Category: YouTube
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Six years ago today: Nerdfighteria, Tacoma, and reflections on community
Adam reflects on a photo from six years ago, and how the communities of Nerdfighteria and Tacoma affected the course of his life.
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YouTube and Copyright
Adam recounts his experience with three major record labels claiming his rendition of Silent Night via YouTube’s content ID, and everything that happened afterward.
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YouTube’s content ID system brings humbug to the holidays
Adam inadvertently butts heads with the YouTube automatic content ID system when he sings “Silent Night” — a song firmly in the public domain.
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Help fund Tacoma-based “Cleanthony and the Caesars” webseries
In case you haven’t heard, I’m involved in a webseries project called Cleanthony and the Caesars. The brainchild of Kristie Worthey, best known for heading Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Tacoma (now being re-imagined as Inside Out Shakespeare) lo these many years, Cleanthony and the Caesars is a modern-day adaptation both Julius Caesar and Antony…
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Vlogbrothers reach 1,000 videos
As I prepared to head out to the 24th week of the Frost Park Chalk-Off’s fifth year, I began my Friday, September 14th, by watching Hank Green commemorate 1,000 Vlogbrothers videos. Of course, the Vlogbrothers have made well over 1,000 videos. Aside from not counting the videos they’ve put up on their other channels (Crash…
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Why I need your help
Greetings! I’m here to ask you to democratically elect this extraterrestrial as your monarch! That…that makes sense, right? No? Okay, here’s the deal: I’m competing in the King of the Web Contest. My chances, are slim, especially as there are folks in the mix with much higher viewership than my relatively meager efforts can claim. But…
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Adam the Alien launches fifth year of vlogging by running for King!
Come on, you know the alien invasion is coming either way. Might as well vote your extraterrestrial master democratically into his (my) role as monarch. Right? Right? Click here to vote for Adam the Alien as the next King of the Web! I got a late start in my campaign to be the next King…
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Fare thee well, sidebar
The sidebar is officially dead. A long-standing tradition and frequent in-joke of YouTube culture, the side-mounted video description has been suffering a slow, prolonged death for some time. Nevertheless, I was shocked when I went to watch my friend Beth‘s latest video on our collaborative channel, Vlogtag, and found that the layout of YouTube’s video…