The Real #1
This is a historic moment in internet video history. Today the DONOTASYOUDO army completed their journey to the top of the YouTube pile. Mission Accomplished. If you look at the top 100 most viewed videos on YouTube you will see that the race for #1 video seems to be between Evolution of Dance and Avril Lavigne Girlfriend. That's the way it seems but that simply isn't the uncensored reality. The clear #1 video is ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment:
This is a well calculated anti-video meant as a critique of YouTube content. By watching the video, commenting on it, and rating it 1 star, a viewer can essentially contribute to a petition that exists within the medium it is protesting. Brilliant.
The most disturbing thing is that YouTube removed ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment from it's most viewed page. Youtube is becoming Themtube. What I don't understand about this is why they would sort of half censor the video. Why not just remove it entirely? When a totalitarian government discovers an enemy in their ranks they don't just stop them from getting state-controlled-media attention, they eliminate them entirely. The neutrality of YouTube moderators is essential to maintaining a free environment on the site. When they begin censoring videos that are critical of their site then things start to slip down the slope of controlled content.
I believe we are starting to see the decline of YouTube. It began as a medium capable of catapulting an unknown in their bedroom from anonymity to meme status but is becoming a dumping ground for major label music videos and soft core pornography. 13 of the top 20 most viewed videos are music promos. 63 of the top 100 are music vids or music related (high school musical) vids. 8 of the top 100 have images of sex or strip tease, or have the word sex or xxx in the title. YouTube is becoming little more than Skinemax meets MTV. Sad. Whatever happened to all the cute but ridiculous videos of teens lip-syncing to their favorite songs. Oh right, copyright infringement. The compromise that YT has made to major label record companies has made it nearly impossible to find interesting videos in the top 100 most-viewed. The only videos holding strong are Evolution of Dance, laughing baby, Potter Puppet Pals, guitar, Charlie bit my finger, and Battle at Kruger. Yes, I just wrote that a video of a baby laughing is interesting. It's all relative. Oh, and I really like Charlie the Unicorn, Chocolate Rain, and Daft Hands. I'd watch something homemade over a big budget music video any day.
Anyway, this brings me back to the point of this post. We should all be celebrating the rise of ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment to #1 because it stands as a reminder to the powers that be at YouTube that the viewers want better.
This is a well calculated anti-video meant as a critique of YouTube content. By watching the video, commenting on it, and rating it 1 star, a viewer can essentially contribute to a petition that exists within the medium it is protesting. Brilliant.
The most disturbing thing is that YouTube removed ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment from it's most viewed page. Youtube is becoming Themtube. What I don't understand about this is why they would sort of half censor the video. Why not just remove it entirely? When a totalitarian government discovers an enemy in their ranks they don't just stop them from getting state-controlled-media attention, they eliminate them entirely. The neutrality of YouTube moderators is essential to maintaining a free environment on the site. When they begin censoring videos that are critical of their site then things start to slip down the slope of controlled content.
I believe we are starting to see the decline of YouTube. It began as a medium capable of catapulting an unknown in their bedroom from anonymity to meme status but is becoming a dumping ground for major label music videos and soft core pornography. 13 of the top 20 most viewed videos are music promos. 63 of the top 100 are music vids or music related (high school musical) vids. 8 of the top 100 have images of sex or strip tease, or have the word sex or xxx in the title. YouTube is becoming little more than Skinemax meets MTV. Sad. Whatever happened to all the cute but ridiculous videos of teens lip-syncing to their favorite songs. Oh right, copyright infringement. The compromise that YT has made to major label record companies has made it nearly impossible to find interesting videos in the top 100 most-viewed. The only videos holding strong are Evolution of Dance, laughing baby, Potter Puppet Pals, guitar, Charlie bit my finger, and Battle at Kruger. Yes, I just wrote that a video of a baby laughing is interesting. It's all relative. Oh, and I really like Charlie the Unicorn, Chocolate Rain, and Daft Hands. I'd watch something homemade over a big budget music video any day.
Anyway, this brings me back to the point of this post. We should all be celebrating the rise of ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment to #1 because it stands as a reminder to the powers that be at YouTube that the viewers want better.
Labels: Battle at Kruger, Charlie bit my finger, Charlie the Unicorn, Chocolate Rain, Daft Hands, Evolution of Dance, guitar, laughing baby, Potter Puppet Pals, YouTube Worst Video of All Time
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