There’s things we all love about YouTube — old tv shows, music videos, people getting kicked in the balls. However, I’ve noticed it’s become increasingly hard to find anything you’re looking for, since it’s been infested with a never-ending stream of crap that absolutely no one is looking for. Let’s take a minute to talk about some of that crap…

Slide-effin-Shows

When I click on something that says “The Comic Genius of Will Ferrell,” I’m not expecting to see a slideshow of pictures of the comedian with a HIM song as accompaniment. That in no way shows me the comic genius of Will Ferrell. It shows me that you have a weird obsession with white guys with fro hair, and possibly the dude from HIM. If you’re gonna do this, at least label it correctly. Which leads me to my next annoyance…

Crap mislabeled as something people might actually want to see

You may think you’re being incredibly clever by labeling your high school prom footage as “Trailer for the New Watchmen Movie,” but if you have to pretend it’s something it’s not in order to get people to watch, maybe it’s not worth putting up, eh?

Case in point: A search for UFC fighters GSP and BJ Penn yielded the following gem, which has nothing to do with St. Pierre and Penn…unless of course they’ve become bad party magicians as a way to make extra cash:

Unintelligible camera phone footage

I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve clicked on something like “New Kanye West Song!” only to be greeted with nothing but crowd noise and static. Let me tell you something: If all I can hear is people screaming and something that sounds like “kkkkrrrrrrrr” in the background, that may not be the best representation of the new Kanye West song. In fact, it may not be something you need to share with the rest of the world.

Rick rolls

It’s not funny anymore. It’s just not.

Popular videos with your own “hilarious” edits

If I’m looking for a clip of the Swedish Olympic wrestler who went apeshit over getting a bronze medal, I really don’t want to click on a version that’s been put in slow motion with the sound of a cow mooing in the background. While this may have been freakin hilarious at 2:00am when you were high, it’s a real bitch to anybody else that has to see it.

And that’s only the beginning of the idiocy that’s all over YouTube — after all, I didn’t even mention all those people posting videos of themselves doing the Soulja Boy dance in their basement. What are some of your (least) favorite YouTube annoyances? Post a comment and share the misery.

Tags: internet, rick roll, videos, youtube

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