how does that old saying go there’s no
such thing as bad publicity well tell
that to these guys don’t can’t talk so
do they have brains like yes they wah
but it because we’re telling them to
walk welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 dumbest things to happen in
youtube history before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at infamous
moments trends or videos related to
YouTube that left a lasting impression
on pop culture for all the wrong reasons
number 10 gullible is not in the
dictionary did you know that 95% of all
Americans are scientifically illiterate
it might seem hard to believe but
YouTube hasn’t been around forever and
back in its early years one of the most
hated videos around was a two-minute
sarcastic rant about how gullible is not
really a word now if you just believe me
most people did not agree angry little
girl
the youtuber behind it spends most of
the short running time blasting cultural
institutions like education and religion
for the blatant lies and statistics they
feed the masses before asking her
viewers to question what’s taught to
them and not be so gullible man to be
fair that is exactly what they did what
does time mean time convene anything
number 9 vlogs gone wrong we were gonna
go on Splash Mountain
everyone has that one epic moment they
wish could have been shared with the
world thankfully YouTube’s got everyone
covered as a cheap smartphone is enough
to reach an audience of potential
millions thus the word vlog was invented
okay the gone wrong trend used to be
memorable and surprising when it first
started out but that was before it blew
up into a cultural phenomenon and easy
clickbait once it became obvious that
most of these mishaps were about as
authentic as well any reality show ever
it might have been time to put it to bed
that said we did get one kick-ass parody
video out of it so worth it number eight
drama alert a channel that thrives on
creating controversy drama alert and its
hosts keemstar covers social media
related news with a focus on revealing
truths about other youtubers in 2016
things were taken a step too far when
keemstar exposed Tony a 62 year old
twitch user as a pedophile
who used runescape to target minors
unsurprisingly this led to a massive
witch-hunt and the elderly gamer was
harassed online to the point of Tears I
know who and what I am and my real
friends know a problem is that Tony was
completely innocent and John Philips the
culprit keemstar was actually referring
to was already in prison whatever
damages this guy wants we’re gonna pay
them we own up to our mistakes and we
apologize number 7 pop song parodies
others
over the last few years there has been
no shortage of celebrities ripe for a
good roasting one of the most
oversaturated parody styles is to
transform a popular music video into a
twisted vehicle of ridicule the best not
only leave the viewer rolling on the
floor but also effectively use the
medium as a means to critique the
hypocrisy of pop culture icons and
society in general the rest joke about
the celebrity’s appearance overuse
gross-out humor or dub in their own
exaggerated vocals just for the hell of
it if YouTube has taught us anything
it’s that Weird Al Yankovic has nothing
to worry about
number six prank channels with some of
these entries too much of a good thing
is the best way to describe them prank
channels were fine in the beginning when
they were mild and enjoyable for
everyone involved seems like it met as
they became more and more commonplace
however the creator started escalating
the gags to try and continuously shock
the audience if you
can’t guess the color of the soccer
burning on this side I get to give you a
kiss they went from being funny social
experiments to plain old harassment with
the only defense being that it was just
a prank bro others would hire actors to
play the role of the victim
Lynch kind of defeats the whole point
unless the audience members are the ones
being pranked number five children
videos some of these topics may be
annoying but this one is just plain
creepy we’re not talking about shows for
children but videos where the whole
point is to watch some stranger’s son or
daughter do completely normal everyday
things there’s a whole range of channels
that are dedicated to filming kids
opening toys or eating chocolate in
glorious HD with some having a view
count of well over 40 million these
little tykes have been seen all around
the world and have yet to even hit
puberty
we hope these videos don’t come back to
haunt them when they’re older
number four The Annoying Orange look
hard enough and anything can be found on
YouTube where else could a sketch show
about an anthropomorphic orange and a
ragtag group of depressed fruits thrive
now with just over six million
subscribers Annoying Orange premiered in
2009 and has featured in over 400
episodes you are driving me crazy most
videos follow the titular Orange as he
mercilessly baits another fruit until
the hand of God more in this case the
hand of Chef puts them out of their
misery
typically in as gruesome a manner as
possible showing no sign of slowing down
anytime soon it might be a while before
this rotten piece of produce is finally
stuffed in a blender for good
number three Google+ takes over YouTube
comments since its launch in 2011 Google
has been slowly incorporating Google+
into as many of their services as
possible this came to a head in 2013
when the company announced that users
would need a Google+ account to leave a
comment
on YouTube although this did reduce the
number of troll accounts that would
flood the comment section most side as a
blatant attempt for the technological
juggernaut to gather even more data on
users people are not linking to just you
know
Kotaku neo-gothic they’re linking to
viruses and screamers and and garbage in
2015 after an unsurprising backlash
google stopped forcing their social
network on youtubers and went back to
how things used to be number two Rebecca
Black Friday
[Music]
almost serving is a cautionary tale for
any white eye teen with aspirations of
superstardom Rebecca Black’s Friday
might go down in history as the worst
pop song ever
whether it’s warranted or not
[Music]
the painfully vanilla party lyrics which
to their credit correctly point out that
Saturday follows Friday are made even
worse due to blacks heavily auto-tuned
voice and amateurish performance with
the original video eventually racking up
over 166 million views the 13 year old
singers propulsion into the public
consciousness saw her on the unfortunate
receiving end of widespread bullying and
ridicule number one react world famous
for shows like teens react
the fine brother sought to expand their
media empire when they announced react
world in 2016 the concept was that
external content creators could license
the react format to create their own
videos in return fine brothers
entertainment would get a percentage of
the revenue earned we are excited to
announce react world which is the first
of its kind program that allows people
and companies to license all our popular
shows online but users saw this as an
attempt to kill the competition which
was not helped by the brothers track
record of takedown requests on similar
channels and the fact that they even try
to pretend that they invented this genre
just shows how delusional and possibly
malicious they are despite multiple
attempts to backtrack react world was
abandoned and the fine brother saw a
large drop in subscribers which was
probably not the reaction they were
expecting do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
such thing as bad publicity well tell
that to these guys don’t can’t talk so
do they have brains like yes they wah
but it because we’re telling them to
walk welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 dumbest things to happen in
youtube history before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at infamous
moments trends or videos related to
YouTube that left a lasting impression
on pop culture for all the wrong reasons
number 10 gullible is not in the
dictionary did you know that 95% of all
Americans are scientifically illiterate
it might seem hard to believe but
YouTube hasn’t been around forever and
back in its early years one of the most
hated videos around was a two-minute
sarcastic rant about how gullible is not
really a word now if you just believe me
most people did not agree angry little
girl
the youtuber behind it spends most of
the short running time blasting cultural
institutions like education and religion
for the blatant lies and statistics they
feed the masses before asking her
viewers to question what’s taught to
them and not be so gullible man to be
fair that is exactly what they did what
does time mean time convene anything
number 9 vlogs gone wrong we were gonna
go on Splash Mountain
everyone has that one epic moment they
wish could have been shared with the
world thankfully YouTube’s got everyone
covered as a cheap smartphone is enough
to reach an audience of potential
millions thus the word vlog was invented
okay the gone wrong trend used to be
memorable and surprising when it first
started out but that was before it blew
up into a cultural phenomenon and easy
clickbait once it became obvious that
most of these mishaps were about as
authentic as well any reality show ever
it might have been time to put it to bed
that said we did get one kick-ass parody
video out of it so worth it number eight
drama alert a channel that thrives on
creating controversy drama alert and its
hosts keemstar covers social media
related news with a focus on revealing
truths about other youtubers in 2016
things were taken a step too far when
keemstar exposed Tony a 62 year old
twitch user as a pedophile
who used runescape to target minors
unsurprisingly this led to a massive
witch-hunt and the elderly gamer was
harassed online to the point of Tears I
know who and what I am and my real
friends know a problem is that Tony was
completely innocent and John Philips the
culprit keemstar was actually referring
to was already in prison whatever
damages this guy wants we’re gonna pay
them we own up to our mistakes and we
apologize number 7 pop song parodies
others
over the last few years there has been
no shortage of celebrities ripe for a
good roasting one of the most
oversaturated parody styles is to
transform a popular music video into a
twisted vehicle of ridicule the best not
only leave the viewer rolling on the
floor but also effectively use the
medium as a means to critique the
hypocrisy of pop culture icons and
society in general the rest joke about
the celebrity’s appearance overuse
gross-out humor or dub in their own
exaggerated vocals just for the hell of
it if YouTube has taught us anything
it’s that Weird Al Yankovic has nothing
to worry about
number six prank channels with some of
these entries too much of a good thing
is the best way to describe them prank
channels were fine in the beginning when
they were mild and enjoyable for
everyone involved seems like it met as
they became more and more commonplace
however the creator started escalating
the gags to try and continuously shock
the audience if you
can’t guess the color of the soccer
burning on this side I get to give you a
kiss they went from being funny social
experiments to plain old harassment with
the only defense being that it was just
a prank bro others would hire actors to
play the role of the victim
Lynch kind of defeats the whole point
unless the audience members are the ones
being pranked number five children
videos some of these topics may be
annoying but this one is just plain
creepy we’re not talking about shows for
children but videos where the whole
point is to watch some stranger’s son or
daughter do completely normal everyday
things there’s a whole range of channels
that are dedicated to filming kids
opening toys or eating chocolate in
glorious HD with some having a view
count of well over 40 million these
little tykes have been seen all around
the world and have yet to even hit
puberty
we hope these videos don’t come back to
haunt them when they’re older
number four The Annoying Orange look
hard enough and anything can be found on
YouTube where else could a sketch show
about an anthropomorphic orange and a
ragtag group of depressed fruits thrive
now with just over six million
subscribers Annoying Orange premiered in
2009 and has featured in over 400
episodes you are driving me crazy most
videos follow the titular Orange as he
mercilessly baits another fruit until
the hand of God more in this case the
hand of Chef puts them out of their
misery
typically in as gruesome a manner as
possible showing no sign of slowing down
anytime soon it might be a while before
this rotten piece of produce is finally
stuffed in a blender for good
number three Google+ takes over YouTube
comments since its launch in 2011 Google
has been slowly incorporating Google+
into as many of their services as
possible this came to a head in 2013
when the company announced that users
would need a Google+ account to leave a
comment
on YouTube although this did reduce the
number of troll accounts that would
flood the comment section most side as a
blatant attempt for the technological
juggernaut to gather even more data on
users people are not linking to just you
know
Kotaku neo-gothic they’re linking to
viruses and screamers and and garbage in
2015 after an unsurprising backlash
google stopped forcing their social
network on youtubers and went back to
how things used to be number two Rebecca
Black Friday
[Music]
almost serving is a cautionary tale for
any white eye teen with aspirations of
superstardom Rebecca Black’s Friday
might go down in history as the worst
pop song ever
whether it’s warranted or not
[Music]
the painfully vanilla party lyrics which
to their credit correctly point out that
Saturday follows Friday are made even
worse due to blacks heavily auto-tuned
voice and amateurish performance with
the original video eventually racking up
over 166 million views the 13 year old
singers propulsion into the public
consciousness saw her on the unfortunate
receiving end of widespread bullying and
ridicule number one react world famous
for shows like teens react
the fine brother sought to expand their
media empire when they announced react
world in 2016 the concept was that
external content creators could license
the react format to create their own
videos in return fine brothers
entertainment would get a percentage of
the revenue earned we are excited to
announce react world which is the first
of its kind program that allows people
and companies to license all our popular
shows online but users saw this as an
attempt to kill the competition which
was not helped by the brothers track
record of takedown requests on similar
channels and the fact that they even try
to pretend that they invented this genre
just shows how delusional and possibly
malicious they are despite multiple
attempts to backtrack react world was
abandoned and the fine brother saw a
large drop in subscribers which was
probably not the reaction they were
expecting do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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