News - YouTube video response facility will be dropped next month

[HEXUS]

Only four in a million YouTube viewers actually bothered to watch such videos.

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[Output]

Most supposed video responses do seem to be obvious spam attempts to get views from a more popular video, so the lack of clicks doesn't really surprise me, and I don't blame them for deciding to remove it instead.

[Jingee]

I dont blame them for getting rid. Who cares what someone else thinks about what someone thinks in a video response? Watching one is enough. Especially when people do video responses to completely redundant videos.

[sirtrouserpress]

I never found them in any way related or in anyway a response, probably for the best...

[tealsuki]

There's the one-in-a-million chance that the video responses actually contain related content, but that can be remedied simply by asking the uploader to include a link or something. Good on them for cutting the fat though.

[ZaO]

I hope this affects the reply girls in a very negative way.

[Jonj1611]

Is that the actual design or does their office in the top picture look half finished?

[Funkstar]

Is that the actual design or does their office in the top picture look half finished?

Design feature, there is no good reason you would build a stud wall like that otherwise.

[remconieuw]

i think the uploader of the original video should be in charge of wich video response ends up being underneath his video

[Jonj1611]

Why would that be a good idea?

Then the original up-loader can pick and choose what responses are there which may be biased toward whatever the original video was about.

[nyoron]

Makes sense to drop it if hardly anyone uses it, I've never personally clicked any response vids myself.