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Eminem and Rihanna Video, Love The Way You Lie, Breaks Youtube Record

Applehead_Ale said:
I'm starting to doubt about this new youtube records... now any new video break a record in youtube, is it possible that records company have deals with YT and manipulate the views? I know it sounds crazy but it wouldn't surprise me.
EDIT: now I read my comment, yes it sounds really crazy and complicated.
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I know it sounds crazy but really I wouldn't be surprised.
Look how many promo's about artists talk about their Youtube hits now?
It's a win-win situation for the artists and the Youtube site.
Artists look on top of the world (which will get the people who just buy what's "popular" to go check it out) and Youtube get's more attention because people talk about the views.
Of course there's no concrete proof about it all..(yet ;))

Edit: I'm not saying that a popular song on the radio isn't able to get many views there though.
 
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xrisx said:
I know it sounds crazy but really I wouldn't be surprised.
Look how many promo's about artists talk about their Youtube hits now?
It's a win-win situation for the artists and the Youtube site.
Artists look on top of the world (which will get the people who just buy what's "popular" to go check it out) and Youtube get's more attention because people talk about the views.
Of course there's no concrete proof about it all..(yet ;))

Edit: I'm not saying that a popular song on the radio isn't able to get many views there though.
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I wouldn't be surprised either, 6.6 million views in 24 hours sounds abit too much for me
 


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Grand Master S said:
I wasn't comparing MJ to any other artist though I was comparing the reactions of fans on this board :).

And btw, the amount of times a video is watched on YouTube is a sign of how popular the video is in a time when YouTube is the most popular video site on the Internet. Obviously every single view isn't by a different person but it's still significant to the popularity of the song/music video/artist, sort of like record sales are significant to the popularity of the album/song/artist. Once again I'm sure this would be recognized if it was a new MJ video that broke a YouTube record. This is more or less a definition of a "hater." It's not that you dislike an artist, because everyone has artists/celebrities that they dislike, but more so that you're underscoring something they did simply because you don't like them, and I'm guessing that you would have an entirely different take on the value of something like this if (yet again) it was someone who you actually are a fan of.

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I'm sorry to jump in on your argument but I disagree with the bolded part. The amount of views can be a sign of popularity, but I would certainly take the like/dislike rate into account as well. For example, if we take the most watched video on YouTube (which is Justin Bieber's Baby with over 300 million views) and look at the like/dislike rate, it shows that the amount of dislikes (213.000+) is almost equal to the amount of likes (268.000+) which means that almost half the views come from haters. And if you look at the comments section, the vast majority of posts is negative and people freely admit to only clicking on this clip to post crap. In short: JB is not only the most watched, but also the most disliked artist on YouTube. But I agree that YT views shouldn't be completely dismissed as irrelevant, they are an indication of what people are interested in, whether positively or negatively. And even when the likes greatly outnumber the dislikes, YT views can be so easily manipulated that I still take them with a grain of salt.

P.S.: I don't wanna sound like an idiot, but what do they mean with: 'I guess that’s why they call it window pain'? :blush:
 
^ Aforementioned haters wouldn't care though if it wasn't something that was popular. Chances are if a music video or anything else is getting that much attention, it is extremely popular, which also often means that it's extremely disliked at the same time (IE Twilight). I for one have clicked on a Justin Bieber video just to marvel at how retarded it is as well, but I wouldn't have done it if he wasn't "big" at the time.

And I'm not sure what it means. It's some really old saying.
 
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