My Journey to “That Weird Part of YouTube”
According
to the accredited Urban Dictionary, The weird part of YouTube is
“typically an area full of video irrelevant to what you were originally
watching.” Usually, these blotches of video “would normally go untouched, but
become popular when a significant amount of people follow” a chain of somewhat
“related videos” into the area deemed “the weird part of YouTube.”
Today, I
am going to take a trip down the yellow tube road into the land called, “Weird
Part of YouTube” until I reach my destination with one of the top comments
exclaiming how they unintentionally got to the weird part of YouTube. I start
my journey on my YouTube home screen. I recently watched some boxing videos of
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, so one of my recommended videos is titled,
“Mayweather Jr. vs. Mayweather Sr. 24/7”. I click.
This
video shows Mayweather Jr. and Mayweather Sr. in a verbal bout, which exhibits
their unkindled relationship. Fortunately, it’s edited. Now, on the right side
of the YouTube screen are suggested videos- seemingly related to the current
one. On this particular Mayweather video, one of the more interesting suggested
video links is titled, “When victims fight back.” Let’s watch.
In the
middle of watching this video, I get the point, so I start scrolling along the
right side of the suggested videos, and I see one that catches my eye-
“douchebag bully bag gets taught a lesson”. That was fun.
Now, after
this video, my procrastination instinct kicks in, and I start clicking and
clicking. For the next video, I go to “Telling off a tailgater”, then “McDonalds refuses food or refund, police arrive, forces McD's
to give food”, to “Cop Tricked Into Thinking Prison Escapee is a Jogger”,
following “I Didn't Know She Was 16 (The Steve Wilkos Show)”, to “Quiet
Kid Learns to Cope in Prison”, to “Pyscho Inmate on a Come Down”, and, finally
to “Extraordinary People The Girl With A New Face part 1”.
On this last video, I finally see one of the top comments read, “I went from
Funny Videos to this! WTF?” Close enough.
So, there
it is. I went from “Mayweather Jr. vs. Mayweather Sr. 24/7” to “Extraordinary People The Girl With A New Face part 1.” Although
others have made their inadvertent journey to the “Weird Part of YouTube” via
less videos, and in a shorter amount of time, my journey was undoubtedly
no-less weird.
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