Take THAT, Viacom!

March 20, 2007 7:26 PM

A YouTube Manifesto.A YouTube fan speaks truth to power. And then he shows us teen girls removing clothes! (Believe it or not neither is NSFW.)
posted by davy (32 comments total)

How will this impact my Kirk/Spock Fanfiction site?
Please advise.
posted by Dizzy at 7:36 PM on March 20, 2007

this video represents the youtube community to the world in the same way that john bolton represented the US to the UN
posted by localhuman at 7:41 PM on March 20, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

I wonder if Viacom will be posting a video response. Kewl! LOL.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:43 PM on March 20, 2007

I'm sorry to come out like this, but Sumner Redstone is a loon. This story about Comedy Central's relocation downtown to make it easier for employees to cope with Viacom's massive layoffs - (internationally, to better position itself with Joost?) make me sick.

lawrence lessing writes on the suetube situation (nyt).
posted by phaedon at 7:47 PM on March 20, 2007

Self-link?
posted by TonyRobots at 7:49 PM on March 20, 2007

The clip culture strikes back by creating even more noize nobody cares about. Buhu!
posted by homodigitalis at 7:50 PM on March 20, 2007

Please. You've got to be fucking kidding me.
posted by spicynuts at 7:51 PM on March 20, 2007

That was sweet, but lost me at "definately" and the conflation of copyright with trademark. We need, and I think are actually getting, a lot of intelligent discourse about appropriation other places in media. In almost unprecendented levels. Ehich relegates this little missive to noise. Not the post, tho. And thanks for the link, phaedon.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 7:52 PM on March 20, 2007

0.o
posted by ZachsMind at 7:53 PM on March 20, 2007

That was sweet, but lost me at "definately" and the conflation of copyright with trademark.

...in other news, "Justin Timbelake" misspelled, "Ayn Rand" mispronounced (yet again)...
posted by trip and a half at 8:01 PM on March 20, 2007

In a galaxy far far away......


just sayin'
posted by Wonderwoman at 8:09 PM on March 20, 2007

...in more news, Ayn Rand huge influence on intelligent but lonely high schooler...
posted by Falconetti at 8:11 PM on March 20, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

[this is terrible]
posted by fandango_matt at 8:25 PM on March 20, 2007

No, it's not a self-link. Mine would defintely be NSFW. And copymarked. Or traderighted. Or something.
posted by davy at 8:26 PM on March 20, 2007

Is my soundcard broken again? Reading that was giving me a headache.
posted by IronLizard at 8:41 PM on March 20, 2007

I wonder if the 300-odd hits the video has been glanced at is all from mefi...
posted by porpoise at 8:41 PM on March 20, 2007

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this sucks. Please refund my time
posted by illuminatus at 9:18 PM on March 20, 2007

YouTube needs media relations advisor ?

March 14th, 2007

The man with the coolest name in the blogosphere, Vint Cerf, reckons that YouTube’s bad press (or PR disasters) are part caused by traditional media coverage, which encourages baddies to abuse YouTube…hmmmmm? Isn’t part of YouTube’s brand appeal that it established itself by accommodating the kind of risque, uncensored content that fuelled its popularity, yet which it now seeks to distance itself from? Not sure you can have it both ways Vint and certainly not a productive media relations strategy to blame the media for your current ills, when they’ve been so helpful to YouTube’s profile building (there wasn’t an advertising budget was there?). A bit like Britney shaving her head then blaming the media for showing pics of it, surely? Cerf’s comments appeared in yesterday’s IT section of The Australian.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 9:25 PM on March 20, 2007

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE HOPE ME!!?!
posted by chlorus at 9:26 PM on March 20, 2007

[yawn]
posted by twsf at 9:45 PM on March 20, 2007

not enough naked
posted by sharpener at 10:49 PM on March 20, 2007

GAH. I think youtube has stopped working.
posted by seanyboy at 1:16 AM on March 21, 2007

If I had a dollar for every fucking idiot with no background in the law, economics, or the dynamics of the internets, etc. weighing in on this issue, I'd be richer than Viacom...or those bastages that ran laughing to the bank with $1.65 billion of Google money.
posted by Muddler at 3:07 AM on March 21, 2007

"Ayn Rand" mispronounced (yet again)...

I've always been (mildly) curious. HTF do you pronounce it? I have never actually had a spoken conversation about Ayn Rand, so I'm sure I wouldn't get it right, either.
posted by psmealey at 3:45 AM on March 21, 2007

It's pronounced Ain Rand. (like "ain't", without the 't')
posted by Davidicus at 4:23 AM on March 21, 2007

It's pronounced Ain Rand. (like "taint", without the 't's)
posted by clearlynuts at 5:50 AM on March 21, 2007

It enticed me with the nudity and then failed to deliver.
posted by 13twelve at 6:04 AM on March 21, 2007

I've always been (mildly) curious. HTF do you pronounce it? I have never actually had a spoken conversation about Ayn Rand, so I'm sure I wouldn't get it right, either.

"Atlas Shrugged," said Kite. "that's that big novel by Ayn Rand?"
"That's the one."
"'Ayn' rhymes with 'sane'?"
"rhymes with 'mine,'" Joan said.

Matt Ruff- Sewer,Gas & Electric, p.106

posted by Lentrohamsanin at 6:39 AM on March 21, 2007

How do you pronounce "Ayn"?
"Ayn" rhymes with "mine."

Excerpted from a letter to a fan, 1937:
"Your letter inquiring about the origin of my name has been forwarded to me. In answer to your question, I must say that 'Ayn' is both a real name and an invention. The original of it is a Finnish feminine name. . . . Its pronunciation, spelled phonetically, would be: 'I-na.' I do not know what its correct spelling should be in English, but I chose to make it 'Ayn,' eliminating the final 'a.' I pronounce it as the letter 'I' with an 'n' added to it."
Letters of Ayn Rand, page 40

She really was a bit of a dick.
posted by trip and a half at 7:56 AM on March 21, 2007

"AYN Rand."
posted by cortex at 8:38 AM on March 21, 2007

This sucked.

I hate it when people overpronounce words in an effort to make them seem "strange" or "foreign."

Say "youtube." Saying YOoo TOOOB makes your sound like a cock waffle.

And wtf? Who can't pronounce Yu-Gi-Oh? It's spelled that way so that 50-ish douchebags can even pronounce it. Don't say You. Gee. Ohh. It's simply yougheeoh. not hard.

"I'm an old guy, and so I have to overpronounce these strange words that are certainly foreign to the majority of my 300-member listening audience but will resonate with a certain minority." No, it makes you sound like a third-grader struggling through her first Ayn Rand novel. Which were written for third graders.

But, I reiterate, this post was stupid and will probably be deleted.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 8:45 AM on March 21, 2007

Huh. I've always assumed "Ayn" was pronounced like "Anne" and sorta rhymed with "Rand." Didn't know that even the pronunciation of her name stirred controversy. Something tells me she would have appreciated that.

What YouTube, this silly and poorly made video, and Viacom have to do with Ayn Rand is beyond me. Again I say...

0.o
posted by ZachsMind at 9:11 AM on March 21, 2007