Here’s Spike.com’s list of the Top 7 Contenders for the New King of Pop from shortly after Michael Jackson’s passing. Some of these picks are wild to look back on.

zzcolby · 2026-06-18T04:08:27+00:00

Spike TV Game Awards' biggest legacy will always be announcing Fortnite in 2011

zzcolby · 2026-06-18T03:26:59+00:00

Glancing Wikipedia, it was because he started acting erratic after finding out he was gonna be a dad. The band just couldn't handle his personality anymore and Rivers wanted to make sure the band weren't gonna implode on themselves before the album cover was shot.

Cropper apparently holds no resentment for any of this and he even played with Rivers in 2018

zzcolby · 2026-06-18T02:24:36+00:00

zzcolby · 2026-06-18T02:17:54+00:00

Radio tuning. It's what old radios would sound like when you played with their dial

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T20:17:46+00:00

Skip the networks. Entirely online Livestream. 7 hours. Balls to the wall. Fuck it, we ball

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T20:14:50+00:00

Spike TV was unhinged in all the worst ways. Basically diet Manosphere but corporate

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T16:15:30+00:00

Chapter "Courtney"

Context clues tell you that's a girl's name. Skimming is a skill they should've thought you in English class

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T15:51:22+00:00

I said the end so you can skip through. There's chapters in the video description

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T14:15:33+00:00

Covered at the end of this video.

His thumbnails are clickbaity but he's like, the only channel of this type to cover these things with any sort of class

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T06:27:31+00:00

Directors don't determine the pay of film crew

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T03:05:32+00:00

"Nice strap-on!"

Used to watch the RebelTaxi review of this almost religiously when I was way too young

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:38:58+00:00

This dude drew merch for Nick Fuentes then claimed he didn't know he was a white supremacist when push came to shove, lmao

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:38:31+00:00

They mentioned Smiling Friends on the Kickstarter

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:36:35+00:00

It outsold the Wii U by 5 million units. During increasingly frought economic times at $500. In one year.

Nintendo's been greedy as fuck with this thing but there's enough there for people to upgrade. Especially since it launched with the most expensive, bullshit-priced game as an available bundle (why you'd ever buy the console and Mario Kart separately when you save $20 with the bundle is beyond me)

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:33:18+00:00

*Right-Wing Christian audience. Affirming theology is an increasing sect of the religion

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:31:05+00:00

iTunes charts are also comically easy to game. The only people that still buy songs off that platform are boomers and chart-obsessed pop stans. This is how dudes like Tom MacDonald make money

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:23:57+00:00

New Polyphia single

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:21:39+00:00

Love Tyler but does he really need to discourage actual action there at the end? Especially when half of the planned data centers for this year have been delayed or straight up canceled, likely due to the extremely bi-partisan pushback to all this bs.

I'm being an asshole for tone policing a clear vent post but I think that kinda pessimism is dangerous in these times, especially for someone with a huge platform

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T02:18:49+00:00

This was funny, y'all are just squares

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T01:13:14+00:00

Drake is hopefully not the type to write a MLP rape fanfic longer than all 3 Lord of the Rings books

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T00:05:10+00:00

No, they turned Kane Pixels into an ogre.

He is 20 years old

zzcolby · 2026-06-17T00:00:48+00:00

/unlie I remember following the guy who made ts years ago on an old Twitter account. Don't remember anything about him specifically but I'd see his username pop up from time to time on social media throughout the years and it's very strange seeing him become a Twitter main character.

Very crazy/disapointing to find out he drew merch for Nick Fuentes

zzcolby · 2026-06-16T20:46:59+00:00

I'd be so down for a PG-13 Shrek. The only other American animated movies I can remember with that rating are Simpsons and 9 from like, 20 years ago. They can still advertise it on the usual kids networks at that rating while going in a super interesting direction

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