As some of you know, for a few months now I've had most of my video work up on YouTube. I take a lot of pride in my work and I've been happy to get what I, up until a day ago, considered a respectable number of hits. The Perfect Human video has been viewed 447 times; the trailers for my film, 757 and 447 times respectively. My other films have had a bit more meager turn out: 40 viewings for "Apt 421", and a very low 34 hits for my documentary "Outsported". Only a day ago I posted on YouTube a video my friend Andy recorded of me receiving a painful foot massage. In the past day this video has amassed a over 1,400 hits - it's also received honors for being one of the "Most discussed videos in the travel category". WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I put my sweat and time into videos I actually care about, and no one watches them. Then, I post me being tickled and the next day "DRTICKLES" has subscribed to my video stream. I think to moral of the story is that YouTube is not really a place for filmmakers. It's a place for people with weird clips of random shit that people in the tickle fetish circles will find and latch onto. Sorry to rant. That's all for now. Go watch my real films or something.
-Misha
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There's always approximately 10x as much demand for porn/erotic content as there is for all other content combined. Worldwide horniness supersedes all other things. Flickr is exactly the same way- all the most popular shots are naked women with big breasts, and most of the other stuff is colorful macro pictures of nice flowers, or sweeping majestic landscapes. Porn and mindless desktop wallpaper, in other words.
These websites essentially function by giving soft porn and novelties to a bunch of slack-jawed dopes in exchange for ad views.
However, the uselessness of the so-called "YouTube community" is completely immaterial to its usefulness as a free hosting solution for video content. So yeah, don't despair. We still love you.
Ramble ramble ramble.
i think that when you get your lifetime achievement award at the oscars, "outsported" will be recognized as the unsung gem of your oeuvre...
ditto nick. nothing is really safe, either - if you can fetishize it it will be more interesting.
one of my most frequently viewed flickr pictures is a photo of my mom at a wedding. creepy dudes came by to e-whisper, 'what a beautiful neck your mother has...'
so i guess what i'm sayin' is, don't take page hits as a sign of inherent content valuation. or something.
Let's get some ball gags, nipple clamps and ass plugs and just re-shoot ARAYL. problem solved.
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