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You may have already seen this, as it’s been making the rounds the last week, but the video for Weezer’s new song Pork and Beans is utterly brilliant. Watch it first. More comments below.

At first, it seems they’re just referring to and riffing off the phenomenon, with themselves as characters and occasional snippets from popular viral YouTube videos, which is clever enough. But then these internet phenoms begin lip-syncing to Weezer’s song, and we’ve entered another world. By vid’s end, they’re all together virtually in one big room spazzing out in all their self-referential-Andy-Warhol-fifteen-minute glory, extending their alloted time…if just for a bit.

It’s fun while watching to try and catch all the Internet Stars, some of which were, to me, only vaguely familiar. My daughters squealed when they spotted Charlie the Unicorn prancing around in the background. Me, I’m just glad someone gave Chris Crocker a hug. Looks like he needed one.