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One thing I dislike about YouTube is how people with good content don’t make the top ranks while others with relatively poor content do. A typical case of this is the channel Fred. I have watched about 2 full videos, but attempted to watch others with unsuccessful results and was thinking to myself, “who would watch this and why has a million people subscribed to this?”
Don’t get me wrong, the kid is a genius for coming up with the story and making a consistant series but I don’t see how this is funny or where the incentive is to subscribe. For this reason it frustrated me that Fred was number one until just a day or two ago. NigaHiga, who produces funny content, regained the number one spot again. I think he had it before at one point, I can’t remember.
The margin is only 3000 subscribers (Hey! That’s how many I had!) so it could still reverse. It would be interesting to see how many YouTube accounts there are and what percentage are subscribed to these channels. I have actually subscribed to NigaHiga on my personal account because of the reasons stated before. It’s also nice to see large corporations, specifically record labels not dominating the Most Subscribed list because they don’t produce content which belongs on YouTube.
To the contrary, look at the most viewed rankings and majority of the channels are record labels or music associated acts. It’s disappointing to try and see who has got (and most likely deserved) the views of top channels and to see good content when it is spammed by music videos. All music videos do is give a reason for the music in to be played on TV, go to Last.FM or Pandora for that stuff.
My channel is RhysIsKindaCool if you want to subscribe, no videos yet though, it’s mainly for subscriptions, I am unsure if I will post my videos again on YouTube or not. Time will tell.
Well as stated in my last post I have been expecting my account to be closed for some time. The final straw was an x Games 14 MotoX Best Trick mashup I posted. ESPN wasn’t very happy about it. I guess deleting 5 videos didn’t cut it. Anyways I don’t even feel like I lost something because I have been working on an even better project (this site’s video section).
I will have all my videos plus more posted on this site as soon as I can. I’ll have to upload them at University since their speed is…. fast. Honestly, YouTube is not the place for my sort of videos. I understand I own nothing and don’t claim the video nor music but the editing is mine. Anyway the stats were:
- 3150+ Subscribers
- Over 5 million views on non-deleted videos
- 70k+ Channel views
- Account Created: August, 2006
- Account Closed: August. 2009
- Videos: Approx. 50-80 (total over the years)
- Former YouTube Partner
Obviously I can’t get exact stats since I don’t have access to my channel anymore, these are from memory.
Stay tuned! KICKERMAN360 will live on at KICKERfilm.com!
Transformers 2 Poster
I’m sure everybody has seen it, and right off the bat I’m gonna say it was average. These following words will sum up the whole movie: Big explosions, Panning shots of large areas and slow motion. The plot was nothing short of a failure in my opinion. Even after watching the first movie days prior I had no idea what was happening when the movie began. The prior movie didn’t even give a lead on to a sequel yet explain further plot elements.
Through out the whole movie I was trying to figure not what would happen next (that is pretty obvious) but who was fighting who. When the machines tackle each other it becomes nothing short of a mess. I also never knew Autobots could fuse together and Decepticon could turn good; I’m sure they could have come up with another, more interesting way to figure out what the symbols meant.
The movie takes a stab at some humour but I hardly laughed because of the jokes, instead laughing at the stupidity of the film. Michael Bay’s films are nothing more than what was described before; explosions, slow mo and huge panning shots. Transformers has been transformed into something else than what I and every one else thought it was.
Here a few things I couldn’t understand:
- Why is there so much damage to cities yet people seem to fall for a cover up
- With today’s technology if a robot walked down the street it would be all over the web in 10 minutes
- How come the old Decepticon/Autobot could travel to Egypt instantly yet everyone else just drives or flies
- Since when could Decepticons be humans and how come there is only one?
Those are just a few of my questions. It may just be that I haven’t read enough comics – I will admit I’m not a total Transformers fan but I will see the film nevertheless. In my opinion I give it a 6/10. Hardly worth any praise. The story was probably picked from a school writing contest.
The best parts to the film were of Reggie Simmons, some of the things he said as well as the actions had me laughing despite the illogical nonsense going on. He was the former CIA agent of Sector 7.