The Dark Side of Youtube

Youtube has become one of those sites that this generation cannot seem to dissociate itself from. In a sense, Youtube is the video equivalent of Facebook (another of this era's dependencies). You can post things, comment upon them and impersonally 'like' it. As simple and straightforward it seems, there's always some fairly strange activities that always go on.

It's also home to much banter and pointless, idiotic arguments. People seem to believe that it's a perfect podium for their opinions. There's nothing wrong with posting your opinions yet there's always a point where it needs to stop.

However, this isn't a rant against vapid Youtube users (there's time for that in another post) but more of a commentary on some of the strange occurrences on Youtube. I'm talking of course of the dark side of Youtube.

It's something that no person wishes to unearth yet it always seems inevitable. One moment you're peacefully watching a video a bear waving to some people or contemplating the idiocies of the people on Epic fail and then it happens. Out of nowhere you've found either watching some disturbing psychedelic cartoons from the 70s or watching a Japanese Ronald McDonald tripping out to some intense dance music. Even though I've posted links to these videos, I wouldn't recommend watching them, especially if you're minutes away from your LSD trip.

How it happens? I have no idea. The links between what you set out to watch and what you end 'discovering' are a mystery but there's always a few bridges between them. It's always videos entitled "Disney's most racists moments" that entice your curiosity, from there onwards it's an inevitable downfall into madness. What's worrying though is whether people watch these videos because they've somehow ended up there or actually get some kind of twisted pleasure out of them. Worst though is the people who actually load them. 

However, from what the internet tells me it usually people like this fine young gentleman here who are usually the culprits.