Sunday, January 31, 2010

Internet is pissing me off, rant #2 - Youtube

Youtube. Fuckin' youtube.

I used to like youtube. It was a great repository for creative content, music videos, shows I missed, and especially young women who were all to willing to exploit themselves. While all this is still there, a lot has changed about it.

Lets start with the creative content. Seems like every nitwit with a video camera is trying to be the next video blogging or viral video super star. Stop kidding yourselves. Leave this sort of thing to people who have real talent and creativity. Just because someone got famous for a week making a total fool of them self in front of a camera, it does not mean you will. Stop it, right fucking now, put the camera down. I'm so sick of watching something good then going to a related video that is total crap.

Music videos. True story, I grew up with out MTV. My dad refused to have cable in his house because he thought it was a rip-off. So I do rather enjoy watching music videos whenever I get a chance. Due to copyright issues, I do understand that they have become more scarce. I'm OK with this, but what really annoys me is that there are a lot of videos that now have commercials attached to them. If I want to watch a commercial on youtube, there's plenty of those, I asked for a video, not a commercial. And what the fuck is this VEVO shit? The few mainstream bands I happen to like all have these fucking VEVO channels. The videos load and play horridly slow and have commercials attached to them. And VEVO seems to not like constructive criticism. Luckily, most of what I like is non-mainstream.

And that's another thing. Ads and commercials. Seems like they are everywhere. The ones that pop up at the bottom of the video are the most annoying. I don't fucking want to see them. Sometimes they cover up something I want to see. It's fucking annoying. Stop it.

Most of the TV shows that people uploaded to youtube in 10 minute cuts are gone, also because of copyright. At least there's still torrents. What is still there is like the music videos, slow loading and loaded with advertising.

At least there's still the almost porn, nearly stripping, and butt shaking vids. More than ever it seems. Music just keeps getting worse. And some are just not that great. Well most it seems now. And the girls keep getting younger. Or at least looking younger. I don't even bother looking anymore.

Youtube just sucks now. Seems like I get pissed off every time I use it, but there are some channels I really like on it.

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