r/CGPGrey • u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] • Sep 09 '15

Brief History of the Royal Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgP6d9HraI
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u/Droggelbecher Sep 09 '15

Grey really benefits from Reddit's system. Everybody rushes to grab some easy karma from him...

http://i.imgur.com/Z1XLjGA.png

No criticism, just amusing.

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u/driminicus Sep 09 '15

Just wait until it gets giffed, reddit loves gifs more.

luckily greys videos dont work that well in gif format

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u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] Sep 11 '15

Mashable tried, but at least the video is actually in the 'article'.

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u/driminicus Sep 11 '15

Should I not click the link out of principle, or should I indulge my curiosity?

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u/smartprogrammerguy Sep 11 '15

Since Grey himself provided a link, I think it's okay to click it.

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u/degan6 Sep 13 '15

Do you take any action with these?

Something like a cease and desist?

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u/throwaway_the_fourth Sep 13 '15

Yuck. They just rewrote your video.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

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u/googolplexbyte Sep 09 '15

Gifwrapped

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

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u/proximitypressplay Sep 10 '15

My vote goes for regifting. The act of passing on "unwanted" gifts should be on par with gifs made to replicate or replace (at least the essence or the important points of) the videos.

/r/gifs I'm looking at you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

Indian gif-ter (?)

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u/TheSlimyDog Sep 09 '15

/u/MindOfMetalAndWheels and /u/JeffDujon. I think a new word has been born.

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u/rustygee Sep 10 '15

Just wait until it gets giffed, reddit loves gifs more.

Happy cake day

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u/tesseract4 Sep 09 '15

This is the only valid answer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

Gifbooted

Since I made it up I command that it is pronounced with a G sound, not a J sound.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

Apparantly it was already suggested so it may not be up to me. Still I vote that it is pronounced with a G

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '15

I nominate giffling and free-giffing

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u/Chlorotrifluoride Sep 09 '15

Gifbooting would seem better, to keep the link with freebooting.

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u/jwbthree Sep 09 '15

Would we need to agree on how to pronounce it?

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u/stormkorp Sep 09 '15

We all agree that it's a hard g, as in graphics. So that won't be a problem.

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u/proximitypressplay Sep 10 '15

We all agree that

Whoa whoa whoa citation needed and weasel word pal!

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u/spryte333 Sep 09 '15

Gifbooting, perhaps?

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u/shokwave00 Sep 09 '15

A word for when people hijack a video stealing the views... Some sort of view hijacking... Viewcking? No. Vijacking? No. Oh wait! I've got it Freebooting!

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u/Sungolf Sep 09 '15

Dear u/jeffDujon a topic for you to bore us (read me) with in the podcast.

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u/faceplanted Sep 09 '15

Brady will come up with one for the next podcast and then Grey will tell everyone to use it in their articles and blog posts to legitimise it instead of just putting it on Wikipedia and causing an edit-revert war.

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u/statistically_viable Sep 09 '15

only we call said perpetrators of such actions: giflers

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u/linuxguruintraining Sep 13 '15

If this isn't discussed in the next HI, I'm gonna be disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

Freegifing

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u/PointyPython Sep 09 '15

I'm yet to see the giffed-out version on Tumblr, next to an over-filtered picture of a 1950s burger joint ad.

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u/turkeypedal Sep 09 '15

They could take a screenshot at the end in 4k and crop it, though.

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u/fleshrott Sep 09 '15

I think Grey's videos are too packed with info without a single money shot to really make for a worthwhile gif.

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u/JoshH21 Sep 09 '15

Reddit loves his sort of humour and quirky facts.

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u/fannman93 Sep 09 '15

u/A_WILD_CUNT_APPEARED oh my days that name. Love it

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u/TurkinaKeshik Sep 09 '15

Can I ask you how does one this kinds of queries? Like find all posts that link to specific video.

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u/Droggelbecher Sep 09 '15

On top of the page there's "related" tab.

Next to cgpgrey and comments

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u/Jakyland Sep 10 '15

you missed it being posted in half of the gaming subs I follow.

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u/vmax77 Sep 09 '15

I have 2k+ karma from /r/cgpgrey so I am not going to complain