Open Letter to Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)”
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Dear Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)”,
You are my last resort when I find myself in the depths of boredom and you so often not only disappoint, but depress. How is it that a Family Guy clip from ten motherfucking years ago can still garner enough views to put it on top? Surely everyone who was susceptible to the late 90’s Family Guy-mania has either grown out of it’s writing’s ultra predictable marginally shocking one-two ‘random’ formulaic punch or at least seen every possible clip ad nauseum via any friend of the last half-decade’s DVD player. But no. Stewie’s British accent is still hilarious apparently regardless of what tired or ridiculously idiosyncratic thing it’s saying .
But I can’t blame that on you Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)”. People who just figured out how to rip a video from a DVD are obviously going to grab whatever’s handy to try it out, and seasons of Family Guy have been flying off the dumb shelves to dumb people for years.
Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)” you so accurately provide a snapshot of what concerns and is of interest to the majority of the world or at least it’s internet users (which is basically everyone). With a whole wide internet of countless FREE porn sites why is it that a twelve second clip of a Japanese girl bending over can still get over 60,000 views in less than 48 hours? The technique of splicing some racy image directly into the middle of a video in order to make it it’s thumbnail has become common and usually is used to sneak something incredibly lame onto the screens of not only perverts but lazy perverts. That’s who you want watching your amateur sketches or webcam rants.
But the biggest crime of all Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)” has to be your ability to make yourself a companion to the never ending celeb. gossip bullshit jetstream. I don’t give a shit what Miley Cyrus does. The internet is supposed to be a means to get marginally more ‘interactive’ than the media isn’t it? Not just a means to dig deeper and more pointlessly into it.
However, I can’t stay mad at you Youtube’s “Most Viewed Videos (Today)” because you have brought me countless laughs by introducing me to Daxflame and now redeemed yourself once again by showing me this:
Sincerely,
Bakedziti
