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5 Fun Things I Found This Week on YouTube – #2
It seems that the last week has gone by amazingly quickly. Something I’m not, incidentally, going to complain too much about since, with a young lad, I’m one week down in the Summer holidays with five more to go! – As often is the case though, when you have 5…
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5 Funs Things I Found This Week On Youtube – #1
If you’re anything like me, then the time between when you should go to bed and when you’re up very much past your bedtime is often submitted to the beast that is the ‘YouTube Blackhole’. – Oh yes, YouTube can throw up some very interesting rabbit holes if you get…
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YouTube Update to Crack Down on Spam Comments & Account Impersonators
For several years now, YouTube has had a pretty big problem when it has come to spam. No, I’m not necessarily talking about misleading videos, but more the fact that for many channels (both big and small), comment sections can sometimes get absolutely flooded by ‘people’ making posts you know…
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China Lists Around 100 Things Their Citizens Can’t Make Online Videos About!
I have to admit that I sometimes get worried when I write about China. Oh, it’s not over any kind of paranoid fear that one day I might get a knock at the door that may well be my last. It’s more to do with the fact that I might…
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YouTube Irony as Video Explaining Removal of the Dislike Counter Gets 31K Dislikes!
For more than a year now, YouTube has clearly been fighting something of a moral battle in terms of the future of its ‘dislike’ button. As many of you are probably aware, YouTube currently gives you the option to like or dislike a video, And, based upon this, the idea…
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YouTube Tests a Cheaper ‘Ads Off Only’ Alternative to Premium
I have a theory that no matter how huge some black holes in space must be, none of them will ever come anything close to the one where I really should be thinking about going to sleep, but I think to myself, ‘ah, go on then YouTube, one more video’.…
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YouTube Channel Uses Presidents for DeepFake Videos
Undoubtedly, ‘deepfake‘ videos represent quite a concern surrounding their potential to effectively represent people saying things they never actually did. For example, only a few weeks ago a ‘deepfake’ video was released showing President Nixon’s speech had the Apollo 11 moonlanding ended in disaster. Let’s be honest though, when applied…
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Disney Launches ‘Magic Moments’ for Families in Self-Isolation
If you have kids, then the chances are that following concerns surround COVID-19, you’ve probably got them at home at the moment. As such, you’re probably either pulling your hair out or, at the very least, are running out of solid means of entertainment. Well, the good news is, Disney…
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Google Launches its Highly Informative COVID-19 Website
With current concerns surrounding the Coronavirus (or COVID-19 if you prefer) we’ve already seen a number of websites pop-up looking to offer us some useful information about it. While it may have taken them some time to get their online ducks in a row, however, Google has just launched theirs…
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Overwatch 2, Diablo IV & WoW Shadowlands Feature at Blizzcon
Blizzcon 2019 is currently underway and given the widely negative reception they received last year, many believed that Blizzard was going to come out swinging big time this year! Blizzcon 2019 So, one day in, how are they doing? Well, quite frankly, they haven’t disappointed. In what may represent the…
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Sega Releases Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Trailers
Tokyo 2020 Olympics I must admit that I have always found video games based on the Olympic Games to be guilty pleasures of mine. Admittedly, I perhaps preferred the straight-up old days of button mashing leading to gold medals, but even then with an Olympics due next year and Sega…
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YouTube is Finally To Add New ‘Recommended’ Video Settings
YouTube Recommended Videos Like many of you reading this, I can quite happily make several hours disappear by simply seeing what rabbit holes YouTube can take me down. If I do, however, have one major grumble about the video hosting platform (other than the ridiculous manner in which they have…
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YouTube Deletes Videos After Disturbing Users Algorithm Abuse
YouTube Deleting Videos Due To Algorithm Quirk The YouTube algorithm has certainly been a subject of hot contention in the last few years. The system, which effectively determines what videos appear in your recommended or ‘play next’ list can, on many occasions, lead you down to very strange paths on…
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Researchers Blame YouTube For Flat Earth Theorists
YouTube To Blame For Flat Earth Theorists Before I continue, just in case you haven’t come across the Flat Earth theory to date, let me give you a brief rundown as to what it is. Put simply, some people appear to be entirely convinced that despite all evidence to the…
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PewDiePie’s YouTube Rewind is Now Most Liked Non-Music Vid
2018 YouTube Rewind: Look Back in Anger YouTube released their annual Rewind video last month and it quickly rose to the top of the charts. The most Disliked Video chart that is. Although it has 158 million views in total, it 15 million dislikes vs 2.4 million likes. Critics cite…
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