Depths of YouTube depravity

Sometimes you just gotta suck it up when you're a full-service game show blogger.

It ain't always Jeopardy and What's My Line and Pyramid and other high-class stuff from Griffin and Goodson and Stewart. Sometimes you gotta go to the depths, the abyss, the circles of hell, the metaphysical abomination that is...the cheap Internet game show.

All right, once in a while the shows are sort of fun. You Posted That is from a YouTube channel called Smosh, which I had never heard of but then I don't spend most of my life on YouTube. I tried the first episode and lived to tell the tale, or at least write the blog entry.

Three online "celebs" I had also never heard of conspired with a host, announcer and musical team - all of whom, wait for it, I had never heard of, either - to play games with their old social media posts. For instance, they tried to fill in blanks in various tweets that they wrote four or five years ago. This sounds like a laugh riot, no?

Well, sometimes it was a bit humorous. Like when one of the contestants decided to play Goodson and critiqued the scoring system. He got docked five million points when he goofed a question. The eventual winners wound up dancing with their future ghosts. The spirits seemed to enjoy the party.

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