A Look Back at VICE’s Most Influential Stories

The former bad boy of American journalism VICE is at death’s door. The latest round of layoffs after many rounds of layoffs included the announcement that the news website will stop producing original stories as it explores new directions. Let’s take a look back at the news publication that put the “hip” in “hipster douchebag.”

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We Listened to Every Dead Kennedys Record and Now We Understand the Middle East Conflict

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We Went to North Korea to Introduce The Country to Fritos

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We Started Using the Apple iPod Again to See If It’s More Effective at Ignoring Our Loved Ones

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We Snuck a Batarang Through Airport Security to Test the TSA’s Pop Culture Knowledge

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We Tested Recipes from The Anarchist’s Cookbook to See Which Ones Would Make the Best Facebook Cover

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We Ate a Whole Yard of Snickers Bars Like a Human Vacuum Cleaner

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We Went to the Gaza Strip to Put Truck Nutz on the Wailing Wall

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We Called Our Moms to Tell Them We’re Drug Dealers Right Before Going Home for Thanksgiving

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We Took Molly at the Zoo and Made Friends with a Panda

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We Flew to Bhutan for the Signing of the “Three Step Roadmap” After Getting on the Wrong Flight

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We Liked The Taliban on Facebook and They Won’t Stop Messaging Us

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We Tracked Down a Nigerian Prince Email Scam and Now We Own a Timeshare in Albany

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We Found the Real Life Walter White and Showed Him How to Double His Marketing Potential with SEO

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We Went to an Orgy and Yelled “Shark!”

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We Followed Imagine Dragons on Tour in Full Furry Cosplay and Can’t Stop Crying

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We Went to the First In-N-Out Burger and Put All the Soda Flavors in One Cup and Made Our Friend Drink It

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We Found Amelia Earhart’s Plane and We’re Not Telling You Where It Is

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We Worked an Entire Shift at Waffle House So We Could Steal All the Batter

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We Got Married in Vegas and Divorced the Next Day to See How Many Frequent Flyers Miles We Could Earn

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We Cloned Ourselves to Improve Our Degrees of Separation Away from Kevin Bacon

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We Tried to Make Blazing Saddles Again to Shut Up Your Uncle John

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We Went Into Space on a Commercial Flight to See If Getting Shot with a Shotgun Works the Same Way on Earth

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We Got Dental Work in Canada and Now We’re Citizens

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We Went to the Last Blockbuster Video and Started the Opioid Crisis

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We Watched an Entire Season of Jimmy Fallon and Now We’ve Taken Hostages

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We Bought All the Oil in Venezuela and Traded It for the World’s Rarest Beanie Baby

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We Investigated Jan. 6 Conspiracies and Uncovered a Bunch of OSHA Violations

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We Started a Magazine and Ran It Into the Ground to Prove the Fragility of America’s Media Diet