YouTubers won't have Clarus Bartel to kick around anymore. The Italian uploaded YouTube video "CANSEI DE SER SEXY Music is My Hot Hot Sex," and it eventually became YouTube's most popular ever, with over 100 million views by last count. But the Barry Bonds of YouTube was hounded by accusations of cheating his way to the top. The evidence: Only 1 in 21,487 YouTube viewers rated the video. The typical YouTube ratio is 1 rating per 590 views. Hordes of Internet users took up the complaint and harassed Bartel, urging him to pull the clip from the site. He finally has. "I was fed up," Bartel said in an email to the Sydney Morning Herald. "I am not interested in the first place if this is the price I have to pay." Nobody said it would be easy, Clarus.

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