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    YouTube eliminates billions of fake views from Sony/BMG/Universal/RCA

    http://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube...ews-black-hat/

    Sony/BMG was the second largest sufferer, dropping more than 850 million views in one day, bringing its total number of views to a mere 2.3 million.
    WHAT?! I'm about to hit 8 mil, mostly real.

    It's interesting that YouTube even took action. It looks very awkward, because their standard procedure is to ban accounts that get caught doing this. They obviously can't ban record labels because they produce the most revenue on YouTube by far.

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    Does that mean paying advertisers got hecka owned?

    Good

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    Does that mean paying advertisers got hecka owned?

    Good
    I very much doubt it. AFAIK, the main method of manipulating view counts was faking referrers and creating "mobile views", which don't serve ads. Even if their method was creating ad impressions, advertisers only pay for clickthroughs. So the record labels would have to be committing click fraud. If they were doing THAT, then we're talking about a pretty serious crime, defrauding advertisers for millions of dollars.

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    Damn! I thought for a minute that finally the world isn't as fucking retarded as I thought and Justin Bieber was signed to one of these labels to get them views but he's not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeerAndPoker View Post
    Damn! I thought for a minute that finally the world isn't as fucking retarded as I thought and Justin Bieber was signed to one of these labels to get them views but he's not.
    Someone say Bieber?

    Name:  justin-bieber-shirtless-jingle-ball-lead.jpg
Views: 3010
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    Name:  03-justin-bieber-shirtless.jpg
Views: 16725
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    NOTHING FAKE ABOUT THAT!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SrslySirius View Post
    http://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube...ews-black-hat/

    Sony/BMG was the second largest sufferer, dropping more than 850 million views in one day, bringing its total number of views to a mere 2.3 million.
    WHAT?! I'm about to hit 8 mil, mostly real.

    It's interesting that YouTube even took action. It looks very awkward, because their standard procedure is to ban accounts that get caught doing this. They obviously can't ban record labels because they produce the most revenue on YouTube by far.
    According to the video below SrslySirius, you hit 3.4 million views with "Nightmare on my Street" due to possible view bots in two days! So that's about half of your 8 million inflated views on YouTube. Also, let's not forget the QuadJacks debacle, where some of your videos were taken down by Marco and Zekday0.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JSTAT View Post
    According to the video below SrslySirius, you hit 3.4 million views
    Who cares what that guy thinks? Looks like he's sucked about 3.4 million cocks.


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    Also, let's not forget the QuadJacks debacle, where some of your your videos were taken down by Marco and Zekday0.
    Lol fuck QuadJacks, Marco, and Zekday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JSTAT View Post
    According to the video below SrslySirius, you hit 3.4 million views with "Nightmare on my Street" due to possible view bots in two days!. So that's about half of your 8 million inflated views on YouTube. Also, let's not forget the QuadJacks debacle, where some of your your videos were taken down by Marco and Zekday0.

    Are you trying to correct me, or just insult me? I don't see how the QuadJacks incident is relevant at all, unless you're saying that the views for those videos have been unaccounted for. That is true, as those videos did get about 800,000 views in total.

    The 3.4 million figure isn't quite accurate (it's smaller), but even if it were, that is still less than half. Just as I said earlier. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

    EDIT: Just watched that video (lol 3.4 million cocks), and he's referring to the total view count at the time, which isn't 100% fake. The video ultimately got 4.3 million views, a large chunk of which were legit.
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    Some videos are so fake ...


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    All of my 71 views are 100% legit...

    (although, 67 of them are from me)



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    Quote Originally Posted by devidee View Post
    All of my 71 views are 100% legit...

    (although, 67 of them are from me)


    I started to tear up a bit watching that video. Then I got an erection. I can't explain it.
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    Apparently this story has been falsely reported.

    http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...LZ3ftLGQrMZ.99

    Looks like it was assumed that the views were faked because of the sudden drop in views, and the fact that YouTube routinely "despams" view counts. In this case, it seems that YouTube changed the counts for these channels because a ton of videos had been gradually migrated from the record label channels over to Vevo channels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Dad View Post
    Some videos are so fake ...

    Jets give YouTube Kicker a Tryout

    http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articl...ryout/12489592

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    You Guys missed the most important story on the Daily Dot page -- left side

    Bitcoin Strippers Tell All
    "It helps you feel less degraded. You don't know who it is viewing you. You can just imagine it's *not* some creepy guy in his basement."

    http://www.dailydot.com/society/girl...ers-interview/

    Hopefully Micon and Martha can make it happen next year. Babes shaking it between empty scotch bottles, e-cig cartridges and cans of baby formula going to make Micon a grip in 13.


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    Speaking of YouTube videos with an undeserved number of views, how the fuck does this one have 153 million?



    Actually it used to have 200 million, so I guess YouTube adjusted it down.

    But still.

    At the time I found this, I tried watching this girl's other videos, and they were awful. They were basically all the same obnoxious young Texas girl attempting to teach you about sex, despite having a really annoying voice and condescending attitude. You could also tell she had no clue what she was talking about.

    I guess wearing long, rainbow socks gets you 153 million views. You did it wrong, Srsly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Speaking of YouTube videos with an undeserved number of views, how the fuck does this one have 153 million?



    Actually it used to have 200 million, so I guess YouTube adjusted it down.

    But still.

    At the time I found this, I tried watching this girl's other videos, and they were awful. They were basically all the same obnoxious young Texas girl attempting to teach you about sex, despite having a really annoying voice and condescending attitude. You could also tell she had no clue what she was talking about.

    I guess wearing long, rainbow socks gets you 153 million views. You did it wrong, Srsly.
    This tells you all that you need to know:

    Public statistics have been disabled.
    The only logical reason to disable statistics is to hide the fact that you got a disproportionate number of mobile or Facebook views. The number of likes/dislikes is also very low compared to the views, especially for her other obviously botted video with 82 million.

    She now has over 100,000 subscribers, which isn't much compared to the YouTube bigshots, but is certainly enough to make a decent income if she were to consistently post videos. I've heard that a lot of the juggernauts of YouTube used methods like this as a springboard. NOMS is the only video I ever botted, because I was afraid of getting my account shitcanned, but maybe I was wrong about that. YouTube thus far hasn't been super vigilant about punishing people for doing this. I'm still not going to take my chances, but if I could change one thing, I would have picked a much better video. When done correctly it can really pay off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SrslySirius View Post
    This tells you all that you need to know:

    Public statistics have been disabled.
    The only logical reason to disable statistics is to hide the fact that you got a disproportionate number of mobile or Facebook views. The number of likes/dislikes is also very low compared to the views, especially for her other obviously botted video with 82 million.

    She now has over 100,000 subscribers, which isn't much compared to the YouTube bigshots, but is certainly enough to make a decent income if she were to consistently post videos. I've heard that a lot of the juggernauts of YouTube used methods like this as a springboard. NOMS is the only video I ever botted, because I was afraid of getting my account shitcanned, but maybe I was wrong about that. YouTube thus far hasn't been super vigilant about punishing people for doing this. I'm still not going to take my chances, but if I could change one thing, I would have picked a much better video. When done correctly it can really pay off.
    Can I get a copy of NOMS emailed to me for my personal use?

    No bullshit, I was the only person who thought that song was top top

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    Quote Originally Posted by OSA View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by BeerAndPoker View Post
    Damn! I thought for a minute that finally the world isn't as fucking retarded as I thought and Justin Bieber was signed to one of these labels to get them views but he's not.
    Someone say Bieber?

    Name:  justin-bieber-shirtless-jingle-ball-lead.jpg
Views: 3010
Size:  30.6 KB

    Name:  03-justin-bieber-shirtless.jpg
Views: 16725
Size:  65.8 KB

    NOTHING FAKE ABOUT THAT!
    no homo here, but where the fuck is his jock aka manhood aka cock ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by devidee View Post
    All of my 71 views are 100% legit...

    (although, 67 of them are from me)



    I am unfamiliar with that board, but if you need someone to keep those Michigan bitches in line, just let me know. I don't have your gift for acerbic one liners filled with gold, but I have my own style of degradation towards the faggots up north. SonofDevidee screen name can be created and do work while you honor your ban. Why that date? Is Dymonte an early?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yiddishdonk View Post
    no homo here, but where the fuck is his jock aka manhood aka cock ...
    TRUMP 2024!

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    Just non-stop unrelenting LGBT propaganda being shoved down our throats.

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