1847
3995 posts
Feb 08, 2017
6:28 PM
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Home Tech
By William Hicks | 6:13 pm, February 8, 2017
Some are calling it the biggest glitch in YouTube history. Major YouTube stars are losing as many as 100,000 subscribers in a matter of five minutes.
The person who found the glitch went from 29,000 subs to -1,500. (Yes, it’s actually gone into negative territory.)
The glitch is very simple and allows anyone to lower the subscriber count of any channel. When you unsubscribe from a channel it counts as -2 from the subscriber tally. So if you unsubscribe and resubscribe repeatedly, you can slowly bring down a YouTuber’s sub count. And now that many people know the glitch, trolls are quickly removing popular channels’ subscribers.
The guy who found the glitch , BlackScreenTV, is doing a livestream, watching the subscriber counts of major YouTube channels plummet. He’s calling the event the “end of YouTube.”
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1847
3996 posts
Feb 08, 2017
6:30 PM
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YouTube’s most popular content creator Pewdiepie did a livestream on Wednesday to freak out over the glitch. He earns about $12 million a year off his subscribers, which are rapidly disappearing.
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RyanMortos
1606 posts
Feb 09, 2017
6:47 AM
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Supposedly this glitch only started on Monday and they already fixed it. From some brief reading it only affects the displayed subscriber count not the actual subscriber count. Still total = total -1 is some grade school stuff & simple solutions to duplicate browser form submits.
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Last Edited by RyanMortos on Feb 09, 2017 6:50 AM
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dougharps
1356 posts
Feb 09, 2017
8:21 AM
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Not cool, disgusting...
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1847
3997 posts
Feb 09, 2017
10:00 AM
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it said the top channel makes 12 million dollars a year.
could that be possible?
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Frank101
217 posts
Feb 09, 2017
12:03 PM
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The top youtube guy. What he does is, post videos of himself playing video games. 53 million people watch those videos of a guy playing video games.
Gotta love the 21st century.
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Frank101
218 posts
Feb 09, 2017
12:05 PM
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PS - and it's not really that much of a step, is it, from sitting in front of a computer watching videos of a guy sitting in front of a computer watching videos, to sitting in front of a computer hitting "subscribe" "unsubscribe" "subscribe" "unsubscribe" "subscribe" ...
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RyanMortos
1608 posts
Feb 09, 2017
1:05 PM
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21st century? Advertising has been around since the 18th century. Radio does it, television does it, lots of ways to do it on the internet. Not to mention all the sites that make it easy to crowd fund just about anything you care to offer.
Also, the content PewDiePie (who I don't watch or follow) makes is inconsequential. He's an entertainer, video games are his medium, and youtube is his stage. There's people getting crowd funded to make all sorts of content on the internet.
Compare what PewDiePie does to commercials that air around the time The Big Bang runs on tv:
"The Big Bang Theory was the most viewed show in CBS’s primetime lineup, with an average weekly viewership of 18.7 million in the 2012-13 season, less than half of Kjellberg’s [PewDiePie] subscriber list. According to the International Business Times, a leaked price list for ad costs in 2013 had CBS charging $326,260 for a 30 second commercial, of which there are eight per episode, for a rough total of $6.5 million per week. In one month the company earned more than three times what Kjellberg [PewDiePie] made in a year while reaching an audience half the size" source.
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Mensh
65 posts
Feb 09, 2017
1:44 PM
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The artist "Banksy," on advertisers:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Frank101
219 posts
Feb 09, 2017
2:29 PM
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How did this thread make a screeching rubber-burning turn into "advertising"? Weird.
Oh well. If people want to watch videos of people watching videos that's fine. No more a waste of time than collecting cigar bands, I guess. Maybe a little.
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