BuzzFeed Week In Review: Rapture Edition!

Chris MenningMay 20th, 2011, 6:02 pm

The Rapture Is Upon Us!

They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” (Rev 6:10)

We have just a little over 24 hours left, if you believe Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping, owner of Family Radio. Camping’s theory is based on his own rather unique take on Biblical calendar interpretation, and while we’re still scratching our heads on the rationale of his math, we’re inclined to agree that humanity is fairly well screwed.

In case you have any doubts about our impending doom, we’d like to remind you that every cast member The Jersey Shore probably makes more money than you, bored college kids are pouring vodka directly into their eyeballs, and Oprah has said her final farewell. In fact, we have 50 Reasons Why The World Is Definitely Ending.

BuzzFeed Founder and CEO Jonah Peretti even sent out this memo to the entire staff outlining our plans to keep the company afloat after he and other key members of staff are in heaven.

Many of us will be attending Rapture parties this weekend, and boy do we have playlists!

We have so much rapture material to get through before the rapture so we’ve put together a dedicated Rapture Feed, bringing together all of the best blasphemy in one handy page.

In other news, Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a former member of his house staff, Mildred Baena.

The seven-year old internet meme known as The Lying Down Game went viral in a big way in Australia last week where it has come to be known as Planking. Some lazier news agencies have tried to construe it as a deadly overnight sensation because one careless participant lost his life. I reiterate: the only thing new about planking is the name, but the activity has existed internationally for the better part of a decade.