Silver... You started a topic once, what's with the world today ?...
This is what's with the world today, a numbed view of Violence... people are watching stuff on You Tube and it's breeding a culture, this sort of thing is the next step up from happy slapping... What's next, fun time stabbing ?...
I don't see how you can raise a topic based on mindless violence in the news and then almost support this kind of behaviour on the NET.... Its one and the same thing... The makers of the video's have no respect for the person they injure while filming these exploits.
Would this sort of thing happen of the NET didn't spring board the video's to a higher level...?
It's like the first camera phones made a great platfrom for happy slapping, the NET now serves this as entertainment while still using a mobile device as a tool...
If you look at this debate in this way, you can see the point I am trying to make...
All my topic's I start off with the basic bones of an idea and build on them slowly, I don't give the full picture right away, else what's there to debate, I would have nothing to add...?
but to find videos like these you have to specifically search for them. The People who are filming them no doubt do, to them it's like an online fight club... with the content getting worst all the time...
I am still a big fan of You Tube and have many video's of me and my mates on there, just not half killing each other.... I think it needs serious policing... It's becoming some thing other than fun.
Then what are you trying to do? You don't want to see that, so you're trying to stop others from seeing it? LoS said he's emailed whoever about the videos, presumably trying to get them removed so the rest of us can't see them. I guess this post is pointed more at LoS than you. You Tube is not Orgish... Or Rotten.com... Families and friends use it as a medium to converse, it's a window for some on another culture... For me You Tube has help diversify my comedy palette, and helped me see many a short film I never would have... View my favourites.
http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=landofshadows Saucy:-
Sorry if I knocked people off track with the Bear vs Lion video... But I have stated many a time it was an example, here, humour me, try this Put in your home town followed by the word fight or punch... You will soon see many people are trying to get noticed through a medium of violence.
I have asked is it just me that thinks this way so far one person on here agree's... I am surprised...
I am not trying to force any thing on you, all I would like is to debate if you think You Tube is changing...?
From the point of take over the content filter is very relaxed, porn links and video's like those mentioned are staying up...
When I call it a breeding ground I mean its giving a new lease of life to the happy slapping fad, and then spring boarding it to a new height, and it worries me... See some of the faces of the observers, sheer joy, laughing, joking and jesting, in one video they can be heard "kill him"... The comments below the video's no one seems to say, was the guy who got battered OK ?... And the amount of racism is shocking....
OK I done a search on wiggles I found many strip tease video's along with the kids show... But no Fight vid's...
But as normal I search on "Funny" and after a few chained links found this:-
Age Restricted, but why is it tagged under Entertainment and Funny ?
This video, is just mental this one I found interesting but at the same time no age restriction, again it's under Funny and Entertainment:-
People find these clips because they want to find them. They view these clips because they want to view them. True... Does the kid in your class watch it, does the kid in your class laugh at some else's misfortune, will that Kid then get his mate and film you getting your head stamped on...?
Extream...? Nope that's whats happening.... Breeding of Violence.