# My "Open Letter" to Fucking IDIOTIC YouTube Video Posters **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 19, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691 "2007-05-19T04:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/21 "2007-05-19T09:40:06Z")
I get fed up with Music Videos which invariably turn out to be random idiots and their friends dancing around in their living room- or, worse- obscure anime set to the music. My fiancee loves YouTube, though- I think primarily _because_ it’s full of random stuff and she loves finding something especially amusing or unusual in amongst all the rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/22 "2007-05-19T12:59:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] It’s just that I have this vision of what a “perfect” YouTube would be like: All meat and no fat. All 4 or 5 stars, no 1 or 2 stars. I just find the current incarnation frustrating and banal. [/QUOTE] I feel your pain, really I do, but I would also like to point out, from a sense of historical perspective, that these identical words have been said about _every single_ mass-market entertainment media that has come along in the last 150 years or so. They said it about daily newspapers. They said it about vaudeville. They said it about movies. They said it about comic books. They said it about television. They said it about cable. And they said it about the Internet as a whole. The elitists have complained, loudly, that all of these are too much dreck and not enough “quality”, completely ignoring the fact that mass-market entertainment by its very nature **is** dreck and not quality, for the simple reason that it only exists to serve a clientele that _prefers_ dreck to quality. So, you’re in good company–you and all yer elitist friends. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/23 "2007-05-19T13:35:38Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] And another thing (and this is going to blow your fucking mind): When you title your clip: “Alligator rides unicycle while doing long division”, I want to see AN ALLIGATOR RIDING A UNICYCLE DOING LONG DIVISION. I don’t wanna see no crocodile, I don’t wanna see no regular bicycle, and I don’t wanna see no fucking calculators. Abacus?.. maybe. An Alligator using an abacus would be alright, I guess. Ya dig? [/QUOTE] Be fair; many people can’t easily distinguish between an alligator and a crocodile. Re: YouTube… You’re familiar with Sturgeon’s Law? “90% of everything is crap.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/24 "2007-05-19T14:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] Be fair; many people can’t easily distinguish between an alligator and a crocodile. Re: YouTube… You’re familiar with Sturgeon’s Law? “90% of everything is crap.” [/QUOTE] I think Sturgeon’s an optimist, the real total’s about nine points higher. **Shamozzle** , I think you should videotape yourself reading that rant and post it to youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/25 "2007-05-19T14:38:30Z")
Wow, it’s really too bad you don’t have any way of figuring out what videos other viewers thought were awesome. Some kind of… rating system? Maybe a way for you to just _tell_ people what you thought about it? Nah, it would never work. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/26 "2007-05-19T14:41:16Z")
You know, occasionally I glance at the comments under the videos. WTF??? That’s where the crazy people are. Jeezopete. I don’t have any problem with stupid videos, cuz I don’t watch them. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/27 "2007-05-19T15:53:05Z")
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES! If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours" ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/28 "2007-05-19T16:14:55Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES! If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours" [/QUOTE] HAH! She’s already dead! Dumbass! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/29 "2007-05-19T17:10:00Z")
You know, this is pretty out there, but I have a solution-perhaps you could try, I dunno, not watching it maybe? Yeah, I know, it sounds crazy, but it just might work. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/30 "2007-05-19T18:15:50Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] **Shamozzle** , I think you should videotape yourself reading that rant and post it to youtube. [/QUOTE] I think he should take a cat, hold it up in front of the camcorder, and jiggle the cat slightly while reading the rant in a silly voice. Because it would look like the _cat_ is _talking_, you see. Which would be _funny._ And at the end, after the rant is done, there should be a pause of a couple of seconds, and then the cat should say, “Ow, my balls.” Fade out. Oh, and there should be techno music playing softly in the background the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/31 "2007-05-19T19:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I think he should take a cat, hold it up in front of the camcorder, and jiggle the cat slightly while reading the rant in a silly voice. Because it would look like the _cat_ is _talking_, you see. Which would be _funny._ And at the end, after the rant is done, there should be a pause of a couple of seconds, and then the cat should say, “Ow, my balls.” Fade out. Oh, and there should be techno music playing softly in the background the whole time. [/QUOTE] I would so totally watch that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/32 "2007-05-19T20:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] I feel your pain, really I do, but I would also like to point out, from a sense of historical perspective, that these identical words have been said about _every single_ mass-market entertainment media that has come along in the last 150 years or so. They said it about daily newspapers. They said it about vaudeville. They said it about movies. They said it about comic books. They said it about television. They said it about cable. And they said it about the Internet as a whole. The elitists have complained, loudly, that all of these are too much dreck and not enough “quality”, completely ignoring the fact that mass-market entertainment by its very nature **is** dreck and not quality, for the simple reason that it only exists to serve a clientele that _prefers_ dreck to quality. So, you’re in good company–you and all yer elitist friends. 😛 [/QUOTE] Well, if yearning for a better YouTube makes me an elitist, pass the caviar. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/33 "2007-05-19T20:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] I think Sturgeon’s an optimist, the real total’s about nine points higher. **Shamozzle** , I think you should videotape yourself reading that rant and post it to youtube. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t do that. Do you know why? Because it would suck. Give a hoot, don’t pollute. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/34 "2007-05-19T20:06:06Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Wow, it’s really too bad you don’t have any way of figuring out what videos other viewers thought were awesome. Some kind of… rating system? Maybe a way for you to just _tell_ people what you thought about it? Nah, it would never work. [/QUOTE] YouTube’s rating system doesn’t go far enough in reflecting the quality of the videos they rate. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/35 "2007-05-19T21:50:45Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES! If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours" [/QUOTE] Damn, you beat me to it. However, this type of idiotic crap makes me thank Og that the Dope is moderated. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/36 "2007-05-19T21:56:48Z")
I do think the descriptions should related to the contents of the video in some way. “Britney Spears naked dildo bondage with Hillary Clinton” should not be used to describe a kitten playing with a ball of yarn, for example. Even if that kitten IS “so darn cute!” ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/37 "2007-05-19T21:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] YouTube’s rating system doesn’t go far enough in reflecting the quality of the videos they rate. [/QUOTE] Damn, that toy car vid was so cool!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/38 "2007-05-20T01:09:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Ok, not all of them. Just the ones who post absolute [crap](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiWA4krhII). [/QUOTE] You want crap? Do a search on YouTube for “numa” and play anything it returns. Perhaps [I’m just getting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egmG0zG3f6g&mode=related&search=) [old](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmjEQ1BWzU) [but](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6j475XI1Xg) [I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ODWZol7tdY) [don’t](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2eXm1Cq6qw) [get](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UCmo31FNpc) [it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIL5r49cX98). ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/39 "2007-05-20T01:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] You want crap? Do a search on YouTube for “numa” and play anything it returns. Perhaps [I’m just getting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egmG0zG3f6g&mode=related&search=) [old](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmjEQ1BWzU) [but](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6j475XI1Xg) [I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ODWZol7tdY) [don’t](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2eXm1Cq6qw) [get](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UCmo31FNpc) [it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIL5r49cX98). [/QUOTE] Holy fuck, those are stupid. This is exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about. How can anyone have a problem with my criticism of this garbage? It’s cultural pollution, Iz tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691/40 "2007-05-20T01:49:06Z")
My favorite lame YouTubes are the “TV shows cut to make music videos.” You know, the tribute to the OC’s dead Marissa, set to the “How could this happen to me?” song. Or scenes of House set to “Not an Addict.” :rolleyes: They’re always like, “OMG, I heard this song and thought of blahblahblah…so I made this video, enjoy~~~” My husband and I find these things hysterical and have been known to spend large amounts of time spreading the ridicule. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-open-letter-to-fucking-idiotic-youtube-video-posters/404691.md?page=3)