Can you believe it’s been a year since Tay Zonday’s Chocolate Rain hit YouTube? Thanks to its Creative Commons licensing, the thing’s picked up a truckload of remixes since. Twenty million views and an ad tie-up later, Tay’s now selling some of those remixes in the album Chocolate Rain: Benefit Power.
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Since YouTube just made Rickrolling mainstream, linking to the original version of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up has just become too common. Distinguish yourself above other Rickrollers and impress the geek babes in your life by linking to the classiest, sexiest version on YouTube: the 2005 live performance, complete with sexy violinists and […]
Now you can get Rickrolled by Rick himself. After the phenomenal six-million-view success of YouTube’s April Fools prank featuring his 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley’s old music videos now appear on his official YouTube channel.
It’s a revenue-sharing partner account, so if you’re going to Rickroll someone, you can thank Astley […]
April 1, 2008 is not the best day to hit the YouTube Featured Videos list. You may be familiar with Rickrolling, the practice of posting a deceptive link that leads to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. This April Fools’ Day, YouTube Rickrolls everyone as Featured Videos links all […]
See, this is why YouTube needs better analytics. The current system just leaves so much room for uncertainty. A system where success and failure are dictated by views should not leave room for uncertainty about views.
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By now, you probably know about Filipino oddball Renaldo Lapuz singing his original ditty We’re Brothers Forever for Simon Cowell at his American Idol audition. The brotherhood continues as Renaldo holds a remix contest.
Keep making these wonderful remixes and sending them to us! We will post all the finalists on the website and let the […]
Viacom is infamous for its indiscriminate YouTube takedowns, but this is just bullshit. YouTube comedian Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams wrote a song called Make Poop that just got taken down by Viacom. Yes, you read that right — Viacom claims a song about shit.
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In case you think online video stars can’t get chicks, watch Tay Zonday get crunk with the ladies in Cherry Chocolate Rain, a Chocolate Rain parody sponsored by Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper. Dig the Drama Prairie Dog cameo.
This is the Web, and it’s gonna murder your TV. Right on, Tay.
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Apparently, an online video star’s offline audiences are filled with a mix of excitement and confusion. Gabriel Cheifetz follows Tay Zonday (of Chocolate Rain fame) to his first major live performance.
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Prince is such a fruity copyright-trolling wimp, even a baby could beat him. Eighteen-month-old Holden Lenz frolicked while part of the Purple Pussy’s hit Let’s Get Crazy played faintly in the background. Apparently, The Artist Formerly Known as Clueful does not want babies doing that on YouTube, so he had Universal Music send a DMCA […]
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Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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