Yay! We got a pressie!
Isn’t that great? YouTube gave us all a super-special surprise today, with their newest, bestest feature: an automatic scrolling ticker of possibly-related videos running across the bottom of every one of our own YouTube videos, right there in our blogs! How sweet is that, eh?
It’s just too bad that there is absolutely no screening for/against porn or graphic, real-life violence anywhere in this process.
Imagine my feelings upon discovering over on the WordPress.com technical help forum that a few of my friends had been enjoying the delights of superfatty porn (900+ pounds! I had a horse that weighed that) on my very blog while I was innocently watching nothing more exciting than the admittedly-delightful Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre performing their classic version of the Seventies outcast anthem Bohemian Rhapsody.
So YouTube thinks it can porn me and send a surprise
So they think they can pwn me and I’ll not get wise?
Oh baby – can’t pull shit like that, baby
Just gotta get it out – just gotta get it outta here
YouTube=BoobTube
Snuff films really matter
Your lawyer can see
This shit really matters – to your p/e.
Yes, snuff videos are also featured in the lineup, although not on that particular video; there are many such easter eggs to find if you troll around a bit. These have even more impact when you find them on a child’s blog or a church, mosque or temple blog. How delighted they must be!
YouTube has thoughtfully added a way to shut off this feature, but alas it doesn’t work in WordPress.com blogs at all, so it seems. And it must be shut off video by video, even those in the archives. UPDATE: WordPress itself has figured out a way to circumvent this en masse, and now the feature works on precisely No WordPress.com blogs. Why they thought this “feature” should be the default rather than the option I do not know; or rather, I do: eyeball grabs. Literal versions of this metaphor are visible in the “related videos” to any number of children’s program clips.
How charming: it’s PeeWee’s Playhouse featuring today’s special guest, Willy Pickton!
Update 2.0: and YouTube caves to global outrage. Kinda
YouTube seems to sense disdain towards the new player and decided not to push users to hard (for the time being). So, rather than showing related videos at the bottom of the player (and the two annoying arrows on the two sides that on-click would seamlessly play the next related video) every time users hover over the video, you will see them only if you click on the ‘menu’ button or when the video finishes. In this case, the original video is zoomed out and also displays embedded code and URL of video.
As for the fatty porn: well, they say any more than an SUV-full is wasted…still, I was completely verklempt at the thought that these alleged respectobiggles were scratching their kink porn itches on the ol’ raincoaster blog, for all the world as if it were a sandstone dildo or sumpin. For shame, YouKnowWhoYouAre! And you over two thousand other video watchers today…
And I thought you loved me for my mind.
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raincoaster 
Yes Virginia, that is a Coke bottle . . . . . bitch!
Look it up.
I musta missed summat. But is it really safe to come out now?
i heart fatty porn.
Trying out the phrase:
I love Raincoaster for her mind sniggers hysterically into sleeve.
As for Fatty Porn, FFE you surely aren’t pushing the old coke bottle around the ‘net are you? You don’t work for Hearst anymore.
Now, RC, this sandstone dildo business sounds terribly unfortunate: tell all. Post pics.
I’ll even pop for the premium membership, I will, I will!
Ha…ha…Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish at The Atlantic Magazine, is full of the YouTube strange crap today!! It looks like he posted YouTubes without noticing the big change. Chump!!
Yeah, it was a cheap shot, I know.
One wonders WTF were TPTB at YouTube thinking when they foisted this new feature on bloggers without any adult content filtering? I stumbled this post.
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It’s safe on WordPress, but blogger blogs will have to turn off this feature individually, for each of their YouTubes, otherwise there is no guarantee of SFW-ness.
FFE, why would you assume I didn’t know exactly what I was doing when I posted that image? I got it from a very nice 12 year old, and did him the favour of not linking it back to his site, lest I burn out his innocence.
tt, thanks. Hasn’t had the impact I was hoping for here, unfortunately. But maybe the story has legs, particularly as they still refuse to shut the feature off, just adapted it so the slideshow of video delights plays at the end instead of all during the video.
Thanks again to wordpress, who were on this faster than anyone.
btw that is NOT a “WordPress.com” W on Rove’s shoulder, although it should be.
Did someone say…snuff videos?
Where can I find some my sweet little snuff dealer?
You could try Metro’s blog: he’s on Blogger and FAR too lazy to have coded in the change.
I resemble that remark!
Once I get out of bed, have a couple of cups of coffee, soak in the hot tub and blog for a couple of hours you’re in serious trouble, young lady!
Eventually. No need to rush things.
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Exactly. I hear Andrew Sullivan’s got all kinds of straight hawt nekkid action on his blog now, unbeknownst to him. He’s on vacation. But hey, that’s what we bloggers have interns for, eh? For reformatting every single YouTube video on our blogs while we’re off working on our tans OOOPS I mean our novels.