In other words, watch mine.

When I signed up, I never really had any interest in winning in the first place. Instead, I saw a chance for me to make something much better than I had done in the past(which was before earning the Featured title), so I had to take it.

And as far as ideas and copying other poops are concerned, I tried to stay away from that, but rather, brainstorm an idea, let my ideas come to life(with what technological capabilities are available at my disposal), and just spend some time with it.

The end result? Sure, the view count isn’t very high, but I was shocked to see the good reviews, comments, favs., and subscriptions coming in so far. At that point, I felt like I actually created a worthy Youtube Poop for the first time and should make more poops just like it, with more time, effort, and planning for original and creative ideas.

Prize? I don’t need no stinkin’ prize! Just the thought of knowing that I entertained those who watched my video. And that’s just what I got.

The idea that some one can create something perfect is of course absurd which exactly why it’s the perfect name for this contest. The concept can only exist as as opinion so the best way to measure that is good hard numbers.

So many Poopers (or artists in general) get real hang ups about perfection it’s good to point the finger at it as an idea and laugh. The fact that many poopers care about views (and feel guilty for doing so - like shamefully enjoying a Big Mac) means that for once they can get all their validation issues and whore their work out using whatever creative means that that can.

Your suggestion that the popular videos will be copied is well founded however but surely that’s going to happen regardless of this contest. Given that all of these videos are correctly tagged it should mean that we can break the current youtube search results which is still dominated by cdi remixes. I’d rather people copy the videos that are in this chart (any of them) than last years old poop favourites, wouldn’t you?

Most people who’ve entered have noticed and increase in subscribers - and that means the collaborative element of this event is working out. Viewers are being made aware of other poopers and of the breadth and depth of originality and creative that enriches Poop culture.

So stop your moaning and get your entry in soon - that way there’s far greater chance that it’ll get mistaken for perfection.

You can’t define the “perfect” one by which has the most views. World of Warcraft is the most popular adventure game in the world, but is it as good as say, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? That’s debatable, and anyone with an unbiased view would probably say Ocarina of Time is the better game.

And really, I think that when we start ranking these, we’re doing more harm than good to YouTube Poop, since others will simply imitate the most popular ones, rather than viewing the good with the bad and drawing their favorites from each, which makes the genre constantly changing, while displaying one as being “the very best” will lead to a far more slowly evolving art form, if not outright stagnation.

Consider a site like Newgrounds… You have a number of creative, original flash toons ranked as the greatest of all, based on score. The good flashes account for perhaps 10% of all the content of that site, while the rest are the poorly-concieved “tributes”(that is, complete rip-offs) of those few good ones. If we want to prevent this from happening to YTP, we must not rank one as greater than another in any official way.