Youtube! Uh! What is it good for..?

Filed by: Darren on November 24, 2006 at 9:04
Filed In: Humour, Music

I was chatting to a mate of mine the other day, and one of the subjects that came up was Youtube. My mate wondered what in the unholy names of the nine hells the point of it was; it's nothing more than a dump for all the tedious crap that people churn out when they've got nothing better to do, surely? So why would anyone bother?

A lot of truth in that... but then every so often you come across something that someone has put a decent amount of time, thought and creativity into. Like this piece by a guy called Lasse Gjertsen, which made me smile:

There you go, mate. That's the point of Youtube. It's just a shame that so many people on there (over 6,000 of them who think that mixing coke and mentos is funny when you've seen it more than once, for instance...) seem to have missed the point completely...

Filed on: November 24, 2006
Filed under: Humour, Music
Tagged with: Lasse-Gjertsen | YouTube |

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2 Responses to 'Youtube! Uh! What is it good for..?'

Ed on November 30th, 2006 12:14 am

I must admit to spending a wee bit too much time on YouTube - search, oh there's
another link, click, oh another link, click...oh has an hour passed already.
It's great for music stuff, although why some people feel it necessary to upload the same video
that somebody else has already posted does escape me. Found the only video made by
superlative Japanese metal band Sigh on there.
Ariel on November 30th, 2006 7:06 am

Exactly right, mate. All that repetition does get a bit stupid, and it dilutes the whole point of the voting system as well. But like you say, finding rare music vids is the plus-side of the whole thing. Hey, I wonder if there's any NMA on there..?

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