Line #115 DrinkingGame/YouTube


1	If you're bored one night with nothing to do but watch [=YouTube=], and don't mind waking up with a crippling hangover, take a drink whenever you encounter:
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3	* An ad or 2 gets shoved in your face.
4	** Double if it's unskippable.
5	* EpicFail videos, which mainly consist of someone trying and failing to pull off a stunt.
6	* Snarky blogs by online users.
7	* The latest trailer for a major movie release, usually copied off a website, or as the service has become more popular, released directly by the studios.
8	* Cat videos.
9	* Durability tests wherein an electronic device is either smashed with a sledgehammer, lit on fire, or shot with a gun.
10	* Several videos from a recently-held sporting event (bonus points if it involves a ridiculously improbable shot or goal).
11	* Political commentary videos.
12	* Videos promoting conspiracy theories, usually something along the lines of a musician being a member of TheIlluminati.
13	* Parts of the latest episode of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel''.
14	* ''Series/AmericanIdol''/''Series/BritainsGotTalent'' performances.
15	* A spam filter for the comments section.
16	* A video that's been marked as age-restricted despite the content being similar to non-restricted videos.
17	* A video that had its audio removed due to one of its music tracks not being authorized by a major record label.
18	* A video removed for terms of use violation (most times for obvious reasons, though other times, it's anyone's guess why).
19	* A video getting removed for copyright infringement.
20	* A video getting removed because the [=YouTube=] account associated with that video is deleted (for example the account was banned due to Multiple or Severe Community Guideline Violations, Multiple or Severe Copyright Violations, or they just closed their account).
21	* A video removed by the user of their own accord for reasons unknown.
22	* A video set to private for inexplicable reasons even though it was public when you added it to your playlist.
23	* Videos of people doing everyday, ordinary things, or just playing around.
24	* Videos complaining about [=YouTube=] censorship.
25	* [[ScreamerPrank Screamers]] and {{Jump Scare}}s in general[[labelnote:(protip)]]Reading comments before watching the video may help people to avoid nasty surprises (therefore, a video with disabled comments is a further reason to get suspicious); additionally, as of March 2012, an update allows to see thumbnails for any given moment in the video by moving the cursor, thus helping further with spotting a screamer in advance[[/labelnote]].
26	* The occasional JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}.
27	* YouTubePoop. If you really want to get smashed, [[DrinkingGame/YouTubePoop it has its own drinking game within]].
28	* Video game {{Lets Play}}s and walkthroughs.
29	* A video of someone taking something out of a box.
30	* A prank that's not related to [[ScreamerPrank Screamers]].
31	* Videos with millions of views about people talking about absolutely anything while playing video games.
32	* Videos that begin with a montage of parts of games put to a song as an intro.
33	* Videos that end by asking the viewer to [[PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel subscribe to the channel]].
34	* Videos that begin by asking the viewer to subscribe to the channel. ''Before'' the video shows what people would subscribe for.
35	* Videos that contain a distracting Subscribe icon.
36	** Take another drink if the visual comes with distracting sound effects like mouse clicks and/or a bell.
37	** Take another if this appears more than once in the same video.
38	** Take another if it drowns out the person speaking.
39	* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic Pony videos]].
40	* [[AnimatedMusicVideo Animated Music Videos]].
41	* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Strange videos featuring a tall, faceless businessman.]]
42	* {{Anime}} - usually in several parts and fansubbed/dubbed.
43	* Commercials so old that even your grandmother hasn't seen them.
44	* Commercials so weird even your grandmother can't make sense of them.
45	* Concert footage shot on low-resolution cell phones.
46	* Tons of [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay otaku girls and guys]], for [[{{Fanservice}} good]] or [[FanDisservice ill]].
47	* Tens of thousands of fake emergency alert tests. Many real EAS and EBS videos (mainly tests and tornado warnings) have been uploaded over the years.
48	** Don't forget the hate videos that popped right the fuck out of nowhere in 2011 and were forgotten as if they never happened.
49	* Episodes of still-running or forgotten TV shows. Some users will trick people into viewing their video by uploading a spoof image of an expected episode and filling it with spam, a still image, or a link to their own site instead. However, a portion of the site is dedicated to officially uploaded full seasons/series for shows ranging in age from the '60s to the late '00s. [[OfferVoidInNebraska Not outside the US (and sometimes Canada and/or the UK)]].
50	* {{Fanime}}s / {{fanvid}}s.
51	* Flash animation videos from sites like Platform/{{Newgrounds}} or Platform/NicoNicoDouga.
52	* [[GagSub Funny captions that are (for the most part) way, way off from what's being spoken.]]
53	* [[LetsPlay Video]] [[SpeedRun Game]] [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd playthroughs]] (especially of older or [[NoExportForYou not-exported]] games, or NintendoHard PlatformHell titles complete with [[SirSwearsALot expletive]]-[[{{Angrish}} laden]] running commentary.
54	** VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}} videos. Search "audiosurf [insert name of song]" and you'll find said song being played.
55	** Similarly, videos of ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' charts and full screen (with the person playing not recording them dancing) "VideoGame/JustDance" routines .
56	** VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} videos.
57	* Old movies in multiple parts or in one long video. These will either be public domain, or so old/obscure the current copyright holder either doesn't know or doesn't care that it's up on Youtube. Still best to watch them quick in case they do decide to take it down.
58	** Take another drink when you luck out and it was the copyright holder themselves that uploaded the film or show, perhaps hoping to make money off ad revenue because it's so obscure they can't profit from it any other way.
59	* Parodies of almost any popular song you can imagine.
60	* Popular scenes and moments from movies, TV shows, and the like.
61	* A song, particularly a music video, played backwards (or if the lyrics don't match the video's visuals, a "literal music video").
62	* Video game cutscenes.
63	* Videos of alleged ghost, Bigfoot, and UFO sightings (that usually end up being... say it with us and cringe... [[JumpScare screamers]]). A helpful tip: turn your volume off and read the comments before watching these videos.
64	* Videos of amateur performances of everything from covers of popular songs to performances of original songs written by whoever is singing them, pre-taped videos of everything from school plays to dance recitals, etc.
65	* Videos of animals being cute.
66	* Videos of animals being terrifying.
67	* Videos of people making stunts with skateboards, snowboards, parkour, or other extreme sports.
68	* Instruction videos of everything from making push-ups to sewing Victorian-era ball gowns.
69	* Videos with the mondegreens {{invoked}} of what the words sound like to an English (or any other language) speaker.
70	* Videos wherein the author rants on some topic of religion, evolution vs. creationism, or politics.
71	* Videos promoting UsefulNotes/MisplacedNationalism and insulting a country or ethnicity, or just [[FlameWar comments doing the same thing]] on a video that isn't promoting Misplaced Nationalism and just happens to be about a particular country.
72	* Videos of people doing really stupid things.
73	* [[ReactionShot Reaction videos]], either of [[ShockSite something very nasty]], or popular TV shows. Yes, there is an entire [=YouTube=] genre of watching people watch TV. Arguably the most famous of these are reactions to the Red Wedding from ''Series/GameOfThrones'', where fans who've read [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]] had set up hidden cameras to record their friends and family's horrified reactions to the massacre.
74	* Videos by fans, employees, and even '''creators''' of animatronic pizza parlor characters like CEC Florida, Big Cheese, therockafire, and Bren Bill.
75	* Videos by the Seven Awesome Kids channels.
76	* Cringe compilations.
77	* Videos of politicians saying things they just went on record as denying having ever said.
78	* Videos of songs being performed in music-composing programs, including ''Mario Paint Composer''.
79	* Videos of tourists driving or walking through foreign cities. Alternately, people conducting drives or walkthroughs of their hometown.
80	* Videos ultimately complaining about [=YouTube=]'s copyright policy, or how to bypass it.
81	* Videos labeled "Bloopers" that turn out to be ''fanmade'' bloopers.
82	* Videos redirecting you to a website saying that you can watch the video there - that will force you to make an account, take a survey, never allow you to watch the video, and ''send you spam''.
83	* Videos that have virus links. There's always ''one'' up. Most notably the spam you've been seeing on your Facebook profile, disguised as a link to something "shocking!". Either that, or it's a video saying it's the full movie of a film still in theaters when it's really just a screencap or at most a trailer, with virus links in the description.
84	* Videos of kids throwing temper tantrums when asked to go off the computer and leave their online games.
85	* Short video clips of rage scenes (Such as Penn Jillette's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvPkOUhaI YOU NEED TO SHUT THE (BLEEP) UP!]].) Quite often used for ''A Message to (Bad Users/Trolls/Cyberbullies).''
86	* Videos of ''adults'' throwing temper tantrums when someone goes around and starts [[{{Griefer}} sabotaging games]].
87	* ''WebVideo/BarneyBunch'' videos that never seem to get flagged.
88	* Haul videos, wherein somebody displays and discusses the items that she/he bought during a recent shopping trip. These items can be anything from designer shoes to dental floss.
89	** "Unboxing" videos which go beyond "someone taking something out of a box" through "video dissertation on the quality of the packaging" to "video ''rant'' about the quality of the packaging."
90	* "X does Y for Z minutes", basically a particular scene looped around for a few minutes.
91	* A cell-phone shot video.
92	* Episodes of short-running TV series most people didn't even know existed.
93	* Videos with [[TheGrotesque deformed people or animals]], either real or a SpecialEffectsFailure. Comments will usually have people wondering how they ended up on the weird side of [=Youtube=] again.
94	* [[LoopholeAbuse Mirrored copies]] of videos taken down for unknown terms of use violations (most often false-flagged DMCA notices).
95	* JustForFun/{{Caramelldansen Vid}}s
96	* 10-hour loops of memetic songs such as JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} and Trololo.
97	* 10-hour loops of anything in general. Why not enjoy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7jcRCIIkY Space Core]] for 10 hours?
98	* Music that's extended to insane lengths.
99	* WebAnimation/SuperMario64Bloopers.
100	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' music remixes ranging from Music/{{IOSYS}}-style [[QuirkyWork denpa]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6aywyjNKTY J-Metal in English]].
101	* Combat footage from [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq and Afghanistan]], mostly from helmet cameras.
102	* [[InsistentTerminology Defense]]-related[[labelnote:Note]]and by "defense," we actually mean "military"[[/labelnote]] news channels that frequently use [[ComputerVoice voice synthesizers]] to narrate the news--usually resulting in awkward pronunciations of military terminology/jargon, acronyms, names, or awkward pauses between lines.
103	* News channels that may or may not be of dubious veracity or authenticity--[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] are not even satirical news shows similar to ''Series/TheDailyShow''. These channels would also have clickbait-y headlines and videos that are copied (usually without permission) from legitimate television news outlets while passing themselves off as a legit news channel.
104	* Amateur DIY videos revealing the "secret trick" to taking the radio out of an '88 Dodge or repacking the CV joints on a 2003 Honda with titles like "taking the [thingamabob] out of your [whatsit]".
105	* Self-proclaimed [[ShakingTheRump "booty shaking"]] videos. Music/MileyCyrus might have made "twerk" a household word in 2013, but the phenomenon got started on [=YouTube=] long before the term itself was in common parlance.
106	* Platform/{{Vine}} Compilations. Usually of all the above.
107	* Fetish porn, which gets around Youtube's policies by not showing sex or nudity. This includes official previews from professional sites, pirated full videos from said sites (until they're taken down), and amateur videos. Note this also means that completely innocuous videos that happen to be "useful" are also shared among fetish communities. That funny video of your ticklish friend laughing through a pedicure? [[RuleThirtyFour Someone's masturbating to it as we speak]].
108	* Lots and lots of [[TopTenList Top 10 Lists]], most likely by [=WatchMojo=] or one of their imitators.
109	* Good old fashioned [[http://youtu.be/Fd9CxIlkjpk Paint Drying]].
110	* Animation memes.
111	** Cringe compilations of animation memes, usually featuring ones of very amateurish quality.
112	* {{Dramatic Reading}}s of copy[=/=][[CreepyPasta creepypastas]], greentexts, etc, sometimes with sound effects. These are referred to as "storytimes."
113	* Animated videos where the narrator talks about their life or opinions. These YouTubers are sometimes said to be part of "the animation squad".
114	* Sponsor segments... but only the ones that essentially tell viewers to enter the same code twice. There's already too much of the regular kind.
115	* [=Loudwire=] countdowns of metal + rock moments. In addition, go into the comments for one of these videos and take a drink for every comment bashing pop music or any comment along the lines of "[metal singer]: [does something along the lines of TheShowMustGoOn in the face of an onstage mishap, often risking their health & safety in the process]; [pop singer]: [ends the show for their own health & safety]" (screw it, the ambulance can't save you).
116	* Removal of features for no good reason, despite community backlash.
117	* [=YouTube's=] incredibly senile and troll-like abuse of content makers and viewers.
118	* COPPA, whether something got marked for kids, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids often incorrectly]], or there's a disclaimer that the video/channel is not intended solely for kids.
119	* A Platform/YouTube critic makes a video about how ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' is an insult to Tolkien.
120	* A negative review of whatever animated product everyone is picking on which features at least one of the subsequent things:
121	** Either the title or the thumbnail contains a word like "trash", "disaster" or "pathetic"
122	** The thumbnail contains the Website/RottenTomatoes rating, [[ViewersAreMorons in case someone thought this is actually a good product and the reviewer is exaggerating]].
123	** The thumbnail makes the main character look stupid by either picking the least flattering frame or editing the picture to make them wall-eyed.
124	** The thumbnail has the reviewer's cartoon avatar facepalming or making some other distressed face.
125	* Railfanning videos which involve the uploader filming trains of any kind. Take a double shot if it's a foamer gushing about said train's paint job or type of horn.
126	* An inappropriate child-oriented video from a YouTubeKidsChannel. Down the whole bottle if it's part of the recent resurgence.
127	* A Platform/GoAnimate grounded/punishment day/dead meat video. Take a double shot if it involves WesternANimation/{{Caillou}} or WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer. Down the whole bottle if the parents punish the child for an absurdly long time.
128	* Roller-coaster POV videos. Take a double shot if the theme park employees catch onto the uploader for breaking the "no phones" rule.
129	* If you encounter the Offline error on the mobile app, down your glass due to its nature.

Context DrinkingGame / YouTube