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Cock-in-a-SockYou’ve got a great idea for a viral video on YouBoob. You’re going to tie your naked mate to the roof-racks of a Sixties Mini and fang down the High Street while some other clown films you. What a laugh. Bound to get you a few hits. But if you really want it to go ballistic there's a trick you should know. A trick that's been around for awhile and now every man and his dog is flogging it. But it stills works. Bigtime.

What you need to do is put a boobie thumbnail picture up - a Triple-D Cup that will get all the horny little YouTubers out there going Phoar! and reaching for their...well...mouses...to click and play your crappy video. Yes it's false pretences but it works a treat.

How do you do it? Just put a still frame at the centre of the video and YouTube uses that as the default thumbnail image.

Lately we've seen a veritable plethora of the old boobie-as-a-thumbnail trick. And this week we've had a triptych from a Tasmanian bozo going by the monicker of Blunty3000. His first two videos used boobie thumbnails - one got over a million views in 24 hours. He's an established YouTube Advertising Partner with a 20,000 Subscriber base. The third in the series was his pièce de resistance - not so much in views but in use of thumbnail. For this one he forwent the mammaries and instead had a full-frontal shot of his old fella housed in a sock. And he called it Cock in a Sock.

Amazingly it stayed up (the video I mean) for a couple of days in the Most Watched list with hundreds of thousands of hits until being flagged by the community and taken down. Seems YouTube were not amused. They can't have their Advertising Partners making dicks of themselves. But Blunty and his dick are still there, beavering away making money from views. How much is anyone's guess - the Partners have to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement when invited into the programme.

So the boobie thumbnail craze works...but it's bound to jump the shark soon. So maybe you need to get in quick to crack the bigtime on YouTube. Maybe use a naked scrubber tied to the roofrack...with a sock over her head...and call it Pimp Your Ride.

Oh and lookee lookee. Someone has uploaded a Blunty video from January this year. True colours or what. There's also a very entertaining page on this Nutjob here at EncyclopediaDramatica