(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I am writing this in a slightly maddened state, sorry if I come off as a little rude.

Okay, so before I go on a rant I'm going to (try to) calmly say what makes YouTube suck now to the average user- then explain how YouTube screwed me out of several hundred dollars.

So first off, why YouTube sucks(when compared to how it was before Google got involved):
- The design of the channels on YouTube was changed sometime last year, and brought along a ****-load of bugs with it. Whilst the design itself wasn't all that bad, the bugs often made YouTube unusable and some of them still aren't fixed... which brings me onto my next point.
- Bugs. How is it Google manages to create 5 new bugs everytime they fix just 1 problem or change 1 feature? It's f*cking unbelievable.
- Several new home-pages, the current one being the worst of the lot. Why the f*ck has everybody been getting less and less views on their videos lately? Because of this stupid design that clogs up all of your subscription uploads! That's why! The worst part is however they won't even give us an option to change back, despite thousands and thousands of messages clogging up their blog and facebook page begging for them to undo the mess they have made.
- Ads. Remember there used to be so few ads, even on partner videos? Now it's hard to find a video of any nature without an ad, nice job putting profit ahead of the people making you all your money Google :y:
- BS flagging system. Many of you will already know how exploitable this is, and I've seen several mass flagging bots being sold around the forums, proving it works very well- actually too well. Any non-partner video can be taken down with a few BS flags, meaning if someone has it in for you you're f*cked. This also brings me onto my short story from this morning...


So I wake up, normal day, and I sign-in to my old YouTube- the one with the modding videos featuring hunter from before the jailbreak was even possible. Then I see a notice at the top, saying my MW2 Mods video of over 300,000 views has been mass-flagged under "scamming" and removed from YouTube.
I understand why YouTube might classify it as scamming with a sharecash link in the description, but if they actually cared to try it out themselves they'd see they do actually get a full tutorial on jailbreaking and modding CoD, I believe I copy/pasted Juddy's tutorial p) into a .txt file for the download.
But yeah, that doesn't sound so bad. It will now. The past 29 days alone I have made over $500 from that video, which for someone of 15 years of age and in a bad financial situation is a ****-load of money, especially for sitting on my ass all day. And who knows how much more money I could have made? Certainly at least another $500 over the coming weeks/months, and that's at a bare minimum.

So yeah, YouTube just screwed me out of hundreds of dollars. I have appealed the decision to have it removed, status is pending. But knowing YouTube's terrible support I have little hope.

You know whats even worse? They cash whore so much with ADS they now put them onto all channel pages into the top right corner, it doesn't appear all the time but most of the time they do...

I've also had ADS put on a video (Those ones that you have to watch before watching the video ) on my actual videos, I was thinking WTF?! I'm not a YT partner, It didn't have any copyright infringements, no ToS breaches or anything.

Like seriously.. Its beyond a joke, also I've got to say the previous youtube homepage was the best, I especially liked how on the right side it had for example:

0 Comments
2 Shared with you
3 Personal Messages

Now they changed it to two little buttons in the shape of a piece of paper and a letter somewhere around the F*cked up homepage.

And WORST of all is how by default it starts by friend activity rather than subscriptions, like WTF?! I come on here to watch videos from people I sub to, not random videos I don't care about.

It's beyond annoying, Youtube staff must be retarded or something seriously.


And also, they took down my 3.55 Custom Firmware vid with 50000 views, due to a 'Terms of service breach', ****ing fags.

Glad you guys agree, what we gamers need is for a website to swoop in and just give us gamers a seamless experience with none of this BS; it woulda actually be a great idea for NGU to expand that way although I doubt it'll happen.

I totalyy agree with you.

We should make our own version of youtube, maybe call it CodTube?

Youtube sold out. AD's make me hate going on it.

Gaming_____ would be good, if it has CoD in the name we're kinda tied to it

you suck! I <3 youtube!!! And ray william johnsons funny ass videos! + failblog!

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WTF? Spam? :dingding: