Please note this is posted by Djarums, ATS Member, NOT Djarums ATS SuperModerator. I'm posting my personal views and a question from ME.

As a longtime member of ATS and someone who has always been interested in alternative topics and discussions I have seen dozens of threads posted claiming to show video of "so and so" morphing into a reptilian etc.

Now, for full disclosure, while I do enjoy discussing alternative topics I have always found this topic to be a little bit "out there". That said, I've always respected other people's opinions. My opinion is that these claims are a bit outrageous. But hey, that's just me.

My question about these threads is actually a really simple one. Please bear with me for a moment and consider the following points.

You'll notice that these threads are always about famous people. Whether it's a prominent politicians, a news reporter, a celebrity, or whoever, it's always someone who would be considered "famous" or "influential" which I'm sure feeds the theory that there is something sinister about them. We never really see videos titled "random person in the street turns into lizard" or anything like that. It's always someone well known, which brings me to my next point.

Anyone who is familiar with today's popular culture, especially in the United States and England, is quite familiar with the fact that most celebrities are having photographs and videos taken of them nearly 24/7, which brings me to my next point.

All of the video of these people is archived these days. Every newscast, every soundbite, every blurb having anything to do with these "newsmakers" is archived by various sources. This brings me to my actual question...

Why is it that every single time someone presents a thread about "so and so" being a reptilian is the evidence some third rate, horrible quality, knock off, faded out, pixellated, blurry, boxy, horrendous YouTube Video?

Do you mean to tell me that no better quality is available? Baloney! If I was watching CNN (for example) and I noticed Anderson Cooper's nose change shape you can be pretty darn sure that I'd hit the DVR up real quickly, or better yet, order a copy of the program from the network. YES, did you know that you can almost always request a copy of a television program from the network? Did you know that the networks keep ALL of their programs on tape? Yes, every one of them. Now, you may reply to me by saying "well, they charge 20 dollars for it", but come on now... if I had seen something that would change everyone's perception of reality I'd surely pay the 20 dollars for it. Wouldn't you?

But no... instead all we get is the youtube garbage quality that I described earlier with too many adjectives to repeat. So what happens with the youtube videos? What's wrong with the youtube videos? Well, what happens is that because they are of such pathetic quality, the immediate arguments presented are related to that very video's quality. Digital noise, garbling, warped pixels, etc. It is impossible to refute those arguments because they're RIGHT!!! The videos suck! Show me the Queen of England or The President "shapeshifting" in full screen 1080p quality and then we'll have something to talk about. Video hosting? Hell, if you find someone morphing into a lizard on REAL quality video, the offers to host it will come from everywhere. I'll pay for the damn thing to be hosted.

In this day and age of video being everywhere and everything being saved I can NOT understand this bizarre phenomenon of people uploading their supposed evidence of something potentially earth shattering in horrendous quality. Why do this? If you're trying to PROVE something or to EXPOSE something or to REVEAL something, then put in the effort and do the job. By simply pasting artifact riddled videoclips that are worse than a 10 dollar cellular phone's camera you are contributing nothing to what you're claiming to be your cause. Unless that's not the motivation at all...

I'd appreciate any input people have on this, perhaps unusually long post for me, but something that had been bugging me for a while. Any comments will be appreciated, and again I certainly don't mean to insult or pick on anyone this is something that I personally want to ask.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread324370/pg1

It is an insane idea, with as you say NO credible evidence to it in the least.
Not worth discussing...in my opinion.

He makes one valid point: YouTube videos and similar videos on other sites suck.

I do not know how people make do with YouTube when the image quality (and sound) is worse than broadcast television has been for many decades.

Well, most free video editing software turns out crappy quality video, especially if the person doing the editing doesn't have a high end computer.

also, bad quality is kind of a rorschach test: you can see pretty much whatever you want to see.

So you meant all the Youtube and othews' sources are not in high (Definitions) quality as good as CNN or CBC ..and why do people keep watching to blurry ...sh**ty videos on online broadcaster like Youtube ??
I have an explain for you DMX1985 ..becasue the people whose upload their own videos .. musics...etc..to youtbue they did it with their own ( can be cheap) equipments which are NOT as always compare to the high tech equipments and crews from the famous broadcasters ...
DMS1985 .. Can you give Me the best equipment out there and I can guarantee for you the images ..Videos are as good as you can see in high definitions... Beside it ..they are amateur people not professionals ( some of them are )
have you got it now ??? and I don't even know why you are having this topic for discussing ??/ :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: Yet just my thoughts :laugh: