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what these criminal business bozos will never get..

..is that a large part of the broad appeal of sites like youtube and myspace is that it harkens back to the old days of the net where there was very little corporate influence and the everyday person on the street was able to say and do what they wanted without having to pay or be potentially censored.
People want to be able to network with one another and share their works without being monitored, coerced, endlessly advertised to, shuffled off the map by the big boys, etc. Youtube seems very bare bones, kinda like the google search engine. There doesn't seem to be endless layers of corporate cruft mucking up the whole experience.
Corporations always try to mimic whatever becomes popular, but what's hilarious is like with blogging, it's just not the same when a corporation does it. That's because their aim is to make money, not provide a fun user experience. With their "blogs", they're not trying to put forth personal viewpoints or look to get the real truth out, they're just there to try and shuffle out the real bloggers who have been making mince meat of all the corporate press propaganda we've been deluged with lately. They only see dollars signs, and miss the boat every time.
What is appealing about things like youtube is you get to see backyard behind-the-scenes stuff that corporately backed entertainment would never dare to venture towards. You can find endless people engaging in fist fights, teenagers taking their clothes off and gyrating for the camera..this is the kinda crap that people are tuning in to in droves.
No one wants MSN Youtube or Yahoo Youtube. They wanna see Uncle Bob hosting Beatdown Mania in his hicksville backyard! People wanna see a bunch of dumb aimless rednecks pummeling the poop out of one another. Corporate entertainment could never get away with stuff like that, because they'd have to answer to the sorry neanderthals people today call the Christian right.

Posted by: Spicoli's Avenger   Posted on: 03/30/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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