Because it’s the name of a song with over a billion views:
You may recognize it from its first lyric, “Hello darkness my old friend”, which has also been a meme.
I don’t think anyone has actaully gotten in trouble over an achievement name though.
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Never heard of that song before. And yeah such an achievement name would be no problem
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Neither have I. In fact, there are probably a lot of “billion views” songs that I have never heard of before.
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Perhaps we’re not just the kind of people to listen to such songs. On youtube atleast.
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Keep in mind most songs have massively inflated view counts compared to other videos because people tend to rewatch them a lot.
A more realistic number of unique listeners would be closer to the tens of millions to lower hundred millions if generous. Still a lot but not really world shaking.
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Perhaps they could implement a system where repeated views don’t get counted… Oh wait, they’re more interested in making the site worse and not better.
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yeah referencing the name of songs is generally not part of normal copyright law. if i remember issues with using names would only crop up using the names of registered trademarks, and every generic walmart brand medicine gets away with saying “compare to NameBrand tm*” by having that * point to “*NameBrand tm is a registered trademark of PharmaGiant and all rights go to them” on the bottom of the bottle, so i suspect thats easy to work around.
I mean genuinely the view counter is a counter of views nor viewers. There should be a viewer count but yk. youtube thinks features are for boomers and the only thing worth adding is slower javascript and shorts.
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It’s like they’re asking to have a proper successor/replacer come about
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i BELGIUMING WISH, sadly they have a monopoly, with literally billions of hours of content it would be illegal and impractical to scrape, and impossible to get everyone to transition away. I’ve tried, but like, invidius has server scarcity, bandwidth limits, and even with a nice frontend like freetube you can subscribe to people with, you can’t post comments and livestreams are kinda busted. nebula is much better but it has like, 120 creators and like, 5 exclusive things, too tiny, im still subcribed for it, but thats just cause i had money last fall and the yearly plan was a good deal. I think luois rossmann was doing something to aggregate across platforms to enable people to transition to being not exclusively youtube safely, which is smart, but idk it was weird and had a paid version i didnt understand. It seems like megacorps dont want to fight either, theres much safer money to be made in a tiktok clone than a youtube clone. tiktok is not a monopoly, theres shorts and reels and non-american stuff too, but a tiktok clone is much less powerful and freeing than a youtube clone
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I think it’s time to get back on topic.
The Superior Starfish: Detonate a nuke in space
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Is this a reference to something I am unaware of?
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You are correct.
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i was so close!!: died for ATP depleted just a few inches of sugar/iron/sulfuric acid…
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I think it was said “negative” achievements like this wouldn’t be added
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Ohhh…that’s bad!! ok, time to think new achievements..hmm…error 404: ideas not found.
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It isn’t your duty to make achievements?
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He’s dead, Jim - Have members of your species die during a rocket crash.
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Everywhere at the end of time: Cure Dementia
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Wooimabouttomakeanameformyselfhere - Make your species have a heavy Cajun accent and be able to throw/use energy projectile weapons.
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Marum Nostrum: As a country envelop a large aquatic body in society+ stages
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