Warning: Fred
Every weekday morning, an A.V. Club staffer sifts through the popular viral videos of the day for Videocracy, inevitably encountering the latest clip from a handful of vloggers whose huge subscriber numbers guarantee their ascendance on the chart. They are, with maybe one or two exceptions—we generally like Natalie, who acts out bits of observational comedy with her adorable self—the most irritating people on the planet. The most irritating of all: The spazzy adolescent character known simply as Fred, whose signature touch is a speeded-up chipmunk voice. In fact, whenever one of his videos surfaces, we simply write “Warning: Fred,” just to keep from having to watch it ourselves.