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This basically sounds like blocking users from posting on your videos and deleting comments – both of which users were able to do before the update.

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This is what most YouTube users take issue with.
Yes, YouTube, most recent might not always be most relevant, but that doesn’t mean a user will find a jokey comment by a famous YouTuber relevant.

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In order to post comments in the new YouTube comment section, you will have to make a Google+ account. While this is not difficult at all, some people simply refuse to do it.

(First post in 8 years by a YouTube co-founder and owner of the first ever uploaded YouTube video)

People whose comments you’ll be able to see:
-Celebrities (those not limited by the Internet, as well as people relevant on YouTube or Google+)
-Random comments that got up-voted by people with a huge amount of Google+ friends (read on)
-???

This is what this basically means:

Unless you have 90% of Google+ users in your “Circles” (aka friends list), your comment will most probably not get noticed by anyone (unless you reply to one of the top comments) – this goes for all the popular videos with a high number of comments.

Is YouTube trying to say you’re not important and that your opinions don’t matter? Probably not. However, this is still not a good system.

A bit off-topic: it is highly unlikely Justin Timberlake will be registering a Google+ account in order to post a comment, when he owns an entire social network – MySpace.

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A comedic spin on a line from his famous song “Lose Yourself”:

The soul’s escaping through this hole that is gaping

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Tags are the base form of graffiti. They’re the easiest, cleanest, fastest way to put your name out there.
It all started with a tag, “TAKI 183”, written all over New York city.

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A New York graffiti legend. In fact, his interview is featured in the beginning of this song’s video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAtWgWZFvrY&hd=1

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Every writer knows, or should know, he probably won’t ever get payed for his work. So the only reason he does illegal graffiti is to be famous (“get up”) in the graffiti/underground community.

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In NYC, rooftops that are near the subway tracks get a lot of attention from graffiti writers, due to them being visible from the subway cars that go by every day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0DspulmlY

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Stealing (or “racking”) paint is a big part of graffiti history.
Back in the day, when graffiti started, it was a rule that you were a good writer only if you stole your paint. That rule almost no longer exists, due to higher security and writers owning graffiti shops (it would be a dick move stealing from them, plus they always have cheaper paint).

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