<![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> The video is accessed automatically every time someone starts YouTube from an IPhone. They had meant to link the commercial video but got this one instead.

jinvestigator

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> I love it, but mostly because somebody associated with the band has a really big botnet. Go botnet! Go botnet!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> Ears bleeding...eyes swelling...head spinning.. I need to quit teh internets for a little bit.

Joafu

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> I dugg it.

sarahm

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> No one has noted that this song was the first song/music used in the IPod Touch launch and advertising. Any connection?

Cattra

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> @BLAKELEY: no, the bigger question is how people can listen to this crap.

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> Evolution of Dance has been up a lot longer which could explain it's lack of comments. It's my guess is that most of these views are from embeds elsewhere, thus people wouldn't rate it.

Example This video has 874,931 clicks from:

[hi5.qloud.com]

When Gawker was using video people always thought we were "cheating" the system, how could videos get thousands of views in just minutes people would say? It was because we placed it on Gizmodo, that's how. It's very difficult to fake views and I've found YouTube is pretty accurate in counting them.

The bigger question is why hasn't it been pulled yet for copyright violation?

BLAKELEY

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> I bet they were banking on everyone's curiosity by watching it to see what the top video was on Youtube to fill in the mis-matched ratio. PWnED!

mach1andy

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> Comments are a indicator as well..

Evolution of dance has over 100k in comments.. and this one has about 1/20th that.. a substantial amount of those comments being "what the fuck, how did this get so many views"

The rating is an indicator as well.. 3/5 star rating.. thats pretty low when compared to the other top 10 videos.

Whocares

]]> <![CDATA[Most popular YouTube video cheated its way to the top]]> Nobody cheats my boy Judson and lives!

raincoaster

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