After Andy Baio called “
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To view the link you have to Register, there’s been renewed interest in
To view the link you have to Register. The video is still online at 91,195,785 views and counting, but it’s
To view the link you have to Register. Creator Clarus Bartel
To view the link you have to Register, but fair or foul, he should get a job offer or three out of it.
YouTube knows that tales of fraudulent stats can and will scare away advertisers. But hey, Google’s been battling click-fraud and link-spamming for years; the networks sell time based on numbers from sweeps months (when they trot out their best — and sleaziest); and more than a few fishwraps have been known to boost circulation in less-than-honorable ways. As John Lawrence explains to Roddy Piper in
They Live, “It’s business, that’s all it is.”
What you will find atop the leaderboard is, well, advertising. “It’s like low-quality MTV from the days when they showed music videos,” Marshall Kirkpatrick
To view the link you have to Register. What sneaked through the commercial cracks, and how (besides
To view the link you have to Register)? At number twelve, a C-Pop video with karaoke subtitles titled
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To view the link you have to Register! Wait a second, that’s just another commercial…
At #10, between Sean Kingston and Rihanna? A laughing baby! What could possibly be cuter?
To view the link you have to Register has bested dozens, if not hundreds, of laughing babies with 39,957,827 views– maybe the little tyke is laughing at the pretenders in the “related videos” sidebar, with their piddling seven-figure view counts. But wait, Kazakhstan’s
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To view the link you have to Register from Kjell- ke Andersson, who posted
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To view the link you have to Register. Is a laughing baby being used to promote a bank in the former Soviet Union?
Currently at number three,
To view the link you have to Register is actually a beautifully produced short film with an
To view the link you have to Register. And it is in Spanish, the second-most popular language worldwide (ahead of English, but behind Mandarin), so that’s something. But even if the 62,531,601 views were achieved
au naturel, the spammers have taken over in the comments. I’d dig further, but I was won over by the video’s “copyleft” tag and I’m already worried I’ll have nightmares of Avril Lavigne and a creepy baby doing the twist while laughing at me from a motivational poster tonight.
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I hope they don't ban the GF video 
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