M's new channels & reloaded videos & playlists

A description of M's YouTube channels and playlists


Channel Name Changes

When Google+ came along, YT channel owners were required to join Google+ if they wanted their channel names "verified," meaning certified to be who they say they were. M did that, changing the displayed channel name to that of her Google+ account, namely, Marina Orlova. It should be noted that the underlying username of M's user account, hotforwords, remained fixed; only the displayed channel name appearing on the Hotforwords videos changed.

The displayed name for her second, personal account, namely Hot4words, is unchanged and is not a verified channel.

The channel of an unrelated Russian actress, Marina Orlova, has user account of OrlovaMarinatv and a displayed channel name of Marina Orlova, but it is not verified.


New Channels

In both June and September of 2013, M added three Marina Orlova channels to her hotforwords user account. These were loaded with varying quantities of duplicates of the original hotforwords videos. Sometime in early 2014, one of the channels was suspended for violating YT's Terms of Service, and another was deleted, leaving one new channel in addition to the original.



Authorized User Accounts & Channels (The table format is: a user page followed by all the channels associated with that user.)



Authorized User Accounts & Channel Notes:
1. Official YT name.
2. Nickname of channel (first three characters of Channel ID) used by table author to distinguish between the two channels of the Marina Orlava account.
3. This channel has videos of M's personal life, which are generally not related to her commercial activities. With the switch to personal videos on Channel "UCq" in May, 2014, this distinction has been blurred.




User Page & Channel Pages

On any of M's videos, if you click the Channel Name—Marina Orlova or Hot4words—it is a link to M's page. But there are two types of such page, one based on the owner's name, called a user page and one based on a Channel ID, called a channel page.


Thus the first channels are "more equal pigs" than ones added later.

Note: The term "KGB Channel" as M uses it to label her latest series of videos is not a channel in the normal YT sense, but merely an attempt at branding.



Searching for Videos on YT

Duplicate videos appearing on multiple channels affects searching. If you search for a certain video by keyword(s) and the search results produce multiple appearances of the same video it results in viewer confusion. Which video is the video? Which one should you leave a comment on? Or should you enter the same comment on all of the channels?

As an example, the video Hot Chicks Playing Football? Fail is one that shows up in both the original and new channel (not all do, of course):




M's Official YT Playlists: (Others' playlists of M's videos are legion and are not included in the table.)


Playlist Notes:
1. A playlist URL consists of the watch code for the first video in the list followed by the list number, which begins with the letters PL. As the playlist plays, the watch code in the URL is replaced by that of the second and each successive video in turn. If a video in a list has been deleted, YouTube will, after a few seconds of halting on the video, proceed to the next video in the list.
2. The last video in this playlist has been withdrawn from public view by virtue of it being marked Private by M, so the true video count is 13.
3. The 7th video of this playlist is a duplicate of the 6th, so there are actually only six unique videos in the playlist, so the true video count is 6. The 7th video is likely an error.
4. This playlist originally consisted of 84 videos, but is currently empty—all videos are marked "Deleted." Don't try to play it; YouTube will cycle through all 84 empty slots in turn.
5. The 64th and 65th videos in this playlist have been withdrawn from public view by virtue of them being marked Private by M, so the true video count is 68.





Unuthorized User Accounts & Channels

YouTube can and does generate, by automated methods, channels called Topics. This is the description of M's Topic:

Marina Vladimirovna Orlova is a Russian Internet celebrity who describes herself as a philologist. She is the host of a popular channel on YouTube, HotForWords and a corresponding website. In the early 2000s, she was a bi-weekly guest on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio. In 2012 she started an online series of videos for a personal finance website Bankrate.com where she explains the meaning of commonly used financial and economic terms. This channel was generated automatically by YouTube's video discovery system.

Authorized User Accounts & Channel Notes:
1. There appears to be no user page for this channel.
2. Stats and dates for this channel have no meaning, because the content is a compilation of videos from many channels.




General Notes:
1. Video titles may not be exactly the same word-for-word on each of the channels due to alterations when retyping titles in the new channel or to just mistakes.
2. This content was begun as a post in another topic and enlarged as it's own topic as things got more complicated.

Version: 20140531 2:34 PM PST --CampKohler
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