Some of you are likely familiar with Everything Is Terrible, those brilliant curators of the VHS universe who sometimes offer bits of sheer brilliance to this column. (P.S. It's Puppet Week over there.) They already do a great job of adding a layer of the surreal to what is often an already surreal piece of video history, but now entering the fray is Deeper Understanding, doing what the others have done, but with a bit more creepiness and Ryan Trecartin-style surreality. Behold.
Today, your palate cleanser is a three-fer.
Above is a little gift-wrapping how-to turned really unsettling work of art. Below, a hilarious look at early 90s computing, and several spliced-together anti-bullying videos that have taken on whole new meaning. We hope you enjoy, as we do, the teacher who calls up about a dozen kids to come and tell some poor kid that he's fat. Just as a demonstration.