Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Top Videos on YouTube

I always wondered why Avril Lavigne's "Boyfriend" video was the #1 video on YouTube. This explains it!

Avril Lavigne, 'Girlfriend'

Pop-punk songstress Avril Lavigne's anthem to girlfriend-hating and man-stealing holds the top spot on YouTube for the most viewed video of all time, but it didn't get there truly organically. Avril's die-hard fans at AvrilBandAids.com were the first to successfully game YouTube view counts in a massive way by using a complex scheme to cheat the system by opening browsers that refreshed every 15 seconds to repeatedly play the video. They then used the publicity from their cheating scheme to push the clip over the top virally. Well played, mall punks. -RV, urlesque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI

As of today, it looks like it's been surpassed by Evolution of Dance, which actually makes a lot more sense...

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