Here's a nice example of someone successfully phishing on Youtube, and not with 12 year old girls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lse2E6ZQSVg&feature=related

I'm a big fan of this type of phishing and would like to see more of it (though, with age appropriate women and not with the type of fraudulent promises we've seen in the past). Granted, your success rate is gonna be pretty low, but if you're reasonably clever, you'll find gold here and there.

Eh... It's still a bit underhanded no matter how you justify it. But I suppose if you want to get off for free, and she wants to become (Internet) famous, then it's a win-win. (Lose-lose??) On the plus side, as you said, no one's attempting to pose as a photographer promising thousands of dollars to gullible 12 year-olds willing to pie themselves in the face.

Personally, if I was this girl, I'd be pretty pissed I was doing all these stupid "dares" for a piddling 320 views.

--Rich

Didn't you know daring is the cool thing to do on youtube. There's literally like whole channels of people who do dares. And people who think that oh its fun and not realizing that someone is getting off on the vid.

But in all purpose, we can't stop it. So my rant makes nothing out of it but I think if someone is trying to get famous doing youtube dares. They're dumb anyways. It never works like that and most of the famous people on youtube are bleeping stupid in my book

Bit slow here but people request dares in the hopes people will watch their videos which some how lead to fame?

It's also just another effect of once face to face activities becoming internet activities. Much like how we once met dates at places called "bars" or even "classrooms," and at one point when we wanted to play a video game with someone we actually had to have them come over to our houses, tolerate their company for hours at a time, AND fork over the extra cash to buy a second controller for them to use. Now everyone does these things via the net. Well truth or dare has also made its way to being an internet activity, and some of these channels actually do encourage you to send them questions so that they can do a truth segment (sad to say that I have seen one, and the questions are even more lame and/or fucked up than the dares). My guess is that some people don't like the idea of answering personal questions on a forum where anyone can not only hear, but see their faces, so many stick with the dares. As for why it is mostly 12 year olds who do it? Well, think about it, when was the last time you got together with friends for a game of truth or dare? The reasons so many people are doing this are simple: 1. they think that it is fun. 2. it's a fad, and we all know how kids are with fads.

Didn't even watch the video before replying and just saw that she does a truth segment too. Damn, this thing really is catching fast. Maybe it's just me but I don't see the fun in playing truth or dare by yourself. Wasn't the whole point of playing to see who would go the farthest or do/answer the craziest dare/question? Eh, whatever.