‘Tricia Walsh Smith is working hard to fashion a career out of YouTube rants’: Guardian

“[Tricia Walsh] Smith claims that both spammers and YouTube are conspiring against her; YouTube has been trying to combat the gaming of video views by spammers and has frozen the video view counter on some accounts. Smith blames this change on apparently low take-up of her latest video, and thought that her decision not to show ads on a previous video might have made YouTube less sympathetic.”

Smith, the infamous YouTube Divorcee, says,

“I’m trying to launch a record career – people who are follow me know I’ve had doors closed for me all over the place – the only place I have is my YouTube account . . .

That is mine! It’s my music account! I have investors investing in my music career. At this moment in time I have no record label and no manager – I just have my YouTube account . . .

The no-life spammers have targeted this vid amongst others with their viewbot software. I just saw a forum where the morons are gleeful about the mayhem they’re causing. They’re trying to  bring YouTube down. All they have to do is hit your vid 200 times from a single IP address to kick start YouTube’s recently introduced counter-spammer view limiter, which freezes your view count . . .

I was the one that opened up YouTube for people like me — before it was just for the kids and whoever and now the President of America is on it – the Queen’s on it! Once upon a time I could just go to an airport and walk through — now I have to take my damn shoes off. Why do people spoil things?”"

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