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It really puts me in a state of rage when after (or during now thanks to youtube's annoying video tooltips which cover half the video you're watching with utter shite) watching a youtube video the user will end with Don't forget to subscribe!1!!!oneoneone and litter this motto throughout the rest of the page. It's one thing to say Feel free to subscribe, though that's an arrogant thing to say, as though if you didn't we wouldn't be free to? Twat. But it's another thing to tell me not to forget to subscribe, if I don't subscribe it's not because I had a memory lapse immediately after watching your pile of shit video, it's because your pile of shit video was a pile of shit therefore subscribing is not something I want to do you pretentious twat.

People subscribe to users they have enjoyed the videos of so that they can be updated when they have new videos available, it is not there for any benefit of yours. Being asked or in most cases told to subscribe to a video make me want to even less, if you spent less time spamming your pages with pleas for people to subscribe and more time working on the videos themselves maybe you'd have better videos and more people would subscribe, win for all.

Another related issue is that of fan pages, more specifically those on social networking sites like facebook and myspace rather than more pathetic fan-owned websites for keanu reeves. You like Keanu Reeves? So you'll spend time and money on hosting a website and developing a community of other people who like him to sit around fapping over Speed when he tells everyone to move over to the this side of the bus to stop the bus from toppling despite this being proved on Mythbusters that it wouldn't have made any difference. Where's your Neo now bitch?
Back to my point of fan pages on social networking sites, they have similar traits to youtube subscriptions, I like Heroes so I'll just become a fan, 'nuff said. No, the people who make these pages have but one goal, get x members to join their fan page. It's fair enough if you create a page and it gets to 1,000,000 members and you fancy gloating about it, that's human nature but status updates every five minutes saying WE HAVE TO GET 10,000 NEW MEMBERS TODAY!11!11!!! really piss me off. You have to? Why exactly? Are you on a schedule for your fan page? You've planned how many people need to become a fan each day? Fuck you. What do you think will happen when you get to your goal number? Some form of smug induced enlightenment? Seriously, fuck you.
On top of that, some times the person running the fan page will post a status to get you to join other fan pages, not like "Hey, if you like Lost too you might want to join x". No, that's too much like what the social networking developers intended, what they will send you is links to groups about their friend Steve who will shave his head if the group gets 100,000 members. Why would you do that Steve? Why is 100,000 people in a group your reason for shaving your head? Just get a fucking 8–ball and stop wasting my time you prick.