In this video for YouTube Brandcast 2013, we wanted to celebrate our incredible community. Thank you for making YouTube what it is!

After The New York Times sat down with Jenna Marbles, she made a video answering some questions from the newspaper about her work, her puppies, and her “magical YouTube videos.”

If every teacher was as cool as this one, we’d all have straight A’s and actually learn something!

Top YouTube Comment: you guys realize we are watching a youtube video while watching a youtube video.

YouTube sensation Shoenice22 explains why he’s spent the past two years eating and drinking everything from sticks of deodorant, to tampons, to full bottles of grain alcohol.

I’ve always wanted to know why this guy does what he does.

And now I know.

The Official YouTube Channel of the NBA celebrates 1 Billion views. As a Thank You to the NBA’s fans, here is a video showcasing the best moments since the channel’s inception. 1 Billion is BIG! Thank you fans!

Idea Channel answers the question, “Is YouTube Making Us Smarter?”

Think about it?

You can find any material that your teacher is teaching on YouTube.

There is nothing more bad ass than Liam Neeson’s character from the film “Taken.” Seriously. Nothing. Unfortunately, Neeson’s portrayal is, shall we say, a little different than how an ordinary, real-life dad might handle his kids’ overseas abduction.

But it turns out that a real dad attempting to rescue his kid from international sex traffickers is exactly 10,000 times funnier than anything Liam Neeson has ever done or will do. We give you, “‘Taken’ with a Real Dad.”

Someone get this guy representation. We will pay good money to watch literally everything he does.

By now most of you have probably seen “The Dark Knight Rises” and, if not, you’re probably on your way to go see right about now.

But long ago, before Batman magically grew nipples and became associated with a tragic mass-shooting, he was a bit…well, different.

We give you: The Bat Flute.

No Complaints here, lovely view(s)

What would it be like if YouTube had an actual complaints department? Check out the hilarious video below to find out.

Long considered home to the worst commenters on the internet — racist, cruel, idiotic, nonsensical, and barely literate — YouTube is in the process of upgrading its comment system in order to better tame its most loathsome members.

It seems YouTube will be kicking the trolls to the curb. According to this article by Wired, YouTube is in the process of overhauling their comment system.

Word of the overhaul slipped out during the Q&A portion of a YouTube developer session at Google I/O, the annual developers conference from the video-upload hub’s owner, Google.

A member of the audience, which was stocked heavily with online video publishers, asked for advice on handling negative comments within his YouTube channel. Dror Shimshowitz, a YouTube “head of product,” replied that “comments are kind of the Wild West of video” and can be turned off. But Google doesn’t like it when people do that, he said, because it cuts off the community. So the company is working on fixing the system.

“We’re working on some improvements to the comment system, so hopefully we’ll have an update on that in the next few months,” Shimshowitz said.

There’s no question YouTube has its work cut out for it; its comment sections are widely regarded as cesspools. Meme harvester BuzzFeed called YouTube “a comment disaster on an unprecedented scale” with “the worst commenters on the internet;” online entrepreneur (and Wired contributor) Andy Baio called them “historically pretty bad;” and the online comic XKCD in 2006 imagined the moon landing being broadcast — and moronically heckled — on YouTube. “The internet has always had loud dumb people,” XKCD illustrator Randall Munroe wrote in an accompanying caption, ”but I’ve never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.”

In a way this is a bit sad, on occasion, reading some of the idiotic commentary was more entertaining than some of the videos that were posted.

Source & Image: Wired

Ever wonder why the views of some popular YouTube videos that went viral get stuck at 301 views? Besides YouTube coders trolling, this video gives a good explanation on why this occurs.