The Hunger Games, the hotly anticipated movie based off the best-selling book trilogy, is upon us.
And so are the Hunger Games viral videos made by adoring fans.
Here are some of the Daily Dot’s favorites. Our list include raps, spoofs, and parodies; heartfelt tributes and songs; and satirical skits. (Spoilers abound, so don’t watch these if you have yet to see the movie or read the books.)
Done to the tune of Britney Spears’s “I Wanna Go,” this version from June 2011 closes with a love-triangle compromise many a deviant Hunger Games fan has yearned for. (Yes, it went there.)
This satirical spoof—a lean one minute, 25 seconds—is severely underappreciated at less than 70,000 views as of Friday afternoon. Gale confusing the Reaping Day gathering for “a B96 jingle-bash or something,” among other scenes, had us in stitches.
If Lana Del Rey sang about the Hunger Games, it’d probably sound like Holly Laurent’s version:
The Hunger Games trilogy has spawned an avid fan-fiction community, with many fictional attempts at filling the sexual void in the young-adult series. YouTuber TimWillDestroyYou reenacts the infamous cave scene from the first book with popsicle sticks. “Would a straight man be able to decorate cakes so well?” TimWillDestroyYou doesn’t think so.
Katniss Everdeen will “put an arrow through your throat” and slay you with her rhymes, because she’s lyrically gifted, in this Hunger Games rap song uploaded Friday.
The Hunger Games trilogy, dark and violent, is made all cute and cuddly in this 11-minute retelling with Beanie Babies.
