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Consultant x day; sax VGM cover artist x night. Epee fencing, fringe Mormon blogging & YouTube Product Expert. 4w5 he/him/his
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NO ONE:

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:

ME: the existence of christmas in deltarune means that dark sanctuary can be a black gospel song .
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Never change, Reddit, lol
A screenshot showing a reddit to up votes section, showing that the post has been down voted to 0
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Sometimes I feel bad that my music covers of 30+ year old games predictably only get 12 views, but then when someone comments with view 13 it feels worth it.
A screenshot of Comments on "QuasiSpace [Star Control II with lyrics]". The comment reads: "I don't know how you come up with the idea, but this is beautiful. Summer'93, playing StarCon2 with my friend... all the Universe is before us and we're going to live forever..."
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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i'm a psychopath, but hear me out....Alicia from Expedition 33 but in the style of and mashed up the SSBU theme song, complete with reinterpreted lyrics for Lifelight
beginning lyrics: "Chromas weave into Maelle's Phoenix Flame Then she Sparks into a Defensive Change" but that's all i got so far
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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hello everyone who was searching for @insaneintherainmusic.com 's Determination cover after 10th anniversary stream and instead found my cover instead lol

hope ur disappointment isn't immeasurable
September 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"You should let old music lie and focus on new releases"

ACTUALLY ME:
a screenshot of a file titled "Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest_additionalVOX_vocals_Additional_Full_v5.mp3"
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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People be like: "I don't want to give YouTube my ID, what if YouTube gets hacked?"

Meanwhile, people also be like:
A thread from Reddit asking, "If I change my password on gmail does it forcibly log out everyone? I just want to know because a friend when I was dumb I gave him my password (it's not my main gmail just my gamer one) I stopped being his friend and he tried to unblock himself using my gmail"
August 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Gemini thinking about whether it should just lie to my face before deciding otherwise. (It actually still lied. Gemini can access YouTube videos but whatever)
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I'll reiterate: if *we* want to use online services, we have to give those services permission to do things. From a copyright perspective, the legal language to describe those things that only the copyright owner can do are as follows. This is why you'll keep seeing this stuff over and over.
A screenshot of 17 U.S. Code § 106 - Exclusive rights in copyrighted works. It states that: the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1)to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2)to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3)to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4)in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; (5)in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and (6)in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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a lot of people in the commenits are basically assuming that "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free" itself is the company stealing your property.

It also feels like Bsky is still getting sublicenseable and ai-trainable but in more human-friendly language
A screenshot of Bluesky's Terms of Service focused on section 2: User Content: Two clauses are highlighted, noting that Bluesky is requesting permission to "Use User Content to develop, provide, and improve Bluesky Social, the AT Protocol, and any of our future offerings" and to "Grant others the right to take the actions above. "
July 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ME: I feel like there's a track from deltarune chapter 4 that's channeling homestuck vibes, like...genesis frog. but which is it? GYAAA it's on the thip of my tongue
Screenshot of the Bandcamp listing for Gyaa Ha Ha from Deltarune Chapters 3+4 OST, showing that it was composed by Toby Fox, but....arranged by Alex Rosetti. (dramatic da da dunnhhhh!) Screenshot of the bandcamp entry for thip of the tongue...by Alex Rosetti. (DA DA DUNNHH)
July 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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based on the AI powering YouTube's Inspiration tab, it seems like I simply must cover The World Revolving from Earthbound
A screenshot of YouTube's inspiration tab. In addition to recommending a lyric cover of Undertale - Megalovania, A Saxophone's Guiding Hand: A Deltarune Analysis, and Final Fantasy VII - One-Winged Angel, Lyric Cover Sotry, it recommends that viewers would be interested in "EarthBound - The World Revolving, Lyric Cover Story"
July 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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so, youtube now recommends me community polls of people writing polls about google account things. such as this.

and like, there's one answer that's definitely closer to the others, but the people facing this issue usually don't have the right things set up to be able to go through Account Recovery
A community poll on YouTube asking: "What is the best way to recover a Gmail Account Password ?" The options are "Create a new Gmail account." "Contact Google customer support." "Use the "Forgot Password" option and follow recovery steps." and "Ask a friend for their Gmail password"
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Statistically speaking, you were not different. But I hope it won't be too late for you
YouTube studio card showing performance of a video titled "Everyone ignores this until it's too late". The thumbnail asks, "will you be different?" The video currently has 99 views, an impressions click through rate of 4.7%, and an average view duration of 2 minutes, 52 seconds, suggesting that most people don't click and even people who click do not watch much of the video.
June 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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not gonna make it
a screenshot of a thread to the Google Account Help Community. It uses a generic template that says: "Forgotten Google Account's Password I forgot the password of my Google Account. It doesn't have recovery email or phone number. Please help me to get my Google Account back and reset the password. Thank you!" A response to the original poster on the Google Account Help Community. It says: "It seems that you're copying and pasting a template from a YouTube video that was misleading. The reality is that if you have forgotten the password, then you need to have access to the recovery phone and recovery email to complete Google Account recovery to get access to the account. If you don't have access to the password, phone, or email, then the account is probably lost forever. Please note that Google Account recovery by itself is "self-recovery" or "self-service" ONLY. There is NO "support team" you can get in contact with. This forum is a user-to-user forum. We cannot reset your password or bypass 2-step verification. When you create your next Google Account, make sure to add a recovery phone and recovery email and keep those up to date." A reply from the original poster on the Google Account Help Community. It says: "hello! thank you for replying! i really really need that account because there's a bunch of important files on that account, can you please reset the password of my account? thank you in advance!"
June 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Apple: "bet we can release the worst UX of 2025"

YouTube: "hold my beer"
a screenshot of a new YouTube UX, where it is impossible to unsubscribe from a channel that has memberships. The subscribe button simply directs one to join the channel memberships. Instead, the unsubscribe button is hidden in the notification bell drop down.
June 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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since Final Fantasy Tactics is getting remastered, I have an excuse to revisit my old FFT covers. The original recordings are so old that I'll probably re-record all the parts, but the fun part is adding lyrics 🤗
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Incredible
A screenshot of YouTube's thumbnail test and compare feature. Despite one thumbnail generating 56.4% of all test-related watch time, YouTube announced that "the test finished without a conclusive result"
May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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It's going to be so funny in 2 days when YouTube says that results are statistically inconclusive
A screenshot of YouTube's Thumbnail test and compare feature. It shows 3 thumbnails, where one thumbnail is generating 53.5% of all the watch time from the test, and the other two thumbnails are generating 28.8% and 17.7%, respectively
May 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Can a man born into the underworld who barely escaped it help take it down?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVZO...
A screenshot of a blue oceanic planet, with overlays of three faces on top
May 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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sometimes, people just can't be helped:
A screenshot from a Reddi comment by SanicBringsThePanic that says: "Nimbus screen capture has been around for a while now. So long in fact, that they have premium paid services by now. There is no reason they would stick malware in their software. I do not trust Google on their supposed "malware" claims. As we speak, Google is trying to remove ad-blocking and privacy-related extensions from their platform. It also does not sit well with me that Google force-disables extensions that users previously installed, without our consent. Practices like that are why degoogled variants like Ungoogled Chromium are ever more important."
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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What.... What exactly does morningfame think YouTube thinks my video is about, exactly..?
A comparison of thumbnails from the service morningfame. The service asks Which Thumbnail Would You Click? These videos are ranking alongside your Big Blue but it's a space western... video. Does your thumbnail stand out and grab the attention of the viewer? However, below is shown 5 thumbnails of military equipment, explosions, warfare alongside the one thumbnail of a blue ocean planet.
May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I ask them to provide a help center article with that, because they would then have to admit that they were confusing the issue or making things up. And then the user replies as follows -- this is definitely chatGPT, isn't it?
Another comment from the YouTube community help forum, that says: Sure! You can find more information about the appeal process and guidelines for terminated channels on the YouTube Help Center. Here's the link to the relevant article: https://support.google.com/legal/answer/2802168?hl=en This article explains how to appeal a channel termination, the review process, and what to do if you believe your channel was terminated by mistake. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
May 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The user responded with something that they put in double quotations, but I strongly suspect they are now just asking ChatGPT:
Screenshot of a post on the YouTube community help forum that says: "The '21 day appeal' refers to the appeal process for a full channel suspension. It allows creators to challenge a full channel suspension within 21 days of the suspension being applied."
May 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Reading about the hungry gap on Wikipedia and getting hit with this line:
A screenshot of the Wikipedia article on the hungry gap ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_gap ) where it is mentioned that: "Means to bridge the gap[2] or part of it include: Using stored food: but stored potatoes sprout if kept too long in warm weather, and salted-away meat is used up or goes bad in store. See the origin of lent." "See the origin of lent" has been highlighted.
May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM