lol hi

The GOP Arcade

Play the games

An experiment in lightweight games that function as social and political commentary.

The New York Times, Polygon, Backchannel, Fast Co., NowThis, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., Kotaku, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, Elite Daily, Kill Screen, GOOD, Kotaku, Polygon, New Scientist, The Fader, Paste, A.V. Club, The Verge, BoingBoing, NY Post, Curbed, amNewYork, Gothamist, The Outline, Pix11, VICE, NBC, NY1, Mashable, The Verge, and more

Thoughts & Prayers: the game

Play the game

Made with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore

Built in under three days and launched after the Orlando shooting, over 80 million thoughts and or prayers have been sent with no discernible effect on gun violence.

Rolling Stone, CNN, BoingBoing, Slate, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., The Week

Lightyear.fm

Visit the site

Made with Mike Lacher, Brian Moore, and Mika Chernov

An interactive music video that shows you how far radio waves have traveled through space.

Wired, Kottke, The Takeaway, Kotaku, Reddit, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Star Tribune, IB Times, Gizmodo, Av Club, Fast Co., Webbys

Drunk Shopping

Made with Mike Lacher and Tiger Wang

A somewhat charming bot that texted you dumb shit to buy late night on Saturdays, you know, when you’re hammered. Acquired by Super Deluxe.

The Voter Suppression Trail

Play the game

Made with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore

The New York Times’ first 8-bit arcade game for their Op-doc platform. Nominated for an Emmy Award in Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture.

News & Documentary Emmy Awards, The New York Times, Engadget, Polygon, AV Club, Daily Signal, Boingboing

Unbaby.me

Watch the case study

Made with Pete Marquis and Yvonne Cheng

A browser extension that removed baby pictures from your Facebook newsfeed by replacing them with something better, like cats.

Seeing Eye People

Made with Buzzfeed and ImprovEverywhere

A helpful service for people who wanted to more efficiently walk and text.

The World’s Most Exclusive Website

Made with Jeff Greenspan, Doug Loffredo and Mike Lacher

A website that only allowed verified Twitter users inside. Some notables who got in: Jerry Bruckheimer, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, and hundreds of other assholes.

NY MAG Approval Matrix, Market Place, Boing Boing, SCPR, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Business Insider, Business Insider, Mashable, Buzzfeed, Neatorama, GQ, Trendhunter, PSFK

Cloak

Watch the case study

Made with Brian Moore, Jay Schaul, and Mike Kavouras

Cloak was an app that used location data from your social networks to let you know where all your friends, “friends,” and nonfriends are at all times so you never have to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network.

The Equal Pay Day Project

Made with Brian Moore

On Equal Pay Day, we created a livestream where we called out the gender wage gap by physically removing 21% off of products with a giant waterjet machine.

The Elements of F*cking Style

Buy the book

Co-written with my cousin, Jake Hansen.

After The Fucking Word of the Day went viral, I had the opportunity to pitch book ideas to publishers. The first thought: how about an English grammar guide that isn’t a total fucking chore to read? This helpful little book has sold over 25,000 copies.

Papermag, The Weekly Standard, RFT, Goodreads, The Today Show, Business Insider, Mellygoround, Guernica, I Do Believe I Came with a Hat, The Daily Caller, The Enthusiast, RFT, ACCLAIM Magazine, Cool Hunting, CNBC, Showbiz Sandbox

Troll the NSA

Made with Mike Lacher and Richard Baker (yep, my dad)

Built and launched in the wake of Snowden’s spying revelations, Troll the NSA was a call to arms to get people to jam up the state surveillance apparatus by collectively sending an innocuous sounding letter filled with possible terror “keywords” to each other. In under 24 hours, millions of emails were sent and Anonymous used it to bring down NSA.gov in a DDOS attack.

Know Your Meme, Young Turks, Animal, Young Turks, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, IBTimes, Daily Mail, PolicyMic, Observer, Le Point, Roll Call

Vicemo

Visit the site

Made with
Mike Lacher

A somewhat real time feed of people paying for sex, drugs, and booze on Venmo. Surreptitiously sourced from their website.

NY Mag, Slate, DailyDot, Boston Globe, Business Insider, On the Media, Motley Fool, Daily Mail, Gawker, Marketplace, Cosmopolitan, Quartz, Washington Post, and more

The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn’t Know You Entered

Made with Jesse Snyder and BBDO

We searched YouTube for every instance of fans using blink-182 songs in videos without permission. But instead of removing the content for breaching copyright, we rewarded them by using the footage in blink’s latest music video—all without telling them first.

Likecreeper

Created with Mike Lacher, Brian Moore and Tiger Wang

Freak your friends out by having this site randomly hit like on one of their horrifyingly old Instagram pictures. The project was taken offline after the latest Instagram API change.

Buzzfeed, Fox Philly, Fast Co., Death & Taxes, DailyDot, Mirror, Seventeen

When Did You Choose to be Straight?

Made with Travis Nuckolls

To move the needle on gay rights in a conservative town, we interviewed people about whether they thought gay people were born gay or if they chose to be gay. People who said they chose to be that way were hit with a second question: when did you choose to be straight? Almost five million people have watched us prove that the right question is more powerful than anything you you can tell someone.