"Avril is an anagram for viral".

[Banana Pancakes]

Avril is an anagram for "viral"


Mathew Ingram, today at 2:31 PM EDT

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"Some things achieve YouTube notoriety through some bizarre confluence of interest and desperation, like the six-second-long video clip of a startled prairie dog that took on epidemic proportions last year as a YouTube favourite known as the "Dramatic Chipmunk," which quickly gained more than 9 million views. Other things need a bit more, well... assistance. At the moment, a fan site devoted to Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne is pushing hard to get Avril's Girlfriend video to become the most-watched YouTube video ever with almost 90 million views -- and they are using some shady tactics to get there.
At the moment, the top spot at YouTube is held by Judson Laipply's iconic "Evolution of Dance" video clip, in which the comedian demonstrates all the popular dance styles of the past five decades in one short video clip. Why is it so popular? No one really knows. In any case, a fan site called Avril Bandaids is trying desperately to push its heroine's video higher than the Evolution of Dance -- and in order to do so, it is not only sending out emails to fans to get them to watch Avril's video some more, but has set up an automated YouTube-view-boosting site. The page automatically reloads Avril's video every 15 seconds, so as to rack up as many hits as possible, and a letter from the site advises fans to keep a browser window open all day with the page in it.
Will such tactics get Avril to the top spot? Perhaps -- although YouTube ireportedly tracks IP addresses so that repeated views don't skew its numbers. In any case, there are a number of other tricks that marketers use to try and boost their YouTube views, including signing up for hundreds of fake user accounts under different names, or using popular (but misleading) keywords. A marketing specialist named Dan Ackerman Greenberg -- who helped teach an entire course at Stanford about Facebook and online marketing techniques -- wrote a post for TechCrunch in which he detailed some of the tricks. There are even sites that claim to be able to boost YouTube views for a fee.
Even if Avril does get to number one most-viewed video, however, she will still fall short in some other areas on the site: while the video is currently number one "most discussed (music)" and number one "most viewed (music)" it's still only number four for "most discussed (all time)" and an underwhelming number 15 for "top favorites (all time)." Automated page refreshing isn't going to change those numbers. And who is the most discussed and top favourite of all time? No surprise, really: it's The Evolution of Dance."









Looks like you guys have a a long journey ahead to make Girlfriend reach the very top.

[Claudia]

Articles section.

And; shit.

[jacklavigne]

Bullshit

[Red Devil]

Exactly what I had been fearing this whole time. Sadly, this is just the beginning.

[gustavoi]

i saw this coming, they are just jealous. and avril already had a lot of views.

[[Avril Freakk.]]

Bullshit.

[sinead1989]

okay this may come across as stupid... but what is an ''anagram for viral'' suppose to mean.

[HeartAvril]

Originally Posted by sinead1989

okay this may come across as stupid... but what is an ''anagram for viral'' suppose to mean.

An amagram is when you get a word and with the same letters you form another. Like Avril... uou change the other of the letters and it becomes the word viral. He used that to imply that she's like a virus who infected her fans at the point of them doing things that are no right to make her be on top. I guess...

[rockpit]

Avril.
Lirva.
Ravil.
Viral.