What sucks about YouTube

It's one thing to say that something sucks, but it's another thing to actually explain why. I will be focused on discussing what exactly is wrong with YouTube.

OK, the thumbs-up / thumbs-down / rating in a video which has anything to do with religion is misleading, as most people who register for YouTube and spend a lot of time looking at videos about religion are hardline naturalists and a lot are really closed-minded. Why naturalists? Usually they have nothing better to do.

(I prefer to use the term "naturalist", as "atheist" is a very direct term. Think of it this way: "You are very welcome to join the 'I Hate White People' group. We're a very peaceful group and we love one another." I use the term "naturalist" because it refers to people who believe that we came to be entirely due to "natural" causes.)

Now, there's a user named jezuzfreek777. Like him or not, he's a legitimate user. Now there's jezusfreek666x. This guy is almost a doppleganger.

How can I report him?

Well, I have two options.

1. I could flag his videos. But it's not specific enough. Fortunately, I can give "bullying" as a reason.
2. I could report image violations on his profile.

Oh that's just brilliant. I could almost shove this post on my earlier blog - y'know, the one with all the F-bombs and that. Yeah.

So, I've tried #1, and flagged the "Pornography is good" video as "bullying". Click the button, and... great! I...

In order to help us understand your bullying complaint better, we'll need additional details. Please refer to our Safety Center for more information and the form to submit.

Looking at that, there's no form. But there is one instance of "form" on its own (not included in the word "information"):

YouTube doesn't allow videos with nudity, graphic violence or hate. If you come across a video like this, click the link on the video to flag it as Inappropriate and submit the form on the next page to report it to YouTube.

But there's no next page. I look on the video and find no "next page", either. Perhaps clicking "close" would do something?

... not at all.

Does anyone remember ChristianU2uber? He was roughly 12 years old and made a video about how homosexuality is wrong. It doesn't matter how spoonfed or how wrong he is, YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. Yes, all-caps, bold, direct language.

One doppelganger would be worse than a single comment saying "HOMO"; nevertheless, both are wrong. He actually responded several times and got all fired up... there was a video where he yells "I AM NOT A HOMO", giving himself a red face in the process. But the number of doppelgangers? I'd estimate about 5. The number of comments saying "HOMO"? Far too many for me to count. Estimation? 10,000.

And that's not all; this bullying has been immortalised for all time* on Encyclopedia Dramatica, under the title... "Angry Homo Kid". I effectively used to say that Encyclopedia Dramatica is the cesspit of the internet. I stand by my position.

* Unless someone actually toughens up and shuts this website down. You who claim "freedom of speech" are only about defending your own freedom of speech and not the freedom of others'. There's a very good reason why God hates hypocrisy, and I hate it, too.

I'm not trying to portray all naturalists in a bad light here. A lot actually condemned their efforts (whilist in the meantime using their comment space as an excuse to shun God; after all, that's how naturalists seem to do it on the internet).

Now, you might be thinking that I just happen to have an issue with naturalists, and that all is fine and dandy elsewhere, but I happen to be at least slightly aware of "YouTube partners". I don't know all the details about it, but I do know that a lot of videos were pulled from YouTube because Viacom had a copyright claim on at least some part of the video.

Here's my advice. If you want a video pulled off YouTube, look for any copyright infringements. Because that's all they care about. Unless it's a tiny, tiny amount of copyrighted material, they'll do their best to shut it down.

(Although one of my videos has a "Download this song" advertisement as I used a track as background music... I guess that's nicer than "hURR not use copyrighted music delete now"... I might just delete it and replace the soundtrack with some stuff off Modarchive or some other demosceners' tracks and promote those artists, as I'm trying to stop consumerism - I have a .rar archive of about 50 tracks by dizzy, and about the same count for tracks by beek.)

The fact that YouTube appear to be more concerned about upholding copyright rather than upholding human rights is what bothers me. This, I believe, is what's fundamentally wrong with YouTube.

(Just one thing I'd like to add which sprung to mind last night. I've heard that, depending on where you look in your data, if you're looking for "ancestors" by the theory of evolution, we appear to either be closely related to the monkey, the pig, or the chicken. Each of these are used as derogatory terms. Which would you rather be: a monkey, a pig, or a chicken?)