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YouTube Ancient
Vevo
YouTube introduced a YouTube playlist feature in January 2008. It is available to all registered YouTube users. With it, they can create their own playlists. The playlists can consist of any video on the whole site. Videos can be watched in a row within a playlist and playlists can also be shared publicly. This means playlists can be displayed on YouTube channels and within YouTube searches. It soon became popular to start YouTube playlists consisting of music. The music industry reported a lot of the music playlists. YouTube staff started to remove all copyright infringing videos, which merely consisted of music. However, YouTubers retaliated by re uploading their removed videos. This game of cat and mouse continues until this day, However, it diminished when Vevo was founded in December 2009. It is a music video streaming consortium consisting of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Emi Records. Vevo started its own channel and is in liason with YouTube. All Vevo's videos, from the 80s and forward, are embedded in special advertisements for new pop songs, which are published by Vevo. Also, you can't playlist Vevo videos.
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Audio Preview
Sometime in November 2008 YouTube ripped off an issue of xkcd by installing an "Audio Feedback" system that allows you to hear your comments read back to you before you post them. Naturally, this idea should have stayed in the realm of "Haha, what if?" because it's completely fucking useless in practice. The only real use for the device is to amuse one's self by typing ridiculous bullshit into the comment field to hear it read back to you by a robot with a speech impediment. This shit has never worked in the first place.
Linked with Google+
After several changes to the channel and video pages, on the 6th November 2013 Google thought that it was a good time to troll the YouTube community again. This time however not by changing the channel layout for the twentieth freaking time but the comment section, the holy grail of the community. The system was made to "clean up" the comments so that all the sissies browsing YouTube don't get offended anymore by random people on the internets. On that day every YouTube user was forced to make an account on Google+ or otherwise they weren't allowed to post, rate and reply to comments. The new system however backfired and trolls will have a much easier time trolling as the new system also added features such as:
- No character limit so you can post your favorite My Little Pony porn story in just one comment.
- The ability to disable replies to your comment.
- Edit your comment after you've posted it for extra lulz.
- Posting entire links to your favorite goatse images without the need to split it.
It is also possible to post entire ASCII images in the comments now so go out there and do it.
Most YouTube users do not seem to accept the Google Plus integrated update. Those who don't upload videos and only posts comments protest because they can no longer have their credit card number as their user name. YouTube uploaders complain about how they now feel because of changes in the comment system. After the update the prioritized comments are those which are the most discussed (aside from the most liked comments). Each time someone posts a reply its original post gets to the top. Critical comments are bound to harness the most discussion, so therefore it appears as if the discontentment with an uploader is greater than what it really is. Update: They have now imposed a character limit, disabled links and disprioritized hateful comments. People with many followers on Google Plus are higher up in the comments section. Conversely, people posting shit even by YouTube-standard are pushed back. In other words, the comments now are pseudo chronological.
Google Plus can also ghost ban comments if it thinks it is spam or a negative comment, even if it is not, due to the shitty filtering system. Comments are often marked as spam if a link (even a Youtube link) is posted or a user shitposts too many comments in a short period. This means that no one else can see the comment except the OP, who will not realize this, until they log out or use another account, and soon rages when they figure out that their comments are invisible.
RickRoll
On April Fools Day, 2008, the fags at JewTube redirected all featured video links to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, hoping users would applaud JewTube for its originality and suck its e-penis. This pathetic attempt at an April Fools joke "fooled" nearly one hundred thousand newfags, attempting to milk an already dead meme for everything it's worth. Not since Carson Daily Rickrolled his own audience on national television or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has there been such blatant faggotry. Update: Nancy Pelosi actually managed to top it.
According to Sen. Ted Stevens
YouTube is a very great tube, on it you can see people who have made moving pictures, and put their moving picture through a bunch of gigawatts, and gilgabites, until it is on YouTube's tubes. These tubes can be viewed by other chaps and can be put on other tubes, so whether you're watching a moving picture about flying machines or the new telegraph, you can always receive jollys at YouTube, and have a gay ol' time.
Updated Channel Designs
In 2009, YouTube started changing everyone's channels and renamed them GooTube beta. In July, they made it fully mandatory.
Features of the new design:
- 90% of the links and buttons on your channel page are JavaScript. None of them work except in IE 4.0 with security features completely off and only version 4.0.
- No one can view your videos, your favorites, etc.
- Channel comments links. For instance if your YouTube username is http://www.youtube.com/user/ScarletSanctum , your link to view the next series of comments is the broken link http://www.youtube.com/user/&start=10 . You have to correct YouTube's own faulty HTML by editing their link and making it http://www.youtube.com/user/ScarletSanctum&start=10 .
YouTube's initial blog about the changes has received nothing but complaints from the "YouTube Community" and their "help" forums have had the same reaction to the faulty beta design since early Spring. YouTube never fixed any of the problems with their shitty design and has now decided to make the new channel design mandatory and only old accounts from before the changeover are allowed to retain their original look. This is YouTube's way of proving that none of their employees have ever visited their own website.
Your Dox
So some of you might have thought that in 5 years of YouTube's clueless administration they couldn't possibly make worse decisions than they already have; well it turns out you were very fucking wrong. YouTube has now made new changes that have nerds raging again:
- They implemented an "account verification" system, demanding you give them a fucking cell phone number just to open an account. This is by far the queerest change they've made in years. The days of being able to set up socks at lightning speed are over and it means they're fewer and harder to come by. So enjoy your fucking txt spam and "This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is expiring" if you sign up for a new one. Sidenote: There have actually been reports that YouTube doesn't always seem to ask for this during sign-up, but this is a myth at this point.
- They changed the video page layout towards a crack-baby interface, moving shit around and implementing like/dislike ratings rather than the old star system, they also added some a faggy 'autoplay' list of assumingly related shit to the right that nobody can figure out.
- Fucked up the comment system, again.
- They have now implemented subscription limits. The number of subscriptions you can have is somehow derived from the number of subscribers you have.
The thing is, now older YouTube accounts (ones from the first half of 2007 or earlier) are at a premium because these accounts are unique in that:
They do not require the new layout and are thusly much less faggy.– they've now been assimilated too.- They are able to upload tl;dw over 10 minutes. UPDATE: When this is written, December 2013, Wikipedia says: All YouTube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone.
- They have less ass in general.
Rest assure these are just a taste of the shittyness YouTube has in store for us this year.
Bypassing The Mobile Verification Shit
- Register an account at Google AdWords. (Put in fake info, Google won't know shit)
- Create a YouTube account using the exact same e-mail you used on the AdWords account.
- Link your newly created YouTube account with the e-mail.
- ????
- PROFIT!
It is possible that Google locks your account for "unusual activity" (a.k.a. being you surfing on YouTube) just a few hours after you've opened your new account and is then forcing you to give them your mobile number. If you still want to spam on YouTube videos then fuck this shit and open another account on AdWords by using a 10 Minute Mail. Do this everytime Google locks up your last opened account.
If, for whatever reason, you want to keep your spam account, do the steps described in the video below to verify your account without giving away your phone number (if you can understand that indian nigger).
TL;DW version:
- Make an account on K7.net
- Make sure to pick "Send my messages to my email..." in the K7 options
- Use your new K7 phone number and let Google send a voice verification code
- Open the K7 email you received and hear the attached voice verification code
- ????
- PROFIT!
Cloning
A person who makes a YouTube account exactly the same but they replace the l with I or replace the I with l. If the YouTube account doesn't contain those letters than the person cannot be cloned. Clones also must clone the listed friends and make a copy of the person's YouTube videos. Another popular method is copy and pasting the original person's profile. Clones work when the person closes the account as well because then if you close the clone account and spam someone they will think it's the person you're cloning that did the spamming. You can also use clone to disguise as someone to become an admin of a stream. Then you can ban every moderator in the stream when nobody is in there. As you can tell this can cause mass confusion.
Example:
Here's an 
original channel and here's its clone.
Here is another original channel and here is the clone.
There is currently a Clone Wars raging amongst a faction of dedicated trolls and YouTube user Beamshipcaptain. The original declaration of war was made in October 2009 by now banned clone leader "TheBeamshipCaptain".
Several other trolls have now taken arms and created clone accounts. There are currently at least 10 clone accounts, ranging from BeamshipsRevenge to MorganshipCaptain, and randombeamshipman (who is a hybrid of randomlaughingman and beamshipcaptain).
The clone armies will not rest untill the internets have been purged of these idiots.
Copyright Bullshit
100 years ago, YouTube was a haven for pirates, who made it totally awesome for us by outweighing the camwhore shit with almost every anime, TV show and porno movie you could think of. But then, one day, some Jews from Viacom whined about everyone spreading a clip of The Daily Show all over the internets and the shitstorm began.
As a result, YouTube became Nazis and decided to wipe off every piece of copyrighted material they could find, including those taken with a shitty webcam. Although few of these remain, millions of AMVs remained untouched. YouTube also loves to pwn any account that has hosted these video clips, just for the lulz, but the so-called "offenders" would come back anyway and post their shit again.
Update
YouTube has now implemented an automatic pwning device to take out copyright material. The system functions by identifying code in your uploads. For example if you were to download some other useless video off of YouTube then upload it directly YouTube would reject it automatically. It can also detect other profanities such as severe violence, gore, nudity, and Trevor Rieger.
Another Update
YouTube has implemented a system where, in certain countries, you may or may not be able to view certain videos based on arbitrary legal restrictions. Oh noes, British users can no longer watch music videos, which is total bullshit!!!!!!!!
But then, how?
- Get the whole address of the video (like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU)
- Go to here
- Paste the address to the textbox
- press OK, then select a link to download, and download the video like a pirate
- watch it, and laugh at the copyrightfags
- ????
- PROFIT!
If you have Firefox or Chrome, you can use Proxies such as ProxTube.com
View Fraud
YouTube has had, and will continue to have, a long history of users gaming the system: scammers, frauds, and desperate attention whores all competing for attention of the average moron to give them a solitary click on their video. Some do a little more than this though, and take extreme measures to abuse the system and garner views.
For moar info see the article on YouTube View Fraud
The Subscriber Security Hole
Some time ago Anonymous discovered whoever coded YouTube sucks and left a security hole on their website for people to exploit. It involves a YouTube user's subscribers count on their profile page and how it can be exploited.
Here's how it works:
The first time a user subscribes, the subscribers count increments by 1, but does NOT increment any time you do it again. However, unsubscribing will decrement their count by 1. eBaum's World eventually found note of this and decided to attack Lonelygirl15's page and bring the count from tens of thousands of subscribers down to 0. It has also been done to her longface, Jew-nosed widow Danielbeast and other various YouTubers like Daxflame and VenomFangX. A script has also been developed to exploit this hole with about as much manpower as an Indian call center...but nobody can seem to locate it. The glitch was short lived before YouTube employees got off their asses and did something about it, but the BAWWWW from vloggers across the site was incessant and pointed for this short period as many users were upset about losing their honorz.
Update
The YouTube staff finally got this shit fixed. Hallefuckingjulah, it only took them a year and a half.
Update
There's was recently another gaping security hole based on the same principle. HURR DURR YEAH BOSS WE TOTALLY FIXED THAT SUBSCRIBER BUG.
Video Security Hole
Moar info: YouTube Independence Day.
July 4th, 2010, at 6:17 AM Eastern Time, the very first thread went up on Ebaumsworld' forums. Detailing a script that you could plug in to make your text red and scroll across the page. Soon, it was discovered that not only did this delete/hide all other comments besides yours, but that it rendered every button except the ones on the video itself as useless as a Brit's dick. Cries to infect the pages of Justin Biebe, Fred, and G4 were made. It was lulzy, all was well.
Then someone posted a thread on /b/.
Within the hour, a few new scripts had appeared, one would render the entire background black. Nothing except the video playing. Another would allow you to make fake message boxes when the page opened. But the third is where things get out of hand. The final one allowed you to redirect videos to anywhere on the internet. Combined with the now unflaggable videos, cp, gore, and porn in general began to popup disguised as "Justin Bieber - Baby," or "Lady Gaga - Poker Face."
Meanwhile, Ebaums was in its usual disorganized chaos. /v/ had started it all with a code obtained from /g/, then /b/ entered the picture due to /v/ and shit hit the fan. Moralfags came out in droves, /b/ was flooded with Jewtube Assault images. Everyone believed that the final battle between 4chan and YouTube was about to ensue. A new Ragnarok of the internet. Some said it was being taken to far, that innocent people would be v&. These people were, predictably, promptly ignored.
Obviously, YouTube kicked its shit into high gear. Three and a half hours in, "Safety Mode" was live. Opening the comments still activated the scripts as normal, but now they weren't automatic. The push was losing steam on 4chan, as more and more moralfags woke up and took time away from their mother]'s dried up teat to post their OUTRAGE. This bitch move thus draining morale on the shitposters even further.
In the aftermath, 4chan was blamed for the incident, as planned by the cock-lovers at EbaumsWorld. In reality, 4chan did not find the exploit.