dobnits Posted:

boiling frog

I guess it just goes to show who are the “sellouts” and who aren’t…but hey at least its not hulu (something I will never mention again in CD).

If you want to drop the cash to continue following them (the pay per view vids), more power to you. It’s your money, you do what you want with it. If spending it so you can laugh at the ironies of pop culture but dont care to figure them out yourself is your cup of tea, that’s all fine and dandy.

That said, its been pretty obvious right from the get-go of youtube and became PAINFULLY obvious that something like this would happen eventually back at the buyout. I still think this thread is just people complaining about this or the sake of complaining about it. Just saying, you all saw this coming, and you knew it.

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dobnits Posted:

That said, its been pretty obvious right from the get-go of youtube and became PAINFULLY obvious that something like this would happen eventually back at the buyout.

This is mostly retrospect, but I do remember entertaining the possibility of Google whoring it out way back when. But with all the pro-Google propaganda floating around, especially back around the IPO it was easy to get beguiled into thinking Google was the second coming of Christ, in search engine form (the first being AskJesus.org). Particularly because Google didn’t do anything obnoxious for the first few years after the IPO, but like China with Hong Kong it’s started to go bolder.