adding or making annotations on youtube is going byebye may 2nd

[Mr Queeba]

this is really dumb, unfortunately youtube can get away with complete bullstuff like heroes and now this because they have money

[Ad Bot]

[SlayerZ99]

That's where you're wrong.

They'll do this, then the internet will move on and forget, in the mean time this will boost publicity.
We saw this with YouTube Heroes, and we've seen this with every YouTube Political Biased event, such as the
featured "Celebrities tell you not to vote for Annoying Orange." situation, and the one where the "I'm Gay" meme spawned from.

They do controversial, and sometimes, downright obviously stupid things because it brings the spotlight on them.

you think removing annotations in gonna boost youtubes publicity...?

[gr8dayseth]

well it's not like youtube needs more publicity than they already have

[Blockomaniac]

youtubes at the very top, i doubt theres any more publicity to achieve

[Master Matthew²]

you think removing annotations in gonna boost youtubes publicity...?

Not now, later, when they add it back in the battle against the cable companies.

This is for YouTube's Publicity, later, when they "rerelease" their features.

[AutoBahn]

They'll do this, then the internet will move on and forget, in the mean time this will boost publicity.

Ah, yes, because the 2nd place website on Alexa, a site that ranks websites by brown townytics data, needs more publicity.

[TheABELBOTO]

Matthew no one would consider annotations being re-added a game changer, just a convenience.

[Metario]

what the forget, like nobody loving asked for this stuff. what's even more stupid that existing annotations will remain, but you can't make them anymore. Wait a damn second, this kinda sounds a like roblox recent update they're putting out:

everybody go black and black-esque shades of black

[Hansome duded]

everybody go black and black-esque shades of black

was i paged?

[cooolguy32]

i am confused

[Master Matthew²]

Matthew no one would consider annotations being re-added a game changer, just a convenience.

No one who currently uses youtube, think about this, there are TONS of people out there who don't use youtube, or really any website for that matter.
They just watch their Cable TV.

You guys don't get it.
Youtube isn't going to compete against other websites.
Googles going to combine Youtube as a part of their Google Fibre Services, and combat Comcast and Time Warner head on (which primarily DO NOT use their websites, but rather their CABLE INDUSTRY)

[Hansome duded]

yeah but they're not a game changer. they were a simple convenience to do correcting of work that had some sort of typo or wasn't proofread/add a tidbit of information. has nothing to do with the actual quality of the content. it benefits people producing the content. annotations would be very situational for TV programs, but in the end, what do you really need to add in a tv annotation? an end card saying to subscribe to your channel? to expect a new episode January 1st? that you're going to livestream a video game? that you forgot something in the episode (acceptable in youtube videos but not in major tv productions)?

annotations were a somewhat trivial thing, even if some amateur video productions were to ride off of their existence. though i don't like the idea of them being gone, as channels have much more use for them than tv shows

tl;dr: lift your tinfoil hat. there are no advantages to annotations on a grand scale and this isn't the start of some big youtube war

[The Murderous Cop]

matthew can you please stop conspiracy theorizing in my thread about a singular youtube feature

like holy stuff, calm down and stop taking whatever drugs you're on

[sorrel]

Woah woah woah hol up
Annotations are the box things that people put at the end of their videos to link you to their other videos right? Or is that something completely different?

[The Murderous Cop]

Woah woah woah hol up
Annotations are the box things that people put at the end of their videos to link you to their other videos right? Or is that something completely different?

there's a new version of that, but the ones with text and links are leaving