Avril Cheats and YouTube Supports It?
Filed under: Avril Lavigne > Canadialand > Icky Icky Poo > Tech Talk > YouTube
We mentioned last month that Avril Lavigne's "hard core fans" were on a mission to make her video for the song Girlfriend the most played ever on YouTube.
Well, as of Friday morning, Team Avril toppled the now former #1 spot holder, the Evolution of Dance video, with 92,696,978 views.
BUT, Douchette Supremo's video didn't get there by legit means!
As we've previously reported - and corroborated by Wired - a website was created to automatically play the Girlfriend video every 15 seconds. Avril's fans inflated her play counts, propelling her vid to "most viewed" ever.
Avril's "Band Aids" plan to use this shady tactic til her vid gets to the 100 million views mark, the first-ever to do so on YouTube.
YouTube's policy is to remove videos from the most-played section if they discover that their view count system has been gamed.
Why haven't they done that??????
YouTube still has April's video listed in the site's "most viewed of all time" category.
Wired went on to reveal that YouTube has probably turned a blind eye to Avril's shadiness because the site's making advertising money off of the fake views.
Shady Lavigne's manager revealed the following at a business conference in London on Thursday:
"there's about a $2 million check waiting for her for all her YouTube plays."
Douchette and her managers are getting a cut of YouTube advertising sales money! Money they didn't even get by legit means!
We hope the shadily earned money is going to a charity.
[Image via WENN.]
Re: Noone – Avril has talent. You have no idea.
AS A I FAN AND FOR ALL THE FANZ WE DID SHOW UP TO HER CONCERTS AND WE DO CARE ABOUT HER
PEREZ I LOVE YOUR GOSSIP BUT STOP DISSING AVRIL UR ACTING LIKE A SCHOOL YARD BULLY
i think everyone who is against her video being repeatedly played should flag the video. i flagged it as "shocking and repulsive behavior"
and then i watched the evolution of dance about 50 times cause i love that video and it is 100 time better than avril
That is so ridiculous, Avril is terrible and the song is the worst I've heard.
its sad that her video could go down in youtube history as being most watched when it isnt at all. how can you tube allow it to be? if her fan have set up automatic viewing sites and not actualy "viewing" it!!!
Perez GET OVER it ,, she doesnt care what you think, Who care who is number one, What dont you live your life and let her live hers.. YOU STUPID ASS..
YAY!!!! Avril is the queen of youtube!
she has the biggest, best and MOST watched video of all time!
TOTALLY DERSERVE IT
Go Avril!!!
also she should recive more money cause 93 MILLIONS views is a lot
just image 93 MILLIONS
damn that's A LOOOOOOOOOOOOT I mean I A LOT!.
perez, stop deleting comments that actually make sense. did you shove those metal pipes in yet?
Avrils video "girlfriend" already had close to 89 million views before the campaign started and by tv and blogs like this it just made it more popular leading to the so many views. She did not cheat. Perez your a douche and you dont deserve to be famous your so sad.