Tag Archives: YouTube

Edge Boston is reporting that local authorities have visited the home of ChristianU2uber, the 12 year-old boy who came out as “ex-gay” on YouTube and became the hero of the Christianist right after suffering hundreds of vicious comments. [C]oncern voiced at Internet news resources, blogs, and forums for Scott’s well-being seem to have had a result. EDGE received an email …

Whether you like her or not, it’s rather fascinating to watch how Susan Boyle has blown existing internet viewing records out of the water. The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle, whose online popularity is headed straight to the history books. The video of Boyle’s performance in the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” has set the record …

One of my favorite YouTubers just forwarded me the message he got from YouTube explaining why his clip of Rachel Maddow discussing those NOM audition tapes was pulled for copyright violations. Here’s a bit of “assistant to the director” of NOM Joshua Baker’s complaint about the clip: The copyrighted work at issue is an audition tape produced by the National …

“I used to be gay but then I decided it was wrong and I stopped it. Now I’m very interested in girls,” says 12 year-old YouTuber ChristianU2uber in a clip posted two weeks ago. He says he learned that being gay was a sin on the news. Christianist site WorldNetDaily has taken an interest in the kid and yesterday posted …

Finally an all-Lego musical version of Silence Of The Lambs. This killed me. Dead. Possibly NSFW. (Via – Slog)

An adorkable deaf dude gives us a sexy ASL version of Britney Spears’ Womanizer. This has been floating around YouTube for a few weeks, but for some reason a dozen of you sent this yesterday. I live to serve.

President Obama sends this message to the Iranian people as they mark Nowruz, the Iranian new year holiday which comes on the first day of spring. Only Nixon could go to China; only Obama would use YouTube to speak to Iran.

YouTube users in the UK cannot see music videos at the moment, thanks to another breakdown between Google and the major music publishers. Google Inc. said Monday it will block U.K. users from watching music videos on its popular video-sharing site YouTube after negotiations with Britain’s music royalty-collecting body broke down. Google said it would begin blocking British users starting …

Here’s Barack Obama’s first weekly message via the White House’s fancy new official YouTube channel. It’s rather comical to read the usual YouTube quality of comments on an official presidential channel. “OMG! LOLOLS!1!! U totally pwnd Gitmo! URULE!1!”

It’s not clear why, exactly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has posted a YouTube video showing her cats padding around her office at the Capitol Building. Wait for the 40-second mark where Pelosi shows off her YouTube-y hipness.

Yesterday the Israeli army launched their own channel on YouTube so the world can witness the mighty mighty power of their American-made-and-paid-for technology.

Warner Music announced yesterday that they will be pulling their clips from YouTube in a compensation dispute. Warner Music Group’s videos will no longer be available on YouTube due to a contract dispute between the music company and the popular video-sharing website, US media reported. Talks between the two firms over licensing agreements for Warner’s music videos collapsed last week, …

I had no idea this was happening, but ever since YouTube added advertisements to the clips of their most popular members, the creators of those clips are making big bucks, including gay gossiper Michael Buckley. One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning …

Somebody didn’t like the comments I posted on various Yes On 8 clips on YouTube. Text comments you posted to YouTube have been identified as spam, and have been deleted from the site. Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to …

Via press release: In a first for an American political campaign, the NO on Prop 8 campaign will pay to air two spots that were originally produced and uploaded to YouTube by supporters completely independent of the campaign. “We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of talent and creativity that has just exploded on the Internet,” said Patrick Guerriero, NO …

Two psychiatrists have identified the “signature mental illness” of the YouTube era, people who think they are the star of their own reality show. The five patients Dr. Gold treated were white men between the ages of 25 and 34, the majority of whom held university degrees. “I realized that I was and am the centre, the focus of attention …

In a case that has privacy advocates outraged, a federal court has ordered Google to give Viacom the list of videos viewed by every YouTube visitor. Last year Viacom sued YouTube for over $1B, charging them with “massive intentional copyright infringement”. A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used …

Yeah, not very PC…but damn funny. Wait for the last line. UPDATE: For those of you questioning the possibly homophobic intent of the clip’s makers, here is a comment they made on YouTube: “Actually you must have missed the satirical commentary on how we view gay relationships in this country. We find homophobia ridiculous and immature. In the video, us …

Someone has finally YouTube’d my favorite New York commercial. The collagened-to-fuck lips! The hair extensions! And the nails! My god, the nails! So you should cawl us! Linda Richman should sue.

Two million views on YouTube in under 10 days. Visit the I’m Voting Republican site. Frightening and hilarious.