Hundreds of millions of YouTube views go to “fake porn” videos that actually don’t show anything sexy at all. Clever YouTube users have figured out how to get huge traffic for the videos they upload. Just post a political rant, give it a hardcore sex title, add a provocative thumbnail image, and millions of people will click to your video! The trick is to include the sex image at exactly the place in the video where YouTube auto-grabs the thumbnail image. One video has over 67+ million views but is mysteriously absent from YouTube’s list of most viewed videos. I guess they don’t want us to know that 87% of all YouTube traffic is from people searching in vain for porn.

Jonah Peretti
posted about 3 years ago

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