Remember Vine, that annoying as hell 6 second video sharing service that was big in the early-mid 2010’s, that service that Twitter bought, kept around for a while then killed off in 2016? The one that spawned the “careers” of many an annoying and, in some cases, controversial to be internet celebrities (I’m looking at …
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Blocked For A Reason – 2020 Edition
Back in early 2016 I wrote an article titled “Blocked for a Reason.” The article covered the subject of blocking people on social media – in simple form, the reason behind such (at least for me) and what it actually means when that event happens. I thought it would be good, since it’s been nearly …
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Why In Depth Discussion Or Debate Is Nearly Impossible On Twitter
I don’t care what you want to call it — discussion, debate, discourse, arguing, whatever it is — any kind of “deep” discussion on Twitter between two parties is, in practice, virtually impossible. This is for two key reasons — the nature of the site itself, and the culture surrounding its used. These two aspects …
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The Great YouTube \ COPPA Panic
EDIT: 11/25/2019 – This entire situation is, apparently, far worse than I originally thought –See this follow up: https://www.xadara.com/2019/11/i-think-i-misjudged-the-youtube-coppa-situation/ A couple of weeks ago, right on the heels of the paranoia surrounding fear that YouTube was going to terminate accounts that aren’t profitable (something many people still think is the case) came another thing for …
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No, YouTube Is Not Terminating Your Account If It Isn’t Profitable
In the latest case of “people who can’t even begin to read legalese properly,” quite a bit of a stink was made over a phrase in the most recent YouTube Terms of Service update, which is effective on December 10th 2019. The text in question reads as follows: YouTube may terminate your access, or your …
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Copyright Honestly Isn’t That Hard Of A Concept To Understand
Ah, Copyright, something that most everyone in the internet age is at the very least aware of thanks to the ease of copying media in the digital age and the ubiquity of “issues” people have tended to have, primarily on YouTube, involving the concept. The strange thing is that for often the subject comes up …
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The Only Reaction Image I Will Ever Really Need
I was watching an old episode of Oddity Archive the other day and while it was based on a rather grim topic (nuclear disaster preparedness in the UK) an image was shown in the episode for a brief moment. It’s a rather funny image that I think speaks for itself – two men are carrying …
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Reddit And Computer Elitism (Or, How Not To Actually Answer A Question) – Part 1
My buddy Prince Watercress had a bit of an issue a few nights ago. After updating his PC to Windows 10 build 1903 his system would start up in the middle of the night which, as you could imagine, was a bit of an annoyance to him. Now, Watercress decided to ask on Reddit, namely …
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YouTube Is Still Showing Me Channels I’ve Unsubscribed From In My Feed – A Follow Up
Back in July of 2018 I wrote an article (YouTube Is *Still* Showing Me Channels I’ve Unsubscribed From In My Subscription Feed) discussing YouTube showing channels I’ve unsubscribed to in my subscription feed – a problem that many seem to have. I can presume others are having this issue, anyway, for one simple reason: the …
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Yes, Your Old MySpace Account Still Exists, Emo Pictures And All
Remember MySpace? The social network that was dominant before Facebook? They made news last month due to (somehow) losing all the music ever uploaded to the site from 2003 to 2015, apparently during a routine server migration. Yep, all that data just gone, no proper backups, no real recovery or redundancy plan, no nothing. Yeah, …
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An Update On The GameAnyone Situation
A few days ago I shared the strange discovery my friend Prince Watercress made in that a game walkthrough / let’s play sharing site known as “GameAnyone” apparently has a tactic of making “fake” accounts for various content creators, auto publishing content they create or share to the platform without that content creators consent. Note: …
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About YouTube Removing Automatic Post Sharing…
Another thing of note in YouTube’s never ending “let’s try things, then change those things, then remove those things a few years later” pattern over the past decade is the removal of automatic post sharing. Strictly in this case sharing to Twitter and Google+ (which quite honestly I think were the only two options left) …
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YouTube Is Back Up. That Only Took A Solid Hour And In That Time The Internet Had A Field Day!
After well over an hour of being down effectively globally, YouTube is back up and running as… er, well… as ever. While I’ve not yet seen any info on what the cause of the issue was, it does look like it was resolved, so we can all go back to watching whatever absurd junk we …
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Hey Google, Ya Mind Not Letting YouTube Go Down For Damn Near Everyone?
It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the evening central time and YouTube has decided to go down. Well, not completely, you …
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The Google Plus Data Leak – An Incredible Failure
Yesterday news broke of a flaw in the Google Plus API which from 2015 till recently in 2018 had the potential to expose otherwise private user data, something which would be bad enough on its own if it wasn’t for the fact that when Google became aware of this problem, but Google also apparently felt …
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