The whole Youtube "premiere" thing can kiss my ass and die in a fire.

[kane_magus]

This "premiere" shit on Youtube needs to die. I just got a notification about a video that, apparently, won't actually be released for five more days. They can fuck off with that shit, because, for me at least, the whole point of the notifications is to let me know when a new video has been released, not to let me know when a new video is maybe about to be released in a week or so.

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[owsf2000]

Well that's one way to give americans a taste of what region blocking feels for the rest of us - only we ain't ever likely to see/hear of the region blocked stuff.

I can't say I give a shit about the premiere thing personally, but they really need to fuck off with giving you a notice about something won't be released for X days/whatever. You know the only reason they bother doing that is because it serves as "advertising" for premiere (as in "Look what you're not getting because you're not paying us bank bitch.") Which is not the best way to go about advertising. It usually ends up biting you in the ass.

They should just not announce it to you until it's actually available - if they want to advertise premiere at that point by saying "This was released 5 days ago to those with premere" then so be it. It's still dickish but it's not nearly as infuriating imo.

[kane_magus]

I don't mind quite as much when they do the premiere shit for videos that are currently (at the moment I receive the notification) being streamed. Some More News tends to do that with seemingly every third or fourth video or so that they put out. I usually wait a few hours until the streaming shit is over and done with and then just watch the video normally (or, more accurately, it has usually been a few hours between when they sent out the notification and when I actually checked my email to receive it, not that I don't wait anyway even when I get it as it's happening).

But yeah, this whole "announcing a video that hasn't even been released yet" bullshit, which I've thankfully only seen happen once, so far, needs to die already, before it becomes a Thing™.

For what it's worth, at least as far as I am aware, "premiere" has nothing to do with paid Youtube or whatever. They're just using the word in the sense of the actual definition of it. The video creator is using this asinine new "feature" of Youtube to treat their precious Youtube video like it's fucking TV or movies or something, PREMIERE OF MY AWESOMESAUCE YOUTUBE VIDEO IN FIVE DAYS STAY TUNED MARK YOUR CALENDARS or some shit. Like, fuck off with that pretentious horseshit, it's a goddamn Youtube video, not a new episode of some big fancy pants TV series or some hotshot blockbuster movie or whatever. It's not like TV (or, at least, ye olden days of TV) where they would announce the premiere of a show in advance and you had to have your butt in the seat in front of the TV when it aired if you wanted to see it or risk missing it forever. *eye-roll* It's fucking Youtube. That shit will last forever and can be viewed at your leisure[1].

It seems mostly like they're trying to turn Youtube into something like Twitch with this bullshit. Especially with the chat feature that goes along with it, and which remains there on the side even after the stream is over, and which I have set to automatically never show. Youtube comments are bad enough as they are, and I don't need to see that sort of textual frothing feces in realtime or after the fact. I don't give the slightest fuck about "interacting" with Youtube content creators or watching them "live" or what the fuck ever. And I sure as shit don't need to know that they're going to release their video in a week or whatever. I just want to watch the damn video when it's out, no more and no less. But if they're going to start using this dumbshit more and more often, my interest in doing even that much will wane.

[1] - At least until it gets hit with a DMCA takedown or until the creator otherwise decides to arbitrarily pull it for their own shitfuck reasons. But even then it's usually only unavailable until dozens of other people reupload it. That's been my experience 99.9% of the time, anyway. I click a link to a video (usually via TVTropes or whatever), get a "this video has been removed due to copyright claims by Shiteaters, Inc." or whatever, then I search for whatever that video was supposed to be, and I find dozens of replacement videos uploaded by other people, usually in a concerted effort to "stick it to the man" or whatever. Or, failing that, I can usually find it on Dailymotion or Vimeo or whatever. Only very rarely anymore do I find that a particular video is truly gone for good. Just yet another facet of why copyright bullshit is ineffective bullshit, but that's mostly another rant for another time.