There is something on Youtube which all people who actively upload there hate, TheReplyGirl phenomenon. It works on the idea of creating a forty second to a minute long video with a misleading video title, thumbnail and a video in of which the person making the video shows off as much cleavage as possible with out it being marked as pornography be Youtube standards. Once this is done one would monetize their accounts and post their videos as a reply to that of a popular Youtuber such as Fred.
You may be wondering why this is a big deal. The answer is simple, some of these people were brought into partnership with Machinima and Youtube. Despite already breaking Youtube guidelines with their misleading titles and thumbnails they now had even more reason to bully their competition (also in violation with Youtube Guidelines and rules) and when anyone called them out on this practice they would tag team them and flag the videos for copyright violation. They would also employ bots so they could claim that they had more views than they actually did, earning them more money.
Once this was exposed, everyone who was not happy at having their views leeched or being attacked by these Reply Girls lashed out. I am writing this for those who have not heard that MeganSpeaks, one of the largest among these Reply Girls, will have her account and partnership terminated for hiring bots to view her and her friends videos. You may be wondering why this is a big deal. I'll tell you, first off it is a money making scam. Second off everyone on Youtube fears bots. There are very few people safe to them and some of the most legitimate Youtubers have been taken down for months at a time because of bots.
What I see here is an amazing attempt to clean up our internet for the future. There is still work to do but this is a step in the right direction.
To the internet,
Mike Hand
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