Agallah claims Jordan Tower is a culture vulture and demands unreasonable payment from artists in order to get a video featured on his site. Could it be that this young but popular video aggregator has realized the best way to get paid is to sell placement? Or is this a shrewd marketing ploy by 8-Off to catch some free publicity for his upcoming album, Red Velvet?
Agallah appears calm and collective as he blasts Jordan Tower for over 5 minutes and does a great job at insinuating the entrepreneur is an extension of the white man’s pillage. He points out, and rightfully so, that you should never pay to get your content on a site like World Star, since you could so easily post it for free on youtube. And if it’s any good, urban video aggregators like WSHH and VladTv (which seems on it’s way to becoming SRCtv) or OnSmash should feel compelled to download the flash file and re-upload it illegally to their site anyway.
But you know, it almost makes sense to me ’cause I really did wonder why so much garbage gets posted on WSHH. But if any wakness monsta can pay for exposure, then there you go. It sounds sort of like a music video ponzi scheme. The more wak stuff you post, the more your site looks like it’s doing something which adds value and the more people want to get there stuff on your site. Is it really a coincidence that most of the comments I’ve read on there are people hatin’ on what they’re watching (to be fair, I can only claim to watching a handful of videos a month on there). Then again, it could also be like my beautiful wife says, I have terrible taste in music and most of it is good, but let’s not get into that, ’cause that’s just crazy talk.
Oh, and the point about people incriminating themselves with that smokeathon.com craziness. I don’t know much about the criminality of publicizing weed or smoking on camera but seriously, it doesn’t really help the moderation argument for legalization. My vote would be to fall back. But like most issues in this country, I have no vote.
