kat, that is not outside the realm of possibility, except it's business, not ego. Maybe it's just the over-developed hairs on my suspicion node, but it sure does seem like someone is very quickly organizing (or spamming) a multitude of bogus complaints about YT zit vids that PTZ picks up.
Now stay with me, Emilbus. What if there is some site that sees itself as a competitor with PTZ for splurching vids, but it doesn't limit itself to zit vids. It is a larger "gross" site, on which zit vids are a "lighter" category among a score or more which are MUCH grosser. Pics/vids of surgeries, fatal accidents, corpses, war and burn victims, even videos of people being beheaded.
So what if the gross-out site can get a virtual MONOPOLY on zit vids? That would mean that instead of going to PTZ, people MUST GO to Mr. Russian's "Gross-o-rama.com". Which, surprise!, is a subscription site. And the bottom line is, if you want to see the good splurch vids, you'll have to plop down a fistful of Euros. And PTZ.com begins its death by starvation.
To do it the Russian hires a few hot-shot computer hackers to obtain his gross videos, and to also secure and store them permanently. And then the genius part to undermine his competition for the zit videos. the Russian has his hackers manufacture a spammed "complaint campaign" at YT. I bet YT is so automated that after a certain number of complaints, regardless of truth or accuracy of a complaint, it automatically zaps the vid with a "removed for violation" message. I mean, how else do we explain zit vids being thrown down the YT memory hole within 24 hours of it being posted at PTZ? In fact, being posted at PTZ is probably the death warrant for these vids.
***Bottom line:the hackers monitor PTZ daily, and as soon as a good vid goes up, the Russian's hackers copy it to their site, and then release the "complaint bots" on it at YT so that it disappears from PTZ's embed in the next day or so.****
{EDIT} Oh, MomE, 4chan is just such an uber-gross site as I describe. There are simply no limits except those that would get the company put in jail in Sodom or Gomorrah. Even San Francisco. But I don't think it has a subscription fee. Anyone else know?
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