I’m definitely behind on my starting of this blog, but I have good reasonings, so bear with. I have something else in the works, so we’ll see where this goes. But for right now, this topic’s been heavy on my mind as of recent.
I’m sure everyone’s aware of the fact that Viacom has put in a juncture that they get access to YouTube accounts, including what they watched when they watched it, along with age, so on and so forth. Apparently it’s all because of the fact that people are watching shows on the ‘Tube versus watching them on TV, and Viacom wants to see just how much they’re losing to the internet. They just want a better idea as to the variety of people that watch content coming from Viacom, right?
Wrong.
How would you feel if you got on the internet one day, and all of a sudden, every thing that you thought was once private is now out in the open for someone to see? Will they let YouTube anonymize the information? I haven’t heard anything about that yet, but I’ll be sure to add it if I do. Frankly, I think it’s a load of crap, to be honest. I’m all for figuring out which demographic you appeal to most, but seeking ALL the information of people watching your videos? Going after it all? Do you think that’s really necessary, because I sure as hell don’t.
When I joined YouTube over 2 years ago, I did it because I began watching a lot of videos over a variety of subjects. And in that timeframe, I’ve amassed a great number of videos that I’ve watched (totally over 3,000 probably) and it’ll still grow as long as people make content on there that I find to be interesting to me. And unless my 21 subscriptions suddenly pull their channels, I don’t find that likely to happen soon. Even I have started uploading some videos that I’ve made, just to see if they will generate anything. I’m not really looking to find anything from it, at least not now. It’s just for fun for me. But I go there, primarily, because I don’t have to worry about all my actions being watched, or having Big Brother staring me down time and time again. I don’t have to worry about all the videos I’ve watched becoming open to some Big Company who just wants to play bully. The mere fact that someone can come along and do that makes me so mad it’s not even funny. I’m sure I’ve watched Viacom-owned content on YouTube in the two years I’ve been on here. But I’ve also watched the funny videos from the What the Buck Show and great collab videos all across the board, among others.
It just doesn’t make sense to me.
Another thing.
Hate on YouTube.
What’s up with that?
Remember those 3000+ videos I’ve watched? 99 percent of them were videos that I were actually interested in, videos that grabbed my attention in the first 5-10 seconds and kept it for the remainder of the video. I may not have left comments (I’m getting better at that) but I truly enjoyed them. But not once did I continue to watch a video that I know, within that first 5-10 second bracket, I would not like. OK, there were a couple of occasions where my opinion changed mid-video, but then I would stop watching and keep on moving. I wouldn’t keep watching a video I wouldn’t like.
If you watch a video that you don’t like, involving content you don’t like or don’t want to look at, you can’t blame that on the creator of the video. They’re being themselves (or acting out things that interest them) and, therefore, are portraying themselves wholeheartedly. And even those that are posted as clips from something else are of videos that interest them, and can be labeled as such.
So WHY do you feel it necessary to leave hate comments?
Why do you feel it necessary to leave comments riddled with “You’re gay” or “go f*** yourself” or stuff like that?
It just does not make sense to me. AT ALL.
Now, I’m not saying that hate doesn’t exist, so don’t pull that from this. I receive some form of hate constantly. Not on a daily basis, but enough to where it’s just a stop sign on the road: I stop and then proceed onward. Not to the extent of the abovementioned, but I think you saw my metaphor. If not, email me and I will send it to you.
I cruise around the ‘Tube from time to time, checking out all sorts of videos. Sometimes I don’t even watch the videos…. I’ll go straight to the comments. And almost every time, I’ll find one video where multiple people will leave a comment nowhere related to the video, but trying to take a stab at the person who made the video. Sometimes it’s accompanied by agreeing comments, but there are people who will defend the maker of the video, or bring up the same fact that I’m bring up now. And I agree. It makes no sense to be putting someone down for a video they made when you obviously clicked on the video, and you obviously took the time to watch it. And if you didn’t watch it and just left the comment, then you’re just a retard in need of some serious psychiatric evaluations.
All I’m saying is to just remember that you have the option to watch whatever video that pleases you. And you also have the option to not watch any video you don’t think would strike your interest. Obviously there’s a reason you watched a particular video, or else you wouldn’t have clicked on it. If it came up in a search, the video title, a still image, and part of the video description are available to you at a click. You don’t have to open the link, and you don’t have to watch the video. Options remain to you to keep on moving.
But you insist on clicking it, and comments insue.
You think it’s funny? Watch…. someone’s gonna get mad once, and it’s gonna be all over. It’ll send that one person over the edge and then it won’t be so funny anymore.
Maybe then it’ll make more sense.
In the meantime, I’ll stick to my roots on YouTube. Leaving comments on videos I like, messaging my favorite people and saying thanks for making great videos, and just keep on moving. It’s all I can do. I’m one in a billion, and I can speak for myself.
Not everyone else.
Until Next Time,
[Lanier3000]
