Tuesday 2 December 2008

Youtube (General Overview)

Youtube is a kind of 'website' that 'hosts' 'video' clips that 'people' 'enjoy watching'. Many of the clips hosted on Youtube are hilarious 'home videos' made by people without lives.

Youtube also acts as a kind of barometer for society's ills. One of the most popular clips on Youtube is a sixty second piece of video showing a dog pushing its penis into another dog before throwing up onto its back. "Dog fucks another dog and then pukes" has so far been viewed by four hundred million people. Many of these people watched the video once and then, after it had finished, performed a series of clicks in order to watch it again. After watching it again they performed several more clicks and then typed some words in order to "email the link" to their "friends" so that their "friends" could also watch one dog fuck another dog and then puke onto its back.


One day these people will die and will have to account for their lives and they will be asked, "what did you do with this extraordinary gift of life that was granted you?" and they will have to explain with a straight face that they spent their time watching footage of a dog fucking another dog and then puking onto its back. They will then have to explain that after the footage had finished they performed a series of clicks in order to watch it again and after this performed a further series of clicks and typed some words in order to "email the link" to their friends. The guy whose job it is to hear people account for their lives won't really understand what he is being told and probably his first thought will be that he is having the piss taken out of him and he'll probably look around grinning sheepishly and saying "alright, where's the camera?" thinking that this is some sort of setup by Jeremy Beadle (still playing pranks even in the afterlife) but then someone is going to have sit him down and to explain to him that no, this is not a piss-take, this is real, this is actually how these people chose to spend their lives and this guy is not going to be able to comprehend this and it's just going to hit him all at once, the fucking tragic nature of what human beings have become and he'll probably kill himself and that's what youtube has done for the world.

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