Dissing Amber Heard again cos it's fun and I loathe her for the damage she's wrought on *real* victims / survivors

DISCLAIMER: everyone has been doing the dog/bee thing so no claims any of the following is an original thought

Note: This is for the lols

For anyone who missed the memo and this sounds entirely too ludicrous to be true...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7TX_W1nC6s

[Time stamp 0:48-0:50 Amber says UNDER OATH that her dog stepped on a bee and pulls a stupid face. For the record the owner of the 'trashed' trailer testified the 'damages' consisted of one (1) broken light fitting valued at $62]

"My dog stepped on a bee"

and got bit by a flea

Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea

Johnny Depp hit me

but I didn't flee

my nose was broken but I didn't take a selfie

got r*ped with a bottle but didn't go to A&E

or a GP 

I sh*t on the bed but didn't wee

I'm the princess and the pea

gave me a bruise on the knee

but no you can't see...

He lost one but I lost three

sux no one believes me

I rate the jury D

why am I even free?

A great vegan scrambled egg alternative is ackee

For anyone who missed the memo and this sounds entirely too ludicrous to be true...

https://twitter.com/todayshow/status/1536677940213297155

[Amber Heard claims in an interview that Johnny Depp 'convinced the world' he was, like, ACTUALLY Edward Scissorhands (1990)?! He's a great actor but that is seriously pushing it...]

"Says ... the lawyer ... for the man who convinced the world he had scissors for fingers?"

...the man who convinced the world he was eaten by a bed (Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984)

Given this was his FIRST ROLE I want an explanation as to how he was alive enough the rest of his career?

...the man who convinced the world the film-maker Ed Wood (1994; 1824-1978), policeman Frederick Abberline (From Hell, 2001; 1843-1929), author J. M. Barrie (Finding Neverland, 2004; 1860-1937), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (The Libertine, 2004; 1647-1680), gangsters John Dillinger (Public Enemies, 2009; 1903-1934) and Whitey Bulger (Black Mass, 2015; 1929-2018) and POTUS Donald Trump (Donald Trump's The Art Of The Teal: The Movie, 2016; b. 1946) ARE ALL THE SAME PERSON

I'm sure I've left out other biographical characters but this lil list would make him (a) 375 years old and counting (b) at least 4 different people simultaneously in the 1920s.

...the man who convinced the world he runs a candy factory full of slaves (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005)

the man who convinced the world he was a throat-slitting barber (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2007)

OMG is THAT why she gifted him the engraved knife???

...the man who convinced the world he was a CGI chameleon (Rango, 2011)

...the man who convinced the world he was a vampire (Dark Shadows, 2012)

...the man who convinced the world he was a wizard (Fantastic Beasts, 2016 & 2018)

...the man who convinced the world he was a pirate (POTC, 2003-2017)

Actually, scrub that one. He IS Captain Jack Sparrow.

CLICKBAIT!

Just gonna have a short rant about YouTubers and clickbait.

My own YT channel is really low quality clips and one takes cos I wouldn't have a clue how to edit or anything and I don't care cos it's just like where I put my video diary stuff. But even as an absolute nobody with just 15 subscribers I would never use clickbait titles.

By clickbait I mean titles / title cards that are irrelevant to the video. In other words LIES. 

It's one thing to title a video "I might have cancer" if you're sick and getting tests run. Although, in my mind, it's another thing entirely if you're just going for your regular pap smear and there's no reason to suspect you might get an abnormal result. Even if the testing isn't specifically FOR cancer it's not entirely unreasonable in many scenarios to FEAR having cancer...when I supposedly had IBS (but actually my symptoms were lactose intolerance) I feared it was bowel cancer due to family history. It's worse still if at no point whatsoever do you mention illness, testing, cancer in that video. THAT is what I mean by 'clickbait'.

It harms the audience who sat through your video (that was maybe about going grocery shopping or something just as irrelevant) only to realise it was bullshit; worse, it harms other YouTubers who make genuine videos and won't get the clicks because people assume they're lying too.

Today I stumbled across this video from November 2016:

"LAST DAY WITH BOOBS" by Channon Rose Vlogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxAv_HwYZb0&t=406s

A viewer commented "I thought you were getting a mastectomy or something" and another viewer replied with the single word "Clickbait". But it wasn't!

The video is a vlog made the day before she went for breast reduction surgery. That's not clickbait. Just because viewers misinterpreted the title and ASSUMED what surgery she was getting isn't her fault. Also, the fact that the video isn't entirely about her upcoming surgery doesn't make it clickbait either. In fact, she didn't actually need to mention her surgery at all because the title firmly asserts the subject matter to be about what she was doing the day before.

Then there's this video from yesterday:

"ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON TWITTER..." by WatersWife Vlogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6PfWo2Lm8

It's a live-stream of over an hour and I haven't watched the whole thing yet but there's a hugely relevant bit within the first ten minutes. She'd called out another vlogging family via Twitter (hence HER video's title) for their repeated use of clickbait, especially misleading references to adoption. I am utterly baffled as to how people can defend that family - especially the mother of the baby they've falsely claimed to be adopting. I don't have a maternal instinct to my name but no way in hell is ANYONE going to use my child like that!

By the way, when Aimee says that some of her video titles are "a little clickbaity" she's just using the most eye-catching element of her video, even if it's a minor element of that video. I've watched most of her videos and I haven't seen one that was misleading, deliberately or otherwise. There's nothing wrong with trying to grab people's attention...unless you're crying wolf to do so. And we all know how that story ended up!

I am just saddened that people don't have a better sense of ethics. Either for their own behaviour or their expectations of others. One thing I really love about Aimee Waters and her channel is how genuine she seems to be. Her opinions are carefully considered, her arguments are well balanced and she has great integrity.

Of course perception comes into it. People have even accused Aimee of using her son's death for views which I believe is harshly unfair. She went through a terrible experience and chose to share it for awareness. By sharing Beckett's story she is helping people suffering similar losses.

Anyway, that's my two-cents' worth.

Just say no to clickbait.