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Name: Anonymous 2017-11-11 5:13

Since every other discussion seems to be getting derailed with Hooktube/Anti-hooktube flaming. So type away! I'll start:

Anti-hooktubers, why don't you like Hooktube? Are you incredulous to the legitimacy of such a project? Or do you think it's unethical? Or are you frustrated that there are people using Hooktube and not looking for a true, viable alternative to YouTube?

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-14 19:42

>>40

did
past tense

does
present tense

Learn the difference.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-15 0:59

>>41
nitpicking grammar
Back to plebbit, mr officer

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-15 4:30

>>42
He's making the distinction because >>23 literally misinterpreted the meaning of his post because he couldn't distinguish past and present tense. Jesus Christ, for someone who's posting on a textboard, you seriously lack reading comprehension.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-15 4:59

>>43
Actually, in context, the misinterpretation appears to have been figurative.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-15 8:34

>>44
How so?

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-16 11:14

>>42
Whom are you quoting?

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-17 21:27

bump

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-18 0:31

HookTube was down earlier today.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-18 0:59

>>48
Nikita DDOS'd it because he was sick of seeing it here

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-18 8:09

To put it in the frankest of terms, my dear OP, you are not applying any brains. Words, in English pray believe, have more meaning than simply that which is there in a Dictionary. Context matters, context implies. From context you must infer, through the application of brains. I'm going to sage, but please consider this post a gift of education.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 7:32

I prefer youtube-dl.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 8:17

I don't like it because it's mostly used by /pol/ros who can't stay on their containment imagereddits and spam the whole internet with their bullshit

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 8:35

>>52
I'm really starting to wonder if you grasp the way /lounge/ works. You'd think with unlimited Internet access you would be able to lurk long enough to know you'd only embarrass yourself posting leftist psychobabble.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 8:59

>>53
political thought is not limited to leftism and /pol/, retard

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 9:09

maybe ur rigt Edited on 20/11/2017 09:11.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 9:16

>>55
nice dubs though

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 10:30

>>53
explain to me how /lounge/ works, kind sir

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-20 16:01

HookTube is used for more than just political content.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-21 2:14

>>54
What the hell does that have to do with anything?

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-21 11:43

>>59
the implication that only leftists dislike /pol/ shitting up the entire internet

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-21 13:29

>>60
Oh, weird. For a second I thought that I had made that post. The word "psychobabble"'s been getting thrown around so much on here I didn't realize that >>53 was using the word unironically, although I haven't ruled out trolling. I literally mistook it for my own post, because they all look the same.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-23 23:24

Progrider, circa 2016: "Fuck off with linking to YouTube."
dis.tinychan.org, circa 2017: "Directly link to YouTube, asshole."
I can't win with you contrarians.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-23 23:42

>>61
I made that post but was in a hurry so I just copy pasted the beginning of some other post and end of another post and added some stuff about leftists in the middle. That's probably why you got confused -- one or both of the posts I copied from was made by you originally.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-23 23:48

>>19
Why would you come to a Textboard and watch videos in the first place? Try r/video.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 21:41

The admin of this site is really apathetic.
Why doesn't s/he stop the two guys who keep spamming hooktube and youtube links??

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 21:53

I only post the HookTube link once for those who don't want to click on a direct YouTube link, if the guy posts a link to YouTube again in some retarded attempt to start a flame war over it, I don't oblige.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 23:10

>>66
Obviously he's thinking about the guy that also posts a link back when someone posts a link to YouTube.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 23:11

>>66
Most probably it is one person posting both the hooktube and youtube links over and over again.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 23:44

>>64
r/video
NO THANK YOU

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 7:37

>>66
There is literally no fucking reason why you should spam the Hooktube link if there's already a YouTube link. All you have to do is change "YouTube" to "Hooktube" in the URL, you fucking moron. You're not doing anyone a service, you're just annoying everyone. Same with the YouTube spammer. Fuck both of you. At best, you're fighting over this petty thing under the facade of "helping" people in order to fill the void in your depraved ego, and the irony of it all is it just makes everyone hate you and HookTube and YouTube even more than we already did.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 7:45

>>70
I actually find it convenient when the hooktube alt link is posted in tandem with youtube links. I always click the hooktube one if it's there but otherwise would never click the youtube link then change youtube to hooktube in the url as the page loads. So it does its job and makes everybody happy. you on the other hand are butthurt.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 7:50

>>71
Or you could just use a userscript, diot.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 7:56

>>71
What you're saying is that you would rather be spoonfed at the expense of others than do the minimum amount of effort necessary to simply help yourself, even when there are several userscripts officially endorsed by HookTube that would do all the work on your behalf.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 7:57

>>70
Posting a link once is not spam. If you don't want to use HookTube, just ignore the link and use the original YouTube link instead. Don't get mad about it and link to YouTube directly again out of spite. It's quite a useful thing and people like >>7,12 have benefited from its use. Seriously, calm your tits.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 8:04

>>73
There's also the thing that if it were never linked here, people wouldn't know about it and wouldn't even be aware of the userscripts to begin with. That's also why I link to HookTube so people can discover it. You're the only one here right now who is upset about it.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 10:57

>>74,75
Just because you refuse to acknowledge spam as spam doesn't make it anything other than spam. You're implying that the only way to spread awareness about HookTube is to actively derail threads knowing fully well you're going to instigate a flame war. You can claim otherwise, but there's physical, consistent proof that what you're doing has repercussions beyond what you claim, and if you aren't aware of that, you're either very, very stupid or lying to remove all responsibility from yourself, which is selfish and stupid and--most especially--not beneficial to HookTube's image. And you're also implying that I'm the one posting the reactionary YouTube links, which is absolutely untrue. There are more than two people facilitating this stupid conflict, and that includes yourself. You. You're just as responsible.

In reality, you can promote Hooktube more effectively and passively by simply using a Hooktube link when you have something to share. By actively accosting people, you're inflating your ego while simultaneously doing more harm than good by making HookTube look like the kind of site shallow contrarians share just to annoy people--because that's exactly what you are, an annoying contrarian. And you can't pretend like you're doing any good for HookTube, because you're not. You should know that, but you pretend not to, out of sheer ignorance or blatant vanity. You're a hypocrite. If you care about HookTube's popularity--stupid thing to be invested in, by the way, if you haven't already read the thread (which you probably haven't)--you won't respond to this post. You won't try to rationalize your hypocrisy. Learn that sometimes, to do more good, you need to step down from the fucking pedestal. I'm only criticizing you because I myself use HookTube, so don't pretend like I'm some kind of troll, either.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 11:03

Before you started correcting other people's YouTube links to HookTube links, /lounge/ was for a brief time 90% HookTube, because people learned by imitation. By turning HookTube, a simple utility that did so little it was hardly worth even acknowledging, into the object of debate, you effectively ruined any chance of HookTube gaining dominance over /lounge/. You. You did this. The YouTube spammer was simply the logical conclusion of your actions--inevitable contrarianism and skepticism towards unwarranted harassment.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 17:56

>>76
Just because you refuse to acknowledge spam as spam doesn't make it anything other than spam.
You can declare the sky is green, doesn't make it so.
You're implying that the only way to spread awareness about HookTube is to actively derail threads knowing fully well you're going to instigate a flame war.
As I said before in >>66 I only post the link to HookTube once, if some asshat gets mad and posts the direct link to YouTube AGAIN out of spite, that's his problem. I don't continue to do so because that's just going to escalate into a pointless flame war.
And you're also implying that I'm the one posting the reactionary YouTube links, which is absolutely untrue.
The fact that you're going out of your way to "scold" people for posting an alternative link to YouTube leads me to suspect it so (keyword: suspect. I, of course, don't know for certain). It's not that far of a stretch.
I'm only criticizing you because I myself use HookTube, so don't pretend like I'm some kind of troll, either.
Okay, but I've also had people directly link to YouTube when I posted a HookTube link. I don't get mad and bent out of shape about it.

>>77
you effectively ruined any chance of HookTube gaining dominance over /lounge/. You. You did this. The YouTube spammer was simply the logical conclusion of your actions
Wrong. HookTube was hated from day one by some people. First, the claim was "HookTube is stealing!" then that didn't work. Next was "HookTube uses JavaScript!" That also didn't work. Now HookTube haters just link directly back to YouTube. That's fine. Nobody forces you to use it, but no need to post the direct YouTube link for a second time when the original link is already posted.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 19:13

>>78
B-but he started it! It's not my fault! I'm not being an asshole, he's an asshole because he's doing the exact same thing I'm doing!!!

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 20:37

>>79
Whom are you quoting?

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