Mister YouTube Must Die

Youtube just made the douchebaggiest move of its entire history.

After about 300 views, it PURPOSEFULLY freezes the view counter on videos, and cannot be unfrozen until you promote your video or get 300 UNIQUE IP VIEWS. And even then, you have to pay 1 buck per 100 views. To unfreeze a video you need to spend $3. For.Each.One.

Nobody's going to pay that, and this will assure nobody new or intelligent will come onto youtube, and we will have a continuous flow of fred, people talking about sex and god and SO MANY RETARDED-ASS BLOGGERS without competition.

Way to go, mister YouTube. Here, have a DIE.

 

Wait what? One of my video's has like 4000 views and I don't have to pay jackshit. Just wait a few hours, the counter takes awhile as your video gets a tad more popular.

 

if he dosent pay the its obviously not true

 

Too many stupid people are on youtube.

 

Wait... there were intelligent people on youtube?

 

No, It only applies to new ones uploaded in the past week and up. Supposedly Facebook has something to do with it too.

Yeah. Dad watches language and papier mache tutorials on it all the time.

Note that the limit only really hurts the little guys, because in order to get the view counter to unfreeze, you have to have 300 unique IP views, which means if you and a few of your friends watch it, it won't do jack shit untl you have at least 300 pals with differnt IPs watching each of your videos.

 

Where does it say this?

 

God knows, but it's been going around. I did say SUPPOSEDLY - It's the only part of this I can't confirm is true, though it may be.

 

I honestly don't think it's true, if it were you'd see the bigger youtubers complaining about it or still be at 300 views. See MysteryGuitarMan's Channel and sxephil, he should have a video later tonight or something.

Also a google search turns up nothing or a limit or pay option type thing.

 

Basically the only thing I can see this affecting is your ability to masturbate over your viewcount.

 

Who or where did you hear this? It sounds fake to me.

 

The Bigger YouTubers Have more than 300 unique IP views when they put something new up. Paying for promotion is the only other way to get unique views than having 300 seperate people to watch it, and not everyone has a lot of loyal subbers/friends. There have even been been videos on some channels that link to "frozen" videos so they can get their IP views up and unfreeze it.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=085169998178ca55&hl=en

Oh, it's real, and it's a bitch.

Now, youtube ITSELF didn't say you had to promote, but that is one of the only fixes right now (from unique views)

Try inability to even COMPETE with popular channels.

 

May just be a glitch or some new code they implemented recently.

 

Yeah it seems like a glitch, youtube has had many glitches before this could be one of them. They even updated their layout just recently too. Youtube has had a problem concerning view counts for the longest time (like more people rating the video than the number of views).

So basically, your first post is based on a wild and exaggerated speculation as of WHY it freezes at 300.

Hell, this even goes against the basic principles of Google, I doubt even Google can pull that off.

Honestly I don't understand a single thing you've said here. So the view limit would freeze at 300 views, but yet the popular channels are avoiding it because they get more than 300 views?

 

The limit freezes at 300 until you have at least 300 views from unique IPs (1 per different internet connection location); E.G. Me and my seven friends watch the video a few times over 2 weeks. It took us a long time to make it, so we want it to get some exposure. Then, it stops at 300. We try to get it higher, but we can't so it stays on the bottom of the search results, and is harder to find than videos that are inferior but have more views, making those 300 uniques even harder to get.

The popular people are well, popular, so they get the unique views really quick. The 300 glitch still occurs (Mike Mozart mentions it in half of his videos) but it goes away in a few hours. It does NOT go away so easy for the little guys.

Call it a glitch, Call it Utoobs' secret profit scheme, I just wanna call it fixed.

 

My video only has 15 views. I never watch it and I don't advertise it. It's just two pigs eating feed and going "OM NOM NOM".

 

I was under the impression that unique IPs is what made the internet go round. Or that unique IPs counted for a lot more than just the same people watching it. Other people are going to watch the video one way or another, if it's good/funny. It's called getting viral, how do those get popular?

Also there's no mention of paying Youtube to go past it.

 

You have NO idea how rare a viral video is. It's like the chances of winning the lottery or finding a Gold NES world championship cart at a yard sale for $1.

In the meantime, lots of people who have good stuff are finding it impossible to get it NEAR viral because the view block keeps the vids from showing up, as I mentioned.

It's one of two ways. I think I've said that over nine thousaand times by now, but still. The youtubers found out this was a way. Was it planned? Who the hell knows.

 

youtube is already f*cked up.
I hated the 'follow' button instead of the 'subscribe' button.
And I also hated the new video system. You must watch the vids on their channel

 

Hmm, It's quite...interesting that youtube just posted a blog about promotion:

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/

Right below is this list of most watched videos.



GASP! It's mostly bloggers! WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT!