You Can’t Stop Me From Loving Myself
YouTube has made a new enemy: ARMYs.
“Ohohohoh. Ohohohoooo.” –Hook from “Idol” by Bangtan Sonyeondan
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I’m not the kind of person who frequently leaves comments on various social media outlets when someone posts something new, interesting, trendy, etc.
I may Like or Retweet a comment, but that’s the extent of my “socialness.”
If I have any form of benevolence or malevolence about something, I write about it–hence this post.
So, let’s get [to] it–*in my Jung Kook voice.
YouTube has done a bad, bad thing. Several bad things, really, in the last nine months: striking or deleting people’s channels due to arbitrary rules about copyright infringement; deleting videos; and, *gasp, tampering with videos’ view counts.
“The computer did it” has become the new “the dog ate it.”
But as we know, the computer, at least for now anyway, is controlled by humans and they can twist algorithms any which why they want, and the ones that “win” based on the data are the ones the human controllers prefer or were paid to prefer.
That’s what happens when you make one brand the end-all, be-all in town.
If music videos were actually world premiered and consistently played on TV, like they should, then no one would need to rely on YouTube for his/her daily visual and audial fix and record companies’ bottom line.
I read a quote that said people don’t change, the mask just falls off.
Which is so true.
YouTube used to be a haven for DIYers–teaching a skill set or showcasing a skill set.
It was not intended to become the MTV, VH1, BET, and Fuse of the Internet.
But now that it is…
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You can complain all you want about how unfair the company’s practices are, and all its big-wigs are going to do is laugh from their throne, dusting imaginary crumbs (i.e., you) from their elegant silk robes, slurring, “Peasants. Peasants.”
Like Frankenstein, we created the monster and now we want to chase it through the streets with our flaming torches now that we’ve realized that it can’t be controlled or reasoned with.
The system is discriminatory.
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YouTube easily believes that Taylor Swift can garner 43 plus million views in 24 hours and 100 million plus views within four to five days, though she’s from the U.S., which only has a population of 330 million, and has a fandom that tips at maybe a million plus people–I’m being generous.
And, according to YouTube, when a video casts a large amount of views in a short time span, it freezes the views on the video, counts them, and gets rid of views that are not “quality” views–meaning, views from individuals who have streamed the video multiple times.
So, YouTube, you contend that the views you count from Taylor Swift and other popular Western artists like her are individual-based, that those are not views from people watching/streaming her videos multiple times, that she has hundreds of million people across the globe watching her videographies???
I’m from the U.S. and am an intense music lover, and I can’t tell you one Taylor Swift video that I have watched or tell you the lyrics of one of her songs from her “historic” 10-plus year career.
Let an Asian or other foreign artist that is considered a “minority” in the U.S. with a fan-base in the multimillions–due to the fact their fans come from countries with a half a billion to a billion plus people–pull views that far surpass that of a Western artist like Swift, etc., and this is what you will get from YouTube:
1. A 14-hour freeze on video views.
2. 30 plus million views deleted.
3. YouTube representatives telling unhappy subscribers aka customers to tell the music artist(s) to stop “encouraging” them to “spam” YouTube because “they” (the artist[s]) are not “happy” with the results…
Wait a minute. Let me take a second and become as unprofessional as these YouTube representatives.
Bitch (genderless), you really think a billion-dollar revenue making music group is going to take the time out of their uber-busy schedule to “push” their fans in to complaining to YouTube about views on a video when they sell out arenas in minutes, pre-sale albums in the millions, and are sponsored by major worldwide brands???
Like, for reals, YouTube?
Sh*t, let me sip on that…
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You know, the movie Crazy Rich Asians is #1 at the U.S. box office for the second week in a row. I guess, if I’m using Youtube’s logic, only other Asians, who make up barely six percent of the U.S. population, went to see it, and they only saw it once because the box office does not count revenue from individuals who saw the movie multiple times.
LMFAO!
YouTube, stop being discriminatory when it comes to views and your subscribers.
You can’t pick and choose who you want to support: Oh, those are a bunch of cute girls with sexy outfits, singing about nonsense, so they’re harmless; oh, he’s a living parody, a one-hit wonder type, let his cartoonish a** have his 15 minutes.
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Nevertheless, my friends, there is a solution to almost every problem.
Money = power.
Take away their money: the fees you pay for your subscriptions, stop your foot traffic across their web site, and delete your channel yourself or delete your videos.
Force YouTube to play fair or force record companies and yourselves to create another, more balanced forum to showcase their and your talent.
It’s fine to complain. But it’s best to be proactive.
Never let anyone make you think you don’t have a voice, and that you don’t matter.
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Remember, we are bulletproof.
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Dedicated to my famdom.
