YouTube divorcee in new rant

Tricia Walsh-Smith, the divorcee who shot to fame after spilling the details of her marital split on YouTube, is back again.

This time her rant is not aimed at her ex-husband but at Google, YouTube, spammers and airport security for making her take off her shoes.

Walsh-Smith had returned to YouTube to start promoting her newly-formed record company. She claims that spammers and YouTube are conspiring against her by freezing the video count on her account.



She declined to partner with YouTube at first, but then decided to allow YouTube to show ads. However, she is not happy.

"Being a YouTube partner is awful, because they go and screw up your video by putting crappy, crappy ads all over your videos. I'm going bonkers video, I didn't allow it," she wails to the camera.

She then calls on Sir Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson to set up a rival to YouTube, seemingly unaware that services such as Vimeo do exactly that.

Walsh-Smith also likes to think of herself as a YouTube pioneer, claiming she laid the way for the Queen and Obama's YouTube channels.

"I was the one that opened up YouTube for people like me, before it was just for the kids and whoever and now the President of America is on it, the Queen's on it!" she says in the video.

YouTube isn't the only source of Walsh-Smith's malcontent. "I'm fed up of things being fun and then being ruined. Once upon a time I could got to an airport and walk through. Now I have to take my damn shoes off."

"People spoil everything" she says, before adding: "Google give me my damn hits back and sort out my original divorce video."

YouTube does not comment on individual videos but in a recent post on the YouTube blog, it said: "Recently, we found spamming issues associated with the view counts on a small number of videos.

"The inflated view count number on these videos will be frozen until actual views catch up to the published, artificial, view count," the post continued.

Smith's latest rant, uploaded on 23 March, isn't setting YouTube's video count alight. Only 417 people had viewed her video at the time of writing on her channel, FedupWalshSmith.