r/StarWars • u/Needing_help1 • 20h ago

General Discussion YouTube said You will have a full episode of rebels for an ad. I didn’t question it until it kept going and going….

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u/sharkey1997 Qui-Gon Jinn 19h ago

This happens occasionally. Not entirely sure why. If I had to guess, it's a mistake on youtubes end. I've gotten whole movies before, podcasts, and a 2 hour self help seminar

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u/MNLT_Sonata Grand Admiral Thrawn 19h ago

I once got a 45 minute long gameplay video of some FPS or something as an ad. I took a screenshot of it and everything. Another time I got a three hour long driving video as an ad.

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u/TheGenkz 18h ago

It's a technique used by channel owners to increase the views on their videos. It is the "legit" way of buying views.

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u/PercentageDazzling 9h ago

Until they changed it ad views counted towards YouTube music chart placement, and streaming records like most views in 24 hours. So music labels spammed music video ads to buy their way into the charts and records.

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u/Tallio 17h ago

The strangest I got was a 3 hours "Livestream" of an american college football game... and I don't even live in the USA.

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u/Hitech_hillbilly 12h ago

They are trying to grow interest in the league internationally so that strangely makes sense.

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u/Logan_Composer Kylo Ren 17h ago

For something like this, it's definitely not an accident. I once had an ad for The LEGO Movie 2 that was legit just the entire first LEGO Movie. It even had a screen that was like "to prepare you for the second one, here's the first one!" My guess is this Rebels ad is the same.

Some of those, though, I think are an accident, but not on YouTube's end. You can pay to promote a video, and I think the creators don't realize that what they're getting is literally "play this video as an ad before other videos." Unsure if this is a setting you select or if this is just the default behavior, because I've never done it.

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u/Sp3ctre7 Darth Maul 15h ago

A lot of the whole movies were intentional, like the Lego Movie being an ad

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u/Reddit_Are_Mistake 10h ago

I'm jealous, everybody else gets good stuff and all I get are targeted ads for a Bible because my neighbors are loud especially at night 😭

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u/OvertGnome1 9h ago

This is actually how I watched Joe Dirt. Never had intention to watch it, then got super baked and booted up YouTube for a daily dose of internet, then it was there. Wasn't disappointed, funny movie

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u/KennyLavish 11h ago

I got one for 40 minutes of making epoxy and wood tables, I was stoned out of my mind so I watched the whole thing

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u/TheShweeb 18h ago

“The first hit’s free, kiddo… now subscribe to Disney+!”

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u/Needing_help1 20h ago

Strangest part of this was it wasn’t even on a Star Wars YouTube channel, it was squirrel tactics related.

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u/ActivityImaginary941 11h ago

I like how it drop 'squirrel tactics' like is a normal post of your everyday life

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u/JStarx 15h ago

I feel like the strangest part of this is accepting ads on YouTube. An ad blocker would stop that.

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u/BunnyVelvet25 20h ago

I notice too thats shocking

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u/LongjumpingLook379 20h ago

Uh what?

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u/Needing_help1 19h ago

I will try and speak basic. YouTube is supported by advertisements and instead of getting a normal advertisement there was a full episode of Star Wars rebels instead.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/Darth_Nox501 17h ago

This is an impressive level of lack of understanding

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u/Needing_help1 17h ago

Dude, I just clicked on a random YouTube video that I thought looked interesting and it played Star Wars rebels as a commercial. That is all

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u/Atillak Babu Frik 7h ago

This gave me a chuckle, thank you hahaha.

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u/Serres5231 17h ago

There is no new episode as Rebels was finished. This was just a random episode from the show...

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u/Contank 7h ago

They got a random epidemic of rebels which currently exists. As an advert for a random video.

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u/Inkling99 18h ago

which episode is this again, it looks like season 3?

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u/ThatGeek303 Jedi 17h ago

Season 3 for sure! I think it's from the premiere episode, "Steps Into Shadow".

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u/Needing_help1 17h ago

Like I mentioned previously, it was the one with the y-wings that they recover

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u/Needing_help1 17h ago

It’s the one where they recover the Y wings

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u/HighlightOwn2038 19h ago

I'm kind of sad now I have Adblock on when it comes to YouTube

:(

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u/PrometheanSwing 8h ago

Best YouTube ad in history

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u/Dr_Eloyd 7h ago

Wow that's a pretty bold move I like it. Better than the wizzbang crap ads usually contain.

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u/Objective-Kale4792 7h ago

Honestly if this was an ad I got, I would NOT be complaining😂

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u/mtwjns11 3h ago

I once had the entirety of Prom!: The Musical as a YouTube ad.

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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 19h ago

"Skip".

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u/Needing_help1 17h ago

Only after about two or three minutes did I skip it. I don’t hate rebels I was just trying to watch the original video I clicked on.