THE VIDEO SHELF · daily mail satire
The Daily Mail Song
A comedy song by Dan and Dan that summarizes the British newspaper The Daily Mail using only its headlines. It satirizes the paper's habit of claiming everything causes or cures cancer.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used as a running joke or satirical shorthand whenever the Daily Mail is cited or criticized.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- dananddanfilms
- Topic
- daily mail satire
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I hate to post trite things on HN but if you haven't heard of the Daily Mail there is a good (and humorous) summary of the paper made into a song using only their headlines: [VIDEO]
simonsarris on Hacker News · 2011-10
In Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.>Relevant: [VIDEO] Ahhh this takes me back. What an amazing video. Made 11 years ago and it's just as accurate as it was back then. Honestly? Fuck the Daily Mail. Also The S*n, Daily Express, etc.
jason0597 on Hacker News · 2021-04
In Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.