Instagram.

With apps for both iPhone and Android users, the new update has set the bar for what social media addicts should expect.

Women, do you just not feel that special spark when you're by yourself, trying to experience spending time with, uh, "yourself"?

Well, believe it or not, there's an app for that. Or at least, it's coming.

HappyPlayTime is an app that's designed to help women experience the joys of self-love with the help of an electronic aid that you probably won't have to hide in a nightstand!

From the HappyPlayTime mission statement:

Sexuality is one of the most basic instincts of human beings. Being comfortable with your own sexual pleasure is a prerequisite to both being able to healthily accept pleasure from others, and pleasing others. How can you exchange pleasure with someone else if you don't understand what your own body likes? That's why masturbation, and learning how to masturbate is such a fundamental life lesson.

Unfortunately for many women, there has been a cultural stigma that blocks access to self-stimulation. HAPPYPLAYTIME is here to eliminate this barrier as much as possible. By talking openly and lightheartedly about female masturbation, we are taking the first step to becoming truly sexually liberated.

And the first step, apparently, includes a cartoon vulva named Happy, showing you how to touch yourself properly.

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• Choice quotes: "You make me moist!" and "Oh my, I'm getting all hot and bothered."

The game is still currently in development (it's in its alpha build right now), but if you feel like giving it a quick run-through, head to HappyPlayTime.com to sign up to help test the game.

[h/t: Kotaku and Gamification]

YouTuber and self-described "DIY Laser Guy" Drake Anthony (better known as Styropyro) has become relatively Internet famous for his videos featuring his love for lasers, chemistry and explosions — which is awesome.

But today, we're going to focus on one thing — his massive, self-made, 3 watt laser, capable of setting things on fire in spectacular ways:

From the video's description:

Here my BEAST 3000mW blue laser goes up against a bunch of flammable stuff. Most things light INSTANTLY when placed in the beam of this laser! This is the most powerful handheld laser that I’ve ever used!

This laser uses the new 9mm 450nm laser diode and runs on two 18650 Li Ion batteries. The housing is a custom machined “Sirius” host. I usually try to refrain from using the term “lightsaber” when referring to my lasers but there really isn’t much else out there to describe this laser.

To be honest I don’t even like handheld lasers this strong, but I knew by subscribers would like this! This laser is legal to own in the US, and I wore goggles while shooting this video.

So you know, those Lithium Ion batteries he mentions above? You'll typically find one of those in your average laptop.

For comparison's sake, your average, everyday red laser pointer typically uses under one milliwatt, so as to not cause injuries.

Yeah. I want ten of these.

Memes, increasingly, make the Web go 'round, and nothing has struck the Internet's weird, cat-obsessed imagination quite like Arizona's own Grumpy Cat.

Well, someone out there thought "saturating the Internet with a silly lookin' cat's head isn't enough...this cat needs a movie!" Someone else agreed with that thought.

Now, those two people might be in line for raises:

Broken Road Productions, the film studio that brought you such classic titles as Jack and Jill and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, has negotiated a deal for a family film starring the Internet’s favorite curmudgeon, Grumpy Cat. Bad news: It will probably not be 90 minutes of following her while she crawls around her Arizona home, which is what the Internet really wants.

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Unfortunately, they’re looking to “build a big family comedy around this character,” according to producer Todd Garner, so odds are this movie is going to try to have a plot and characters and lame stuff like that. Grumpycat will probably even talk, too. If that’s the case, then they should get the adorable voice actress that Tumblr Storyboard used in the video below. That might make the inevitably hacky jokes just a little more bearable.

I disagree, Geekosystem writer Victoria McNally. This is the Garfield movie, given new form and shape — and unfortunately, won't have anything to do with Bill F—king Murray.

How do you feel about this idea, Grumpy Cat?

• Us too, Grumpy Cat. Us too.

[h/t: Geekosystem]

Arrested Development has almost (but not quite) enveloped our lives here lately — a number of the nerds around the office have grown to love the show, and may or may not have devoted many hours this weekend to watching (and re-watching, and re-re-watching...) the newest episodes, which went live on Netflix on Sunday.

But the best running gag of the newest set of episodes features a watermark included on the frame below:

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• See that watermark? That's what we're talking about.

What you should be noticing is the "Showstealer Pro Trial Version" watermark, which the creative minds behind the show slapped onto all flashback footage of the first three seasons — as if to say they couldn't get the original footage, and thus had to rip it from a DVD or a similar source. This has enraged people — so much so that there is now a Tumblr dedicated to their anger.

But that's not my favorite part of the uproar — this is:

People, John McCain just wants to make your lives easier.

First, he's going after TV providers by crusading for you to have a la carte cable programming.

His new mission: Making it so you don't have to mess with the f—king App Store to update things on your iPhone.

For clarity's sake, McCain was finishing his line of questioning to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding Apple's fairly brilliant (and legal) tax avoidance and offshore cash storage practices, before throwing in a dig at Apple — or opening up an opportunity for hundreds of people to mock him for being old.

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• ...I'll just take your word for it.

Now, for whatever reason, there are a number of these folks (like any faction in society, really) that are having trouble finding that one, true partner who loves Faygo just as much as they do. Thus, they've taken to OKCupid, the famed (read: free) Internet dating site, so they can find someone who they can make sweet "woop woop" to, all night long.

That said, some Internet hero has created okcupidjuggalos.tumblr.com, where one can examine the profiles of of lovelorn Insane Clown Posse fans — presumably to mock them, though I hope that someone, somewhere, can help those poor souls with their shot at love.

Because, I mean, love is a miracle — and how the fuck does that work?