On August 6th I discovered that one can upload a video into Google Drive and easily embed the link on a website, as I did here on August 6th.  This way it’s possible to show a video on your website without everybody instantly seeing on youTube that it has not begun to go viral.

It is a neat workaround, since on youTube disabling ‘make video statistics visible on the watch page’ does not seem to make video statistics invisible on the watch page.

I’ve spent several hours today, on four computers, on macs and my PC, trying to recreate the simple step of cutting out an embed code for a video uploaded to Google Drive.  If I hadn’t done it so easily here, on August 6th, I’d think I dreamed it.  You can click on the link to Animation by several creative adults to see what I’m talking about.

Google has a helpful link posted on the help subject of embedding a video from Google Drive.  It takes you to a forum, begun in 2012 and extending to the present, where frustrated users complain bitterly about the lack of functionality while others try to find semi-satisfying workarounds to this perplexing situation.

If it’s not the humans, forgetting to wash their asses for days on end, and insisting on dancing vigorously in the tiny, airless room, it’s the humans who program the computers, or the computers themselves, or the companies who hire the humans who do these things, or don’t.