Generation Zero

 

Emma hates YouTube's login changes and rants about it, monetizes videos and gets tax-free cash from them anyway.

   I had a little downtime for a change to let my muse rest from my recent guitar-work and decided to browse Google News when I came upon an article about how some girly named Emma Blackery is upset about a new YouTube format change.  I haven't been on YouTube in weeks so I thought I'd check on it.  The girl (seemingly) plays a ukulele (though I think it's restrung backwards E A D G instead of G D A E as a cheater's method) and sings about how she's ticked-off YouTube (owned by Google since 2006) is requiring a Google+ account to make comments on videos.  She proceeds to cuss and spit venom over it like a dirty pirate hooker might if one crushed her thumb under great duress within a giant clam at 40 fathoms.


I'm AquaMan!  That's right, BITCH!

  A bit horrified, I commented that YouTube was a free service and if the rules might dictate a change such that Google got rid of the YouTube account system and simply made it a product of Google+ it's no big whoop as since a good portion of cellphone users have Android OS which automatically creates a Google+ account anyway.  If she didn't like it, she could make her own video-system, charge nothing for it as Google does, then enjoy complaining people cussing her out.



Save me, Lancelot!  Come to my aid, my mindless, juvenile follower-heroes who have no soul!

  I was suddenly bludgeoned by dozens of posts defending her, saying that the free service is being shoved down her throat, that despite my comment that Google+ was the #2 social network it just was terrible as all out, and that she certainly was justified in her telling YouTube and Google off.  Well, in America, you're free to do so, though I think she was British (judging by her teeth), so she doesn't have the right to Freedom of Speech, but that's besides the point.  Most of the defending posts were idiotic and mono-syllabic, though one was more eloquent, mentioning it was her right to behave as such.  I agreed to this, but that she was an anti-Bard, creating malice and vulgarities, causing no good.  Indeed, I felt her song only created anger and drew up a mob of discontent and riotous feelings, henceforth, an "anti-Bard".  One could argue she was a Chaotic-Evil Bard as well.  In either case, I didn't like the negative she was spitting out, though she nicely stayed in-key for the most part, and I couldn't completely tell if she was faking the ukulele playing or not.  It sounded a bit too rich for nylon strings, and the chords didn't seem right, but whatever.  I won't post it because she swears a lot.

  People argued on my comment of malice here: "Malice? Please. Its an opinion and clearly most people agree. How does it feel to be the 1%?"  I thought a lot about this.  I am guessing he's referencing the "Occupy Wall Street" protest from two years ago, or it's a slightly clever mentioning that 99% of viewers agree with her profanity, though the like/dislike bar didn't agree there, it's more like 15% at the time, but whatever.  One commenter noted that only those over 30 were okay with the change, and those under 30 hated it.  He said this proudly, but to me that indicates those lacking wisdom are against a G+/YT merging.

Emma says: "Am I pretty enough for you now, mommy?  I made a shitty song on YouTube so now I'm meaningful!"

  All this got me to think, and later I checked and a few took my side and championed the cause, which is nice I wasn't 1% after all, and I defended my use of the word "malice" even though most people did indeed agree.  I spent two days thinking about the responses.  I am a Virgo, after all.

  It worries me on a few levels; not for my safety or anything like that, but the condition of Society as a whole.  Firstly, it seems there's a ton of folks doing nothing all day except commenting on YouTube.  Doing some research, a lot of it seems to be a Troll-ish outlet of negativity.  People vomit comments of "Meh!" and "You stink!" (or far, far worse) to honest musicians brave enough to put forth a vid.  People also seem angry that free stuff has conditions like little children.  Granted, little children are on YouTube, and for them, I blame the parenting, but for those over say, 16, I think they need to get on some medication.  I did a little research on Emma and indeed, she is British and has a decent internet presence of 400k subscribers (better than my 19 followers for certain) and is.. 21 years old.  Ah, the heart of it!  Twenty freaking.. one.

  Since I'm 43, I really can't take any advise from someone who when I was 34, they were age 2.  There's not a lot of wisdom gained by age 2, and the child in-question behaved just like a little, bratty, 2-year-old.  I find a lot of 20-somethings are that way.  I suspect it has a lot to do with parents telling their kids they were "special" and, well, they were not.  These folks think the best movies of all time were within the last 5 years and that The Matrix was a classic.  Have you seen it recently?  It's laughable.  Did NOT survive the test of time, kids.  Also, Disney has done far better films than since The Lion King.  I preferred Scar's opinion of eating dead animals anyway, thereby no one got hurt.  Mustafa lead a reign of terror (hence the worried, Nazi-esque praise of the newborn.. "Remember me?  I.. I was at your birth ceremony!  Please don't devour me and my children!"  Always two ways to look at it, kids.  As for Disney animated films, there's about 30 before that, and all were better (except Footloose and Fancy Free.. I never got that one)..  The biggest concern is that YouTube requires a different user account and that's a big deal for them, compared to say, the recent events for a Venezuelan where items like flour and cooking-oil are getting so hard to find, people are shooting children in the face for it.  Like lazy Roman emperors, Caesars of the Senate, all of them, demanding Caligula-like demands, "Bring me a donkey and have it defecate on a beautiful diva's head, yet I pay nothing for this!" (YouTube is free) is now vexed that they have to lift a finger and enter a username and password once (it's remembered for you permanently).  Amazing.  Just amazing.

  If you would, a little on my opinion on these "non-contributing product-sponges" voiced best by orator Louis CK:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk

 

 

  He makes a good point (if you clicked the link).  People aren't contributing much and demanding a lot.  I remember when I was 17 I expected the World owed me a career, etc. but I learned by 22 that this was not going to happen and I needed to get off my haunches and grasp onto reality a little.  I think a lot of these complaining kids have an easy outlet and it seems as if there's a lot of angry naysayers but honestly, the only people who comment angrily and pettily on YouTube are those who haven't reached that point yet, filled with the lies and bitterness of childhood.  Sorry, wittle kids, the Tooth Fairy isn't real, and neither is Santa Claus, and yeah, your job sucks so guess what?  Yep, you have two options, find another sucky job and stick with it and get good at it or stick with the one you got and then stick with it and get good at it.  If you think you can just go to college for some stupid, non-science degree, or an online degree and think you're going to get anywhere because you have the "piece of paper" I tell you it doesn't amount to anything compared to good, honest, hard, tenacious, work.  If you get a science degree then good for you, but you're going to have to go back to square one again and work.  In the meantime, those that did actually work for those 4 or 5 years are already above you in the chain and have that much more experience and your degree won't trump them.  I recommend maybe get an Associates' and call it a day, then get to freakin' WORK.  Stupid kids.  No one's gonna hand the world to you, and whatever tax-handout like a wittle baby you demand by voting is gonna be ultra-low-quality and not the idealistic, not have to work Nirvana you expected where you can dance around like a TJ Maxx commercial trying to find the perfect blue unless you suck B'Cawk on the side for extra money, that is if you can double-swallow your pride there and be an infant while I blast past you in my Corvette Grand Sport in Angry-Bitch mode.  Stupid.  Ugh.  Horrible.  Idiots!  Wake up and get your hands dirty and show initiative and drive and make your way to manager, respected by the store you're in as the janitor ground-up talent that you could be.  It's not too late.  Also, go watch Thor 2, it was pretty darn good.  Also I'm always right, Emma.  You're just vulgar, childish and stupid.  I'm awesome.  Bye!

 

 

Girl realizing suddenly I was right all along and Emma Blackery is a fucking cunt!
Freedom of Speech used here, bitch.  I'm American and we wasted you in 1776 and now just again in 2013.