I’m not sure, but I think the average YouTuber might be borderline retarded. Personally, I try and avoid the comments section on videos, because every time I indulge in reading them I feel dumber for having done so.
It’d be nice if there was a way of filtering slideshows out the way Flickr lets you tag screenshots so they can be excluded. Hey dumbasses: this is a video, this is fucking not. In fact, dear reader, if you want an exercise in anger management… try to find an actual video clip of the famous Simpsons song “See My Vest” that isn’t some dumbass slideshow.
Which brings me to my next rant – the re-posts. It’s not enough that one douchebag puts exactly 11 images to 60 seconds of audio and calls it a “video”, it’s that two hundred and fifty other dumbasses will come along and think they can do the same thing better, assuming they don’t just out and out steal it and re-post it verbatim.
I guess that’s my major gripe about YouTube, is that people think they’re contributing stuff when they’re really not. Now I’m not perfect, most of my contributions are formulaic gaming music videos which are now missing the audio. Exactly one of them is informational, and another video I uploaded is black and white footage of my dog. I’m not exactly an internet superstar, and I don’t pretend to be.
But people who re-post shit like a certain auto-tuned “song” so they can get views to their channel instead of the person who should be rightfully collecting them; to the 13 year old who thinks they’re going to be famous for doing nothing but cursing on camera, and to their parents who think it’s okay and/or that anyone other than internet pedophiles are interested in what your kid has to say; and of course to the people who post slideshows in the guise of video…
… go die in a fire. 