If no one else finds this YouTuber offensive, I will.
Will someone explain what the concept is, here? Every time I search for a video, grav3yardgirl, aka Bunny Meyer, shows up as the #1 or #2 video, “featured,” which I think means it is a paid advert. God help you if you click on one, you will be deluged with a list of her other, similar videos, all done with a fisheye lens in closeup while she wears exaggerated makeup and mugs for the camera.
“How does this thing work?”
No one gets this much exposure without paying for it. So what is her game? Is it just to get the maximum number of eyeballs, gathering the maximum YouTube payments? She doesn’t appear to be selling any particular product.
If so, she is working the system pretty well. Personally, I find her intensely annoying and feel ashamed of the one time I clicked on a video to see what the fuss was all about. As Mad magazine so eloquently put it,* Yeccch.*
Now that’s funny. I was thinking “Who’d ever click on a Stupid Girl Being Stupid video?” when someone comes along to say “Well, it’s better than that stupid girl! Or that one!”
And after checking out about 20 seconds of one of the videos, I am so glad I didn’t know anything about it before. I’m going to do my best to forget I ever heard about it.
See, that’s my problem. One of her videos pops up as the first on any Youtube list I find, with that fisheye, distorted image of her ugly face. Hard to forget.
Whoever the OP is talking about, I’ve never noticed her and I’m on YouTube daily with several subscriptions I watch regularly. So, there must be some content filter at work, because I don’t see her in my suggested stuff, and if she’s showing up in searches it’s not anywhere I’ve noticed.
Maybe you’re watching content that’s dangerously close to grav3yardgirl videos, and so youtube thinks you might like them as well? I’ve certainly never heard of her.
It’s a type of popularity leeching. This is less of a problem than it used to be since Google cracked down on it and changed their algorithms a bit. What happens is when a video gets popular, a “reply girl” would make a 30second-1min video that has the same title as the video. The “content” of the video would be at about the level of smart spambots (“i am also interested in this topic, tallgirls.net” sort of stuff). And the thumbnail would be pretty focused on their cleavage. It would, of course, have ads before it.
So you’d get a video called, for instance
PSY - GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) M/V
Except the thumbnail is about 80% boobs, and it’s just a 30-second clip of some perky girl saying things that amount to “Gangnam style is cool, guys!” They were usually hired by companies because they were a really low-maintenance source of ad revenue, since Youtube’s old algorithms would bump their videos to high priority in searches since they shared a title with a popular video. Since this made them flood the “related videos” section of highly popular videos they got a lot of hate. Probably a disproportionate amount, since in reality they were pretty easy to avoid even if there were a lot of them right before the crackdown. Youtube finally took action after a blowup where a major Youtube partner (Machinima) hired one and people overreacted like people on the internet are wont to do.
I’ll admit, the “reply girl” thing was just a bit of a cheap shot on my part, I didn’t expect to have to explain it.
She’s sort of one of the You Tube “beauty gurus” as they are sometimes called. I actually think her “Does This Thing Really Work?” videos are kind of funny, but a little of her goes a long way. The beauty products that she reviews are sometimes bought with her own money but sometimes are sent to her by the company. That is a thing on You Tube. For example, I believe that Tarte sends her products to review.
She is one of the so-called gurus who became very popular, and there are others out there. Some of these people actually do this as their job. They don’t have an outside job; they make money from You Tube hits.
