While audio-splicing has been used in various parodies (including Autotune the News) for some years, pop songs made of news footage and soundbites exploded onto the scene this year with the U.S. presidential campaigns.

The UK audio-visual remix group Eclectic Method edited together this montage of apocalyptic scenes from various films in honor of the doomsday predictions for this Friday, December 21.

This monkey has surely been getting around.

The runner-up candidate for the cat of the year!

YouTuber TotalBiscuit provides a critique on the way mainstream media frames school shootings, which tend to focus on glorifying the attacker and blaming video games for the violence.