This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chapel Hill chapter.

How many times have you gone to YouTube to check out a video but end up procrastinating and checking out the most bizarre videos? Yes, I bet the answer is many times.

You start with one video, and then you watch another one relatively similar to the first, until you find yourself watching a video completely irrelevant to the first one. But wait, that’s not all, you end up finding some of the most pointless videos of all, a mixture of weirdness, randomness and stupidity. That’s the power of YouTube.

Let’s say you start with the Hilarious “Don’t judge too quickly” Ameriquest series video. It doesn’t get smarter than this when it comes to commercials, and we can all get the message: don’t judge too quickly. Now let’s see where this is going to take you.

Then you find this one: Top 5 adverts YOU WANT TO SEE THIS!!. This video features a commercial for salmon, for a sports brand, for an airline, etc. But if you manage to get to the end of this video, you will realize that in the fifth video, things start to get a little weird. A commercial featuring aerobics, with the actors pretending to act sensually, but not quite accomplishing, FAIL. This is definitely an advertisement you do not want to see in a video that features clever ideas.

Next step in our strange exploration of YouTube: With more than four million views, Office lady shows everything. This video is worth watching, she doesn’t only show everything, she makes copies of everything. The advertisement definitely honors the Dutch raunchy sense of humor.

American humor and creativity could not be absent from this YouTube journey. With more than 2 million views, compared to the previous video, this one goes down in views but not in humor. Bikini girl harshly interrogated by the police.

Now if you click on Hot For Teacher, you will find yourself with a video that has more than 19 million views, five thousand dislikes and about four minutes of your life wasted. YouTube keeps getting weirder.

But hey, it’s not like you have a paper due tomorrow, well maybe you do; just click on the Funny SOldiers. No explanation will make justice to this video.

The videos just keep getting better. I found myself clicking through four other videos after the Funny Soldiers one, but none of them will represent YouTube’s weirdness more than Funny Pictures from around the internet. This website was definitely created for stupid people to post stupid, but hilarious, things, and for the rest of us to laugh at them.

What will be weirder than a compilation of drunken people? Well, YouTube offers that service too. The website is full of such compilations, with some bizarre pictures, all of them embarrassing. The drunk fail video will not only serve your procrastination interests, it will direct you to other kinds of fails like Party Girl – Despite the Virus (Trotz des Virus), the one girl we all laugh at, the one whose life will always be haunted by this video, which has more than one million views.

That’s how you go from watching an advertisement for a mortgage company to a compilation of drunken people, most likely girls; yes, this is YouTube’s weird side.

Exploring YouTube’s Weird Side

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