The outrage is not that this is supposed to be popular. What gets people pissed is that not only this video was in the "suggested" video pile of EVERY user while at the same time not fitting into the viewing habits of what seems to be the majority of users.
If you are using a social media platform or product, you'd expect this platform or product to somehow match your expectations. What people learned in this Review video is that YT doesn't match their expectations AT ALL.
And this is exactly why the rewind became the most loathed video in YT-history: It's everything YT-viewers do NOT want, why we cut the cord and went from cable TV to the internet.
What this "Rewind" was is an endorsement of home-order-television shows mixed with very bad reality soaps. Actually, not even reality soaps. It's mostly random people doing random weird shit. Even cable didn't sink that low (yet), but here we are.
And if we wanted this kind of lowbrow "entertainment", we'd have stayed with cable.
I agree. Still, at least I know PewDiePie (ok, I know of him, never seen any of his videos), but who the fuck are the people in the Rewind video? I actually had to look them up, and now I sit here and want my time back because they're even MORE uninteresting than PewDiePie could ever be.
Take a step back and find out just why people downvoted it. There's got to be a reason. And no, it's not that "all the alt-rights that felt slighted" did it. Sorry, no. I'm far from alt-right. Even though I still don't get what's "alt" about it, unless you're German (where "alt" means "old") this doesn't make sense, it's the same old assholes they always were, there's nothing alt about it. Yes, they downvoted it too, maybe for that reason, but you think that's all? I doubt it. I'm pretty sure with this video, they managed to piss off the left too. Maybe even more than it could piss off the right.
Take a look at what is celebrated in this "rewind": Blatant fucking consumerism. The "celebrities" in this video were (and I know this now that I spent quite a bit of time trying hard to figure out who these bozos actually are) vloggers that basically do nothing but peddle some wares they get paid to endorse, "beauty tip" channels that either promote some goods they get paid to promote, promote their own line of good or both and people who do crazy shit like sitting in a bathtub of sugary breakfast hazelnut cream (sponsored by Nutella) or do otherwise completely useless, random and weird shit that is probably interesting if you're 10-13 years old and not too interested in anything that could potentially actually show or teach you something. Add some random endorsement of a game that apparently EVERYONE but me plays and you're basically done with the whole review video.
In other words: YouTube apparently assumes that its average viewer is some teenager with too much time and not enough brain to identify blatant advertising, mistake it as content and mistake the overpaid "celebs" that peddle that crap as "friends".
And guess what: People who don't fall into this demographic (read: About 11 millions so far) get pissed at this.
Considering the success of America's "War on...", we should start a war on intelligence. We sure need more, and all the various "wars on" something have accomplished is that today we have actually more of the thing that we wage war on.
So what's gonna be left in the Laptop market is Dell, HP and Apple? In other words, you won't be able to buy a laptop anymore that works, isn't loaded with crapware to the brim or doesn't costs a fortune? Or has all three awesome qualities?
Sorry, I cannot second that. I, too, have an Asus notebook. It's now about 3 years old and still running very well, no signs of ever going to fail. I did swap the (secondary) HD for an SSD and it went without a problem. Open tray, pluck old one out, stuff new one in, boot up.
I do also know Lenovo notebooks and to be honest, I fail to see the huge difference in convenience. What I do see, though, is a difference in price and amount of crapware...
You don't wish that on your worst enemy. You know what happens to you when a CEO makes a mistake? Yes. YOU get fired.
Now imagine two CEOs that don't like each other where one considers everything the other one does or makes others do a mistake. No matter what you're told to do, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
There was also life on Earth during the Late Bombardment period. And boy, you better believe it was warmer than today! With MUCH higher CO2 and MUCH lower (read: zero) Oxygen levels.
Except that it didn't. From what we can tell today, it was a period of non-homogeneous slight variations in temperature. Today Britain, tomorrow Black Sea. The reason for which is still mostly a mystery, but what can be said is that whatever caused it was mostly concentrated in the northern hemisphere, and here in Eurasia.
Yes, there's a difference. But more and more people are unable to actually understand the difference.
It's funny, though, that it's usually the same people who loathe regulatory bodies are also the ones that get conned by such con artists who exist exactly because we eliminate those very regulatory bodies that would have prevented these things from happening. And then they turn around and declare that everyone's out to get them, everyone's swindling them out of their money and that EVERYTHING is a scam. Usually only to turn around and buy a book from some snakeoil peddler hawking some conspiracy bullshit.
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Umm... so TV is for old people, YT-stars are watched by kids without any income, what the fuck do people in their 20s to 50s do?
Wait, right, we're working...
I am pretty sure you can't say that, "whitewashing" is certainly racist or something these days.
May I suggest the term "cleaning with a biodegradable, fairly-traded detergent"?
The outrage is not that this is supposed to be popular. What gets people pissed is that not only this video was in the "suggested" video pile of EVERY user while at the same time not fitting into the viewing habits of what seems to be the majority of users.
If you are using a social media platform or product, you'd expect this platform or product to somehow match your expectations. What people learned in this Review video is that YT doesn't match their expectations AT ALL.
And this is exactly why the rewind became the most loathed video in YT-history: It's everything YT-viewers do NOT want, why we cut the cord and went from cable TV to the internet.
What this "Rewind" was is an endorsement of home-order-television shows mixed with very bad reality soaps. Actually, not even reality soaps. It's mostly random people doing random weird shit. Even cable didn't sink that low (yet), but here we are.
And if we wanted this kind of lowbrow "entertainment", we'd have stayed with cable.
No, you basically got the reason of the insane amount of downvotes just fine.
I agree. Still, at least I know PewDiePie (ok, I know of him, never seen any of his videos), but who the fuck are the people in the Rewind video? I actually had to look them up, and now I sit here and want my time back because they're even MORE uninteresting than PewDiePie could ever be.
Take a step back and find out just why people downvoted it. There's got to be a reason. And no, it's not that "all the alt-rights that felt slighted" did it. Sorry, no. I'm far from alt-right. Even though I still don't get what's "alt" about it, unless you're German (where "alt" means "old") this doesn't make sense, it's the same old assholes they always were, there's nothing alt about it. Yes, they downvoted it too, maybe for that reason, but you think that's all? I doubt it. I'm pretty sure with this video, they managed to piss off the left too. Maybe even more than it could piss off the right.
Take a look at what is celebrated in this "rewind": Blatant fucking consumerism. The "celebrities" in this video were (and I know this now that I spent quite a bit of time trying hard to figure out who these bozos actually are) vloggers that basically do nothing but peddle some wares they get paid to endorse, "beauty tip" channels that either promote some goods they get paid to promote, promote their own line of good or both and people who do crazy shit like sitting in a bathtub of sugary breakfast hazelnut cream (sponsored by Nutella) or do otherwise completely useless, random and weird shit that is probably interesting if you're 10-13 years old and not too interested in anything that could potentially actually show or teach you something. Add some random endorsement of a game that apparently EVERYONE but me plays and you're basically done with the whole review video.
In other words: YouTube apparently assumes that its average viewer is some teenager with too much time and not enough brain to identify blatant advertising, mistake it as content and mistake the overpaid "celebs" that peddle that crap as "friends".
And guess what: People who don't fall into this demographic (read: About 11 millions so far) get pissed at this.
Considering the success of America's "War on ...", we should start a war on intelligence. We sure need more, and all the various "wars on" something have accomplished is that today we have actually more of the thing that we wage war on.
So ... in other words, it's just that Bing noticed this is what most people want to find when searching for Office 2019.
Yup, makes sense.
For all MS cares this is still better than Bing pointing to a page detailing how Libre/Open Office is superior.
Umm... it is?
The question is rather, why don't they eat their own dogfood?
Most importantly, do they or do they not have a panhandle?
Ohhh! Wanna have!
So what's gonna be left in the Laptop market is Dell, HP and Apple? In other words, you won't be able to buy a laptop anymore that works, isn't loaded with crapware to the brim or doesn't costs a fortune? Or has all three awesome qualities?
I've had a ROG laptop for about 3 years now, no problems here. Can't say much about their support, though, never needed it.
Sorry, I cannot second that. I, too, have an Asus notebook. It's now about 3 years old and still running very well, no signs of ever going to fail. I did swap the (secondary) HD for an SSD and it went without a problem. Open tray, pluck old one out, stuff new one in, boot up.
I do also know Lenovo notebooks and to be honest, I fail to see the huge difference in convenience. What I do see, though, is a difference in price and amount of crapware...
Yes, but back then leaders who fucked up at least had the honor to kill themselves.
You don't wish that on your worst enemy. You know what happens to you when a CEO makes a mistake? Yes. YOU get fired.
Now imagine two CEOs that don't like each other where one considers everything the other one does or makes others do a mistake. No matter what you're told to do, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
In our company it's more a "revolving door CEO structure".
Don't kinkshame!
That's pretty much the point.
There was also life on Earth during the Late Bombardment period. And boy, you better believe it was warmer than today! With MUCH higher CO2 and MUCH lower (read: zero) Oxygen levels.
Except that it didn't. From what we can tell today, it was a period of non-homogeneous slight variations in temperature. Today Britain, tomorrow Black Sea. The reason for which is still mostly a mystery, but what can be said is that whatever caused it was mostly concentrated in the northern hemisphere, and here in Eurasia.
Yes, there's a difference. But more and more people are unable to actually understand the difference.
It's funny, though, that it's usually the same people who loathe regulatory bodies are also the ones that get conned by such con artists who exist exactly because we eliminate those very regulatory bodies that would have prevented these things from happening. And then they turn around and declare that everyone's out to get them, everyone's swindling them out of their money and that EVERYTHING is a scam. Usually only to turn around and buy a book from some snakeoil peddler hawking some conspiracy bullshit.
Yes, we live in interesting times.
Thanks, Boomers...
The sooner the world's got rid of them, the sooner we can start cleaning up their mess.
The FAI.