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YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously)
teh31337one writes "YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world's largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless, incredibly annoying sound that sounds vaguely like a swarm of insects. Or, for anyone who has been watching the World Cup, like the dreaded vuvuzela — an instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games. South Africa is, of course, the host country for this year's World Cup, and fans watching the games have been subjected to the vuvuzela's mindless drone for hours on end. The noise is so annoying that television networks have taken measures to filter it out, and guides have popped up showing viewers how to block it from their TV sets and computers. I'm not seeing the button show up on all videos, but it is definitely appearing on some clips that aren't soccer-related."
This. It isn't just the damn horn. It is their attitude that goes with it.
In the early days all the news reports were quoting officials saying "We haven't heard any complaints, everyone loves it!" in the later days they've been quoting people saying "If we came to your place and told you not to do cultural thing X how would you feel?"
So they've gone from acting oblivious, to clueless assholedness. There is a big difference between some of the cultural things other countries might do and this annoying thing. If my cultural activity of choice was annoying people around the world 24/7 to the degree this is, I'd want someone to come along and tell me to fuck off.
oh btw south africa, fuck off.
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