WTF Youtube?

I will never understand youtube. Just the other day, I watched both Charlie's Angels movies using youtube. Today I go online and can't find either Charlie's Angels movie anymore. I mean, we're litterally talking about a timespan of two days; the video itself had been up for two years. Did youtube honestly miss both movies for two years, just now find them, and decide to take them down? Or were the videos just too awsome, and youtube is full of douche bags who like to take down popular videos?

Then just this morning, I went on, and it said I had one new comment. I clicked there, read the comment, then went back to the home page (I'm a packrat and keep everything, even useless youtube comments). The youtube homepage said I still had a comment! I went back, opened and closed the comment again, and went back to the home page again. This time it was gone. But that's not the point. The point is that I shouldn't have to go to my comments page twice to get rid of one useless comment saying something about how this guy agrees with me that some minigame on Mario Party 8 is based on luck, but luck is sometimes all you need or some crap like that. I suppose it's my own fault, really. I should just delete those useless comments....

Then there's the "recommended for you" section. What that does is search the database for videos I've watched before and finds videos related to them. It then recommends those videos to me. Usually I don't mind this (I found both StormDainProductions and sXePhil in this section, and I LOVE those guys!), but lately it's been giving me things that are not related to my interests AT ALL. For example, I have never once, in my entire time on youtube, looked up and watched a Micheal Jackson video (and now come the comments of hatred, but really, I like the songs I just don't watch the videos). Suddenly three out of the six recommended videos have Micheal Jackson's face on them. Tribute to MJ, Best MJ song....that kind of thing. Um, what? Not ONCE, people!

So I guess that brings me to the point of this blog post: WTF is youtube doing? They make no actual sense to any of us, as far as I know. And I guess I have a second question for this blog post: Why do we use youtube if we hate it so much? I guess the world will never know....

Youtube Maitenance

OK, so for the last couple of months, there have been some complaints against youtube, and for good reason. Since the site has been bought by google, it's gone WAY overboard with things like censorship, copyright "laws", and many other things. A girl who I am good friends with online had made several AMV's using clips from the movie 9. Now, according to youtube, all you have to do to post copyrighted material is say that none of it belongs to you, that you're giving credit to the owners of the material, that the video is fanmade, and that it will be taken down upon request. This girl just started her 7th youtube account because they, without any kind or warning or supposed "requests to remove the videos," closed her first six accounts because she violated the youtube rules. Even though she FOLLOWED all of the rules given her, and made sure that anyone involved in the making of her videos did as well.

They repeatedly keep taking down videos I make because of copyright problems with my videos. No "requests," no "warnings."

And yet, people can post entire movies online with no problem whatsoever.

On top of all that, most websites post something on their main homepage when they're down for maitenence. Not youtube. Oh, no, their front page is perfectly up and running, but if you try to watch any videos, you get a bar on the top saying they are "down for maitenence." Along with that, it takes for-fricken-ever to even get to that page telling you that the site is down. Just under three minutes for me. Which, of course, causes me to get mad at my computer and throw a little hissy fit that involves cussing out everyone and everything in sight.

Youtube, you need to get your shit together, and run the site how it used to be run. Your "changes" are crap. Thank you, and have a nice day!