Thursday, February 3, 2011
YouTube or TheirTube?
Before I start on the response to the YouTube article I would just like to point out that Trolls have replaced the term Haters. I realize that this article was written 4 years ago and that the author isn’t at fault, but I couldn’t help but cringe when I read Haters. To me it is a term that my mother would use when talking about YouTube or the Internet. On that note let me dive into this article and share my opinion with the Internet community. When I started to read this article and learned about all the restrictions that YouTube has I thought a more appropriate term for the site would be TheirTube. Now I am not sure if this an original term coined by me but for the sake of this response I will assume that it is. With all the restrictions that YouTube puts on its videos it’s hard to imagine how people even put up with it. I used to post my own videos up until they were taken off for copyright infringements. My account was never shutdown, which is a good thing because I would have lost other information I had posted. This issue is also discussed in the article and shows how YouTube controls everything you put up, even original works. The other major topic is that of the Haters or Trolls, these people make it their mission to discourage people from posting on YouTube. They do this by postings comments such as “you’re a faggot” or “get some exercise you fat fuck.” Both of these comments I have personally seen on various videos in the response section. The Haters of YouTube go on to reinforce the term TheirTube because these anonymous posters are making it about them not you. Lucky there are ways to fight this group and as said in the article just ignore them or dislike their posts. Eventually they will stop because Haters thrive on reactions, so if you don’t react they move on.
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