Us. (Photo: Girls Wikia)

If you’ve recently moved to New York City solely to live out your Girls-themed fantasies (hi!), your apartment hunt is now over. There's a distressing post on Craigslist looking for one lucky person to pay $1,500 a month for a room in Williamsburg. It already comes furnished with a Hannah (who probably becomes more aggravating as your lease progresses), and a gay roommate "with a penchant for backhanded compliments." Shut up.

The pair, who moved here two years ago to “follow our careers,” are promising a volatile and harrowing living experience that will slowly drain the life from you like water circling a rusty shower drain. The post explains that their ideal prospective roomie will fit into their obnoxiously quirky outlook, which apparently revolves around questions such as "Is it appropriate to sleep with [person X], and would you judge me if I did?" and "And how does one install a coat rack onto an electrical panel? (But really if you know the answer to that last one, please drop us a line.)"

It continues:

Do you watch Girls and think "they're living the life of my generation; I need to get back to the people and live more like them"? If yes, then you're probably in the right place. Basically we just want to keep living our lives and we need someone for that room, because we can't afford to keep the place otherwise and will be forced to move to Bushwick. Typologies of roommates we would accept include "Shoshanna"s or "Marnies." Bonus points if you're related to Brian Williams.

Nevermind, we're moving to Queens.

(Photo: Twitter/AbrahamJoseph)

It's been said that if Sex And The City were still on the air, Carrie would be dating a startup dude. (For related theories on how George Costanza would deal with Snapchat, please see @ModernSeinfeld.)

Lucky for Lena Dunham that her Brooklyn-based take on entitlement coincides with the rise of New York's nouveau tech riches. We already saw boho babe Jessa slum it with a square venture capitalist. (Factcheck on his "Steal My Sunshine" mash-up, though: In real life, VCs are much more partial to posting indie rock or dad rock on their Tumblr. And we're sorry to report you probably picked the same song of the year.)

But yesterday, the voice (of a certain hue) of her generation went ahead and did the damn thing. In a walk through Washington Square Park, Shoshana reveals that Marnie's ex-boyfriend Charlie built an app called Forbid.

"He sold it to, like, a very esteemed business tycoon for, like, a very large sum of money and now he has a corner office in said tycoon's building with, like, 11 employees," she says. "Charlie has a company?" Marnie whimpers, mentally filling her walk-in closet with plastic dresses.

"He's basically become a bougie nightmare," older-and-wiser Ray explains.

Knowing Ms. Dunham's penchant for borrowing from her actresses' real lives in a way that hits "a little close to home," it's hard not to see the parallel with the relationship between Allison Williams, who plays Marnie, and her boyfriend, CollegeHumor and Notional founder Ricky Van Veen. It may be a mystery to Gawker, but the two have been dating for awhile now. They were recently spotted on a double-date to the Grammy's with his pal John Mayer and American firework Katy Perry.

According to our logic, that makes IAC chairman Barry Diller the source material for "said business tycoon." Last May, we spotted Ms. Williams on the mogul's arm at a startup party in the lobby of IAC's Frank Gehry building. Both CollegeHumor and Notional are part of IAC's portfolio.

So what overheard Silicon Alley tidbits might Ms. Dunham have pilfered to incorporate into the episode?

Well, Forbid, which blocks users from making calls they know they shouldn't was apparently inspired by Charlie's breakup with Marnie. (The app version of *refresh refresh refresh*?) If users give in to drunken urges, customers have to pony up $10 to unblock the number. "People are really responding to software that protects them from themselves or other people," is Charlie's elevator pitch to Marns. "So the app is free, but breaking your word to yourself isn't." Monetizable behavior modification? Give this kid a $250k seed round!

The wood paneling in the fictional Chelsea lobby looked more Upper East Side salon to us, but upstairs it's all iMacs and Aeron chairs, as custom dictates.

Charlie's still trying to maintain his Bushwick roots. He brushes off an offer to hear the new Jack Johnson--good luck with that, buddy--and hasn't gone soft on the free candy perks just yet. He's also predictably vague about the size of his acquisition. "They paid me a shitload," he jokes before downgrading it to "not that much, but enough." Enough for an unlofted bed and a boatload of headbands, we premuse.

But what's that in the distance? The blare of an air horn as a coworking-space's-worth of 20-somethings dance their way through the open floor plan to the sounds of "Teach How to Dougie." Sorry, Marns. Charlie doesn't have time for your sadface because "the office next door doing a lip-dub thing for their YouTube channel." Although we appreciate the fameball-era callback, lipdubs are so 2009. Bonus points for predicting our long national Harlem Shake nightmare, though.

Later, slumped over in her "magician's assistant" outfit, Marnie has an epiphany. "You know who end up living their dreams are sad messes like Charlie?!" Uh-oh, sounds Lena Dunham just called ya'll not awesome.

XO, Nitasha, the richest Hindi you know

Whatta Marnie.

(screencap from What Should We Call Girls)

A couple weeks back, Betabeat noted that Cinemax had embarked on a GIF-happy marketing campaign for its new show, Banshee, which seemed like a heavy-handed marketing campaign for a heavy-handed show.

Well, if releasing the entire first episode in GIF format seemed a bit overwrought—"the GIF format has emerged as a popular visual language across the internet and provides a creative way into social conversations by leveraging existing online behaviors," a marketing exec at HBO (Cinemax's parent company) told us—at least the GIFs were cool.

If only we could say the same thing for What Should We Call Girls, the network's Tumblr for its hit show Girls, which was a perfectly reasonable idea executed with a preponderance of rules, including:

GIFs should feature images from the HBO series GIRLS only

GIFs should not combine GIRLS content with any other content or material

Any text in your GIF must be a direct quote from GIRLS

All GIRLS content in GIFs must be obtained from authorized sources of HBO programming

GIFs should be approximately 5 seconds long

We reserve the right to select the GIFs that will be posted on this site

All of which made inevitable masterpieces such as this one:

Does that mean HBO is the Adam Driver of networks? "You should never have to be anyone's fucking slave. Except mine.”

HBO Girls star Allison Williams, left, and CollegeHumor's Josh Ruben. (Photo: Timothy Reilly for CollegeHumor)

A surprisingly diverse crowd showed up at The Gramercy Theater last night for the annual CollegeHumor Offline show. The audience was almost half female and included numerous fans significantly older than the site's namesake demographic.

The content, however, was exactly what you’d expect if you’ve ever perused CollegeHumor for some sophomoric fun. The show featured a familiar crew—Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld of the site’s most popular series, Jake & Amir, Elaine Carroll of Very Mary-Kate—delivering familiar punch lines, most to the effect of, “I put my dick in your Sprite.” CollegeHumor’s editor in chief Streeter Seidell opened the show with a few jokes about peeing himself and disliking farmer’s markets before assuring the audience that there were a lot more “cumming jokes” to look forward to. In that respect, the performers did not disappoint.

The highlight of the show was HBO’s "Girls" star Allison Williams, who, in a floral cocktail dress and stilettos looked indistinguishable from Marni, her prim-and-proper character on the show. Ms. Williams, of course, has reportedly been dating CollegeHumor and Notional founder Ricky Van Veen for some time now. A CollegeHumor representative declined to comment. However, the two are often spotted together at parties and recently appeared hand-in-hand in a video shot at Jakob Lodwick's wedding.

“Tell me about your show because there’s a lot of sex and I don’t know if it’s simulated,” Gale Beggy, the CollegeHumor personality played by Josh Ruben in drag, asked.

“Gale, all of the sex is simulated,” Ms. Williams responded with good-natured exasperation. “It’s not a porn.”

Despite Ms. Williams’s background in improv (“All of my experience before Girls was live,” she told Betabeat after the show) the majority of her jokes fell painfully flat. When asked about her own beauty procedures, Ms. Williams first responded “This isn’t my face…I just got it,” before telling the audience that she uses “a lot of blood, a lot of cat urine,” and “your saliva, actually” to keep herself looking fresh.

Her exaggerated attempts at physical comedy—putting a hand on Mr. Ruben’s knee and constantly pushing up his stuffed chest—didn't do her many favors, although the audience didn’t seem to mind. As Ms. Williams exited the stage, a voice from the crowd shouted, “nice legs."

The show concluded with Jake & Amir, who gave the audience a list of ten first date ideas (three of which involved proposing marriage and one which involved a trip to Napa Valley) and ended with a freestyle rap about aardvark cum, featuring Hoodie Allen and a fully suited aardvark.

After the show, we spoke to Mr. Seidell, who, currently 29, has been married for almost a year. He laughed when we asked if he ever feels like he is outgrowing his audience. “It’s the Internet, so its hard to tell exactly how old they are, since everybody acts like they’re 13,” he said. “We always joke like, 'Oh, do you get fired when you’re 30?' And the first of us just turned 30, so we’ll find out I guess.”

When asked about the funniest thing he’s seen on the Internet lately, Mr. Seidell had to think. “I literally see thousands of funny things online each day,” he explained, adding, “I don’t want to give a bad answer.”

He proceeded to recount a video featuring an Olympic gymnast perfectly landing a vaulting pass where in the background you can see the judge’s jaw drop, before conceding, “That’s not really that funny, I guess. Honestly, the thing I probably laughed the hardest at was a gif of a cat falling off a counter, so that would be, sadly, what I think is the funniest.”

We turned the question around to Ms. Williams, who barely hesitated. “I like any video of a person who just had dental surgery,” she offered enthusiastically. “And I’ve watched a lot of them lately.”

It's not just the E-Trade baby who's mastered these apps (Photo: blogcdn.com)

Gather round kids, and set down your game of Tiny Wings for just a minute, because we have some mind-blowing news to tell you. A survey commissioned by Popcap Games and released today reveals that people are addicted to mobile gaming. Yes, that’s right, the Angry Birds Flu has officially infected a majority of the U.S. and U.K. populations.

The survey, conducted by Information Solutions Group, asked participants where and on what device they prefer to play mobile games. Nearly 70 percent of the 2,031 respondents chose to do so while sitting on the couch, and another 40 percent enjoy these complex, intellectually stimulating apps while watching television. Apparently, Mad Men isn’t really doing it for people anymore.

No, you can’t go back to your game yet, because it gets better. One out of every 10 respondents sneaks in a little Fruit Ninja while worshipping, driving a car or watching a movie. We’re not sure who should find this more concerning: God, Steven Spielberg or the person you just T-boned.

Even more worrisome is the fact that 10 percent of those surveyed have missed an appointment, class, ride or flight because they were caught up in a mobile game. Of course, according to the survey, many of these religiously apathetic, Spielberg-haters are young men with enough expendable cash to spend over $50 annually on mobile games. We're looking at you, Harry and Peter Brant.

Let's not fault the eight percent of people who need a little gaming break at school, or the nine percent who use Angry Birds to stay awake during their kid’s Little League game. But to those four percent playing games in the gym, don’t you think you should take a little break to work off those potato chips you consumed while watching Girls and playing Words With Friends?

Giordano Contestabile, the senior director of mobile product and business strategy at PopCap Games, told USA Today that he found these results surprising, likely because he still engages in such outdated activities as reading and face-to-face socializing.

But don’t worry. He will soon be sucked in, as will the rest of the planet.

“We believe mobile gaming is invading the last bastion of video game consoles and personal computers: the home,” said Dennis Ryan, the vice president of Wordwide Publishing at PopCap in a statement.

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg has some competition for world domination.