Karl Franks
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- No Twist and Pulse please just shut the fuck up
- "Twist and Pulse" = "white people dance to dubstep"
- Davis is missing some great dubstep
- Twist and Pulse, please fuck off
- Are "twist and pulse"'s talent just rapping???
- MAINSTREAM AUTOTUNED MUSIC GO!!!!!!!
- "Raise the Sky" is possibly the shittest song i have had the displeasure of hearing
- Isn't "labrinth" famous or something? The program says they're apparently playing here
- »3 for a tiny portion of chips. Welcome to Cameron's britain.
- Nationalism, nationalism EVERYWHERE
- Sat in Worcester cricket ground at the olympic torch thing
- Geography exam went really well :)
- I swear davis has been to the toilet three times now, little worried
- Yaz got me honestly the best present ever: a Karl and Yasmin in the Morning mug (she got one too)
- "_ posted on your timeline" isn't going to get annoying...
- TWO EXAMS TODAY!!! :D
- @yasminrjones "I HAVE BOOBS I HAVE BOOBS I HAVE BOOBS JIGGLY JIGGLY BOOBS MMMM BOOBS I HAVE BOOBS I HAVE BOOBS I HAVE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS"
- "RETURN FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!" *throws journal into the sea*May 23, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I want to get one of those "Wreck This Journal" things and do a montage video of doing things to it like burning itMay 23, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Someone’s uploaded the entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film on YouTube
*waves goodbye to productivity*
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING. read this. I started following this girl and her whole dash ended up these. And her last post. I can’t even say words. Anons took her life. If that okay with you, then carry on with your day. If you agree this is unacceptable and okay, then reblog and spread the word. What you say can actually change a persons life! So help out
the worst thing is that i bet a lot of those anons were the same person just saying this shit over and over again.
people are assholes.
no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
all of these people are fucking cowards. they hind behind anonymity to make you feel bad because they are too chicken to do it to your face. that makes them cowards. it makes them deplorable. you stand above them, always.
don’t let cowards dictate your life. don’t let people who can’t even face you because they are scared and cowardly make you feel like you are worth any less than them, any less than anyone.
fuck them. you’re worth 10 of them.
And yet half the time these type of posts are fake as shit
Who’s worse? The people who anonymously lead people to suicide (if you’re getting anon hate TURN OFF ANON QUESTIONS, plus who actually listens to shit people say online?)
Or the people who post this fake shit just to get Notes, or Likes?
“Your OWLs aren’t good enough and you didn’t even do your NEWTs Harry, why are you even applying, also where’s your UKCAT, and your volunteering and your work experience oh you have none goodbye.”
On my most recent video I saw a whole ton of comments from people saying “I never see pre-rolls on Vlogbrothers videos because I have AD BLOCK installed.” Well, two problems here.
- No one sees pre-rolls on vlogbrothers videos because we don’t run them
- I am not sure how I feel about Ad Blockers and I wish you would consider your decision more carefully, especially your apparent desire to share the world.
If everyone was like you and used ad blockers, there would be no Freddie Wong videos to watch. There would be no YouTube. There would be no Google or GMail or Facebook or any of it. If everyone used ad block, the internet would be made of things that suck and things that cost money.
And so when you say to the world “HEY PONCES! WTF AREN’T YOU USING AD BLOCK! SUCKERS!” What you’re saying is “Let’s all work together to destroy the internet.”
The only reason Ad Block works for you is that most people don’t use it. It is in your best interest to keep Ad Block quiet and not let anyone know about it. Spend like 13 seconds thinking through a world where Ad Block gets installed on a substantial number of browsers in the world:
Advertisers call up platforms (Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc) and say “We aren’t going to pay you for advertisements if no one sees them.”
The platforms freak out and spend a huge amount of time and money creating Ad Block Blockers. Maybe they partner with Mozilla. Maybe with the US Government. Maybe they create another technological solution. In any case, afterward the internet is clunkier and maybe even less free than beforehand.
Ad Blockers counter by working around the work-arounds.
Advertisers still pull back funds, the internet gets worse. Less money is spent on making the internet cool and interesting, more money is spend on trying to defeat Ad Blockers.
At the end of the day, your attempts to remove some pixels that were off in the corner of the screen where you probably would never have seen them anyway have made the whole world a less awesome place.
I understand the desire to work-around a system that annoys you. But I do not understand the apparent inability of some people to think their decisions through to their logical conclusion.
***FOOTNOTE ON TUMBLR***
You may notice that Tumblr neither costs money nor sucks. However, before Tumblr got it’s most recent round of venture capital funding, you may also remember how it was crashing 20 or 30 times per day. The funding that made it possible for Tumblr to stay online consistently would not have come in if the people with that money did not believe that someday Tumblr would have some kind of path to profitability…and the clearest of those paths is through advertising.
I’m reblogging this again because 90% of the comments in my new video seem to brag about AdBlock as if it’s some easy solution to the complicated role that corporations play in facilitating and problematizing the relationship between people who make stuff on the Internet and people who enjoy that stuff.
In fact, AdBlock does no such thing. It mostly only hurts the creators of the stuff you like, because it doesn’t prevent YouTube from collecting valuable information about you that they then use to grow and improve their company. If everyone—or even 20% of people—used AdBlock, we could not afford to ignore our other jobs to make regular vlogbrothers videos, let alone create expensive educational content like crashcourse.
I don’t know what the solution to this complicated problem is, but it sure as hell isn’t AdBlock.
The thing about AdBlock is: if more and more people use it, surely that’s sending a message to advertisers saying “your adverts are crap, think again”
Nobody I know ever clicks on adverts, I certainly don’t. However sites like tumblr appear to be doing a much more interesting take on advertising through things like the promoted posts
Traditional adverts do not work online, people need to rethink advertising, and if the only way we can convince them to do that is through Adblock, then I see no issue
INSPECTOR PANCAKESNaming happens to be a pretty big deal in my family. I’m sure most of you remember that my great uncle has named two of his dogs Newt after Newt Gingrich and I’m pretty sure you guys remember that Hank Green named his album Ellen Hardcastle, after me. My grandmother wanted to name me Crutchfield…
Ugh apparently for the Queen’s Jubilee my street are having a street party
Oh yay
I really don’t want to go, since I hate my neighbours, they’re the most boring people I know
I hate socialising anyway, but socialising with people I hate is worse
Not confused at all why my Dash is permanantly stuck on showing posts from an hour ago
NOT AT ALL
By the way, I know none of you are actually interested in watching On The Verge, but they did do an interview with Marco Arment who was one of the co-founders of tumblr
- JESUUUUUUUUUUUUS LOVES MARIJUAAAAAAAANA
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- What's your dream date? Who would it be with and where would you go?Karen Gillan. And straight to my bed.Asked by Formspring Mar 09, 12
- If you have a secret that you just can't keep, who do you tell it to?TwitterAsked by Formspring Mar 07, 12
- What TV show is must-watch TV for you right now? Do you watch it on live TV or online?New Girl, it's brilliant (and the character of Jess is basically a adult version of my friend Ellen)Asked by Formspring Feb 17, 12
- What's the best song to listen to on a Monday morning when you need to get your week going?Either, "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" by Coldplay Or "Niggas In Paris" by Kanye West and Jay-ZAsked by Formspring Feb 14, 12
- What's the last TV show you watched? What did you like about it?Parks and Recreation. It's simply amazingAsked by Formspring Jan 26, 12
- Who is the last person you IMed with? What did you chat about?Err, James Hands. I compared Yaz to "Charlie Sheen but short and with boobs"Asked by Formspring Dec 16, 11
- What's the last funny video you watched online?IT BE DIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQl6jeKVoLAAsked by Formspring Nov 15, 11
- What was your best subject at school?If you're going by grade wise, Chemistry, which is weird since I effing hate Chemistry. Oh well.Asked by Formspring Nov 11, 11
- last anon had a pointEh? The "Leave Hannah alone" one? Why thank you for agreeing with someone deciding to interfere with my life. I'll talk to Hannah if I want to, having an anonymous formspring message telling me not to won't stop me.Asked by Formspring Nov 09, 11
- Leave Hannah alone?Why thank you for your input. She's my friend. So fuck off.Asked by Formspring Nov 08, 11
- Karl, I'm sorry to say. No one wishes that....No one wishes it. It just happens you know?Asked by Robin Jones Nov 07, 11
- There is a Jack Pullin joke in there somewhere...There's also a Jack Pullin joke in Reeh. Oh wait, that's just his penis.Asked by Robin Jones Nov 07, 11
- Wowowo, don't cool story bro me! And it really wasn't me :LYeah. Sure. I'll Cool Story Bro you whenever I want to.Asked by Robin Jones Nov 07, 11
- Wow, Karl I agree with what you say for once! Also that wasn't me...Cool story bro. Also, I DON'T TRUST YOU.Asked by Robin Jones Nov 07, 11
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