There is a whole unexplored region of YouTube out there, populated solely by the sort of freaks and weirdos who would make Tay Zonday and the Star Wars Kid look like the coolest, most together people around. We say it's unexplored but you can usually tell when you've stumbled into this part of the video sharing website when you're watching clips with the comment "I'm in the weird part of YouTube again." Kind of like those messages players leave for each other about hidden dangers in the Dark Souls games. Most of these curios never become viral sensations, maintaining an air of eerie mystique popularity would take away - except in the case of Webdriver Torso. Since its creation on March 7th, 2013 the channel accumulated several thousands of subscribers and viewers in just seven months of activity. Which is pretty impressive, considering each of the 80,000 videos the user uploaded were just eight-second clips of different sized blue and red squares moving across each other whilst mellow electronic tones blooped away in the background. For months people wondered what the heck they were: the internet equivalent of a numbers station? Some kind of glitch in The Matrix? It eventually got explained, but we prefer the mysterious weirdness of the videos without context.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
